In June 2021, G.V. Trubnikov and Yu.Ts. Oganessian visited the Educational Center "Sirius", Sochi. During the meetings of the JINR leaders with the students of the Center, a number of children expressed their willingness to visit the Institute. On 23-25 September 2021, a delegation of Sirius students and their supervisors visited JINR.
During their stay in Dubna, the guests had a tour of various locations of the Institute: the Museum of History, Science and Technology, Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Laboratory of Radiation Biology, Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies, and Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics. Due to such an eventful programme, the members of the delegation had the opportunity to get to know JINR really well. At the end of their visit, the children took part in a competition dedicated to the JINR Member States. The competition was organised by the staff-members of the JINR Library.
In September 2021, JINR specialists Yu. Severyukhin, a researcher at the LRB Sector of Radiation Physiology, and D. Ponkin, a senior engineer at the VBLHEP Accelerator Department, guided online tours of their sectors followed by Q&A sessions with the students doing an additional module in science communications in physics, mathematics, and biology. In real time, the children could see the workplaces of JINR staff members, learn about fundamental and applied research in LRB and VBLHEP, and also get a glimpse of the NICA collider, while staying at the Sirius Center in Sochi.
The main goal of the Cooperation between JINR and the EC "Sirius" is to make it possible to identify talented young people, to assist them in their future personal development, education, and building a successful career in the field of science. To spread scientific knowledge, the Institute intends to hold a series of regular online and offline lectures for students of the EC “Sirius” during the academic year, as well as to participate in the major annual projects organised on the basis of the Centre.
