CREMLINplus project (Connecting Russian and European Measures for Large-scale Research Infrastructures) was supported within the EU Framework programme “Horizon 2020”. The coordinator of the project is DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron). The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (MSHE) supports CREMLINplus implementation, and especially activities within Work Package 8 (WP8).
MSHE supports the Russian research facilities (LIST 11) involved in the international cooperation – making it diverse, open and transparent.
In this regard the special attention was drawn to keep the constant high level of cooperation in achieving 2 key objectives of WP8 activities:
- To contribute to overcoming the barriers that prevent European scientists from accessing Russian research infrastructures (Russian RIs)
- To support Russian facilities in setting-up the appropriate access conditions
The possibility to cooperate while being in lockdown during COVID-19 crisis by highly appreciated by CREMLINplus project partners both from the EU and Russian sides. During April-June 2020 WP8 successfully held 5 Kick-off web conferences with the participations of all WP8 project partners and LIST 11. All presentations below:
Date | № | Organisation | Facility/ Presentation |
April 27 | 1 | National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” | The Kurchatov complex for synchrotron – neutron researches |
2 | Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | Pulsed fast reactor IBR-2 and IREN | |
3 | Institute of cytology and genetics of Siberian Branch of the RAS | Genetic Resources Center for laboratory animals | |
4 | Special Astrophysical Observatory of the RAS | BTA and RATAN-600 | |
May 6 | 5 | Federal Scientific Research Centre “Crystallography and Photonics” of the RAS | Shared Research Center of FSRC “C&F” “Structural diagnostic of materials” |
6 | Saint Petersburg State University | Research Park SPbU | |
7 | Joint Institute for Nuclear Research | Cyclotron complex and SHE Factory | |
8 | Institute for Nuclear Research; Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |
Unique scientific installation Baikal deep water neutrino telescope – Baikal-GVD | |
May 27 | 9 | National Research University Higher School of Economics | Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS-HSE) |
10 | The Joint Economic and Social Data Archive (JESDA) | ||
11 | Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov | Core Facility Center “Arktika” | |
May 29 | 12 | Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the RAS | Novosibirsk Free Electron Laser of terahertz range (NovoFEL) |
13 | Complex of electron-positron collider VEPP-4-VEPP-2000 for high energy physics experiments nuclear physics research experiments with synchrotron radiation | ||
14 | Complex of Long Open Traps | ||
15 | Siberian Synchrotron and Terahertz Radiation Centre | ||
June 11 | 16 | Federal State Budget Institution «National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after Academician V.I.Kulakov» of Ministry of Healthcare of Russian | Research – Biobank for Reproductive Biology and Medicine |
After strong and intensive collaboration within WP8 Kick-off webcons it was possible not only to build some new contacts within LIST 11 but to understand their preliminary expectations from taking part in WP8 activities.
Bearing in mind the high level of LIST 11 involvement WP8 set up some highlights concerning current LIST 11 vision of our joint future interaction:
- Enhancement of existing collaboration with the international partners
- Partner search
- Access policy development
- External and foreign users friendly access procedures development
- Increasing number of foreign users
- Flexible access policy for the users involved in CREMLINplus WPs
In the nearest future, WP8 is going to proceed with the LIST 11 self-assessment exercise to highlight and identify the main needs and challenges of the RIs access policy and evaluate the potential of access to Russian RIs for European researchers.
The general information on CREMLINplus and WP8 activities can be found in the following presentations:
Martin Sandhop – CREMLINplus general information
Irina Kuklina – WP8 highlights
Greta Facile – Information on ESFRI