The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is an international intergovernmental organisation established in 1956 in Dubna to integrate the scientific and material potential of the member states of the institute to study fundamental properties of matter. The JINR includes 18 countries and six states that collaborate with it. Celebrations of the institute’s 60th anniversary in 2016 will help strengthen international scientific and technical cooperation, the credibility of one of the oldest international intergovernmental organisations and improving the social status of scientific activity.
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The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is an international intergovernmental organisation established in 1956 in Dubna to integrate the scientific and material potential of member states of the institute to study fundamental properties of matter.
The institute includes Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Agreements have been signed on the governmental level with Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and the Republic of South Africa.
The main fields of the JINR's activity are theoretical and experimental studies in elementary particle physics, nuclear physics and condensed matter physics. The institute’s experimental base allows for fundamental and applied research aimed at creating new nuclear and information technologies.
The institute participates in major international projects and research programmes on RHIC and Tevatron accelerators (USA), is involved in a project to create the International Linear Collider (ILC) and cooperates with the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in solving theoretical and experimental tasks of high-energy physics.
The staff includes about 4,500 people, 1,200 of whom are researchers, including members of national academies of sciences, 260 doctors of sciences and 570 candidates of sciences, and about 2,000 engineering and technical workers. The institute’s supreme governing body is the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the Institute Member States. Russia’s plenipotentiary for the institute is the Minister of Education and Science.
The 2016 celebrations of the institute’s 60th anniversary will help strengthen international scientific and technical cooperation, the credibility of one of the oldest international intergovernmental organisations and improving the social status of scientific activity.
No additional budget funds will be allocated for activities related to the 60th anniversary of the institute.