On 25 March, 2023, an opening ceremony of the new building of the JINR University Centre at 4A, Vavilov st. took place. The new building will host the Engineering and Physics Training for university students, as well as robotics and 3D printing classes for school students. It will also become a new home for the JINR UC Social Communications Group and the Physics Lab for schoolchildren.
The JINR UC moved to the building where the Dubna branch of MIREA had been located until 2015 and afterwards bought out by the Joint Institute. In 2021-2023, the building underwent major repair. Currently, the landscape design works around the building are in progress.
“I would like to thank all our design and construction services and the entire team of the University Centre. Today we have opened a facility that will be actively used by JINR, as well as by the city schools and JINR visitors,” JINR Director Grigory Trubnikov said at the opening ceremony.
Making the JINR UC accessible was the main reason to relocate it from the closed territory of the DLNP Site to the Institute Part of Dubna. The renovated building is located near another JINR place of interest – the Blokhintsev Universal Public Library, as well as the Kadyshevsky Physics and Mathematics Lyceum supported by JINR. “We are partially outside now, and, as a result, more schoolchildren and students will be able to visit us. We are becoming more accessible to the public”, Acting Director of the JINR University Centre Alexander Verkheev commented. He noted that events for schoolchildren, such as Physics Days and Hackathons held earlier in different places, would from now on take place in the new building.
In its new home, the JINR University Centre will continue developing the direction of scientific and educational activities for students and schoolchildren. The Engineering and Physics Training laboratories for students are on the third floor. They are equipped to study automation, vacuum technology, electronics, RF, and Medipix.
The specialists of the Department of Development of Educational Programmes organised a Physics Practicum for schoolchildren on the second floor. They will be able to reproduce basic physical phenomena and acquire skills in working with measuring instruments. On the first floor, in addition to the offices, there is a lecture hall and a video studio.
Thus, science has become even closer for those who have just started exploring it.
