JINR hosts Teachers of Future workshop on project-based learning

News, 30 July 2025

On 26 July 2025, the 3rd Teachers of the Future educational and methodological workshop on project-based learning started at the JINR University Centre. The participants were students, teachers, and schoolchildren from different regions of Russia. The purpose of the event is to supplement the curriculum of educational programmes of natural science faculties with relevant knowledge in modern physics and to provide future teachers with main information about the research and engineering activities that implement advanced methodologies.

Among the attendees are students of physics, mathematics, and information technology departments of Moscow universities, ITMO University (Saint Petersburg), Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don), North Ossetian State University (Vladikavkaz), Far Eastern Federal University (Vladivostok), Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky), and Dubna State University, along with teachers from Rostov-on-Don and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and high school students from Protvino City District. Nineteen students are taught by five mentors from JINR and Moscow high-tech educational organizations. A representative of the JINR Information Centre in the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Republic of Kazakhstan is attending the event as well to get acquainted with innovative approaches in education under development at JINR.

The format of the event is a series of master classes, during which the participants work on the content of educational and research projects in physics, ecology, and applied mathematics for secondary school students.

After the workshop, which will last until 31 July, the participants will mentor the students of the 37th International Computer School (ICS), which will take place from 1 to 14 August at the JINR UC, the JINR Universal Public Library, and Kadyshevsky Physics and Mathematics Lyceum. More than 40 students of schools in Dubna, Kamchatka Krai, Primorye, Rostov-on-Don, and North Ossetia are expected to participate in the ICS. In addition to educational and research projects, the ICS programme will include lectures by leading researchers and popularisers of science from JINR, excursions, intellectual contests and events.