Rosatom and Helmholtz Association have signed memorandum of mutual understanding

19.09.2007 // Press service of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy

On Sept 18 2007 Rosatom and Helmholtz Association (Germany) signed a memorandum of mutual understanding

The sides have agreed to cooperate in the fields of science and technology.

The memorandum was signed by the deputy head of Rosatom Tatiana Yelfimova and the president of Helmholtz Association Jurgen Mlynek.

Particularly, the sides are planning to carry out joint research; to support international research projects; to jointly use research equipment; to organize symposiums, conferences, meetings; to exchange scientists, young specialists and scientific information.

The same day the Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEF) and Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (Society for Heavy Ion Research) signed an agreement on establishment of FAIR-Russia Center.

The agreement is aimed at establishing and developing mutually beneficial cooperation among the research groups working on the FAIR project (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research), particularly, in the fields of accelerator physics and technologies, nuclear and astrophysics, physics of plasma, hadronic physics, applied physics, physics of laser-induced high-speed processes, information technologies. 

The sides are also considering a number of new projects. Particularly, ITEF and a number of Helmholtz centers are planning to cooperate on production of nano-materials for power engineering.

Rosatom gives high importance to its cooperation with Helmholtz Association. It helps the Agency to train young specialists, to develop information technologies and to ensure Russia’s further integration into the world and European scientific and technological society.

Helmholtz Association is a community of 15 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centres. These centres have been commissioned with pursuing long-term research goals on behalf of the state and society. The Association strives to gain insights and knowledge so that it can help to preserve and improve the foundations of human life. It does this by identifying and working on the grand challenges faced by society, science and industry. Helmholtz Centres perform top-class research in strategic programmes in six core fields: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Structure of Matter, Transport and Space.