Briefly

Educational project for African students

On 12 October, as part of the Quantum Computing and Machine Learning (QCML) workshop in Cairo, the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) held a meeting dedicated to organizing a joint internship for students from the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of South Africa.

Among the participants of the event, which served as a preliminary meeting of the responsible persons of the future JINR Joint School for Africa, were Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of Egypt at JINR, ASRT President Gina El-Feky, ASRT International Cooperation Coordinator Rana Refai, South Africa-JINR Cooperation Coordinator, Deputy Director of the NRF iThemba LABS cyclotron laboratory (South Africa) Rudolph Nchodu, Director of the JINR University Centre Dmitry Kamanin, and Deputy Head of the JINR International Cooperation Department Elena Badawy. Director of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies at JINR Sergei Shmatov, and MLIT Scientific Secretary Olga Derenovskaia took part in the discussion as invited experts.

Internships at JINR for students from Egypt and South Africa have always attracted a large number of young researchers from these countries, facilitating career guidance in future scientific endeavours and expanding the geography of JINR’s collaboration with universities and research organizations. The meeting participants discussed their experience in holding student internships and agreed to start preparing for the joint internship, synchronise student selection, conduct preparatory activities, and welcome a joint team of African students to JINR in the second half of June or early July 2026.

Details are on the JINR website.

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