On 14 September 2026, the opening ceremony of an Information Centre of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research took place at the Institute of Physics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (IOP VAST), Hanoi. The IC is designed to strengthen and expand cooperation between Vietnamese organizations and the JINR Member States. The event gave an official start to the JINR Days in Vietnam (14–16 September), timed to coincide with the Institute’s 70th jubilee and the 70th anniversary of the country’s membership in the international intergovernmental organization.
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Delegations of the Joint Institute, the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST), the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VINATOM) as well as leading national research centres and universities attended the ceremony.
In his welcome speech, Plenipotentiary of the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to JINR Tran Tuan Anh noted that over seven decades of partnership, the Institute not only ensured the continuity of generations of researchers but also established a high standard of scientific inquiry in the country. “I sincerely hope that the new IC will serve as a bridge between not only Vietnamese students, but also researchers from all Asian countries. As it develops, we will keep bringing active young people together and creating new working groups both in nuclear physics and in many other related disciplines”, Tran Tuan Anh emphasised.
JINR Director, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Grigory Trubnikov drew attention to the significant progress in collaboration between the Joint Institute and Vietnam’s academic community. He highlighted personnel training as a particularly important task due to the active advancement of Vietnam’s national nuclear programme. “The JINR Information Centre is a real quantum physics element, a kind of ‘quantum tunnelling’ between Hanoi and Dubna”, Grigory Trubnikov noted. “I am confident that its opening will lead to a new surge of interest in nuclear science, open up wide internship opportunities for young Vietnamese specialists, and attract dozens of future researchers and engineers to the industry”.
Practical mechanisms for the operation of the international network of information centres were discussed at a round table with the participation of the leadership of UC JINR, VAST institutes, VINATOM, Vietnamese universities, and partner organizations. The parties determined the main priorities of cooperation: deepening the horizontal interaction between existing information centres, ensuring open remote access to JINR’s experimental data arrays and publications, and organizing internships, scientific schools, seminars, and lectures for students and schoolchildren.
On the same day, chaired by the Plenipotentiary of Vietnam, a working meeting took place to discuss the project of the future VAST–JINR laboratory. Specialists of the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions and representatives of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology gave talks on the project’s scientific and technical potential, a possible concept for an accelerator complex – the laboratory’s main facility, and promising directions of joint studies.
On 15–16 September, the JINR Days in Vietnam continued with a series of events marking the 70th anniversary of cooperation and working visits of the Institute’s delegation to leading research organizations and relevant universities in Hanoi and Nha Trang.
