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Russian scientists and ESRF strengthen cooperation

13-06-2008

PRESS RELEASE - The Kurchatov Institute in Moscow (Russia) and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble (France) have made a step towards a closer collaboration between the scientific communities of these two institutes. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on 11 June 2008 in Moscow to promote the different areas of this collaboration.

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The Memorandum foresees a joint research and development programme as well as exchange of scientists and scientific expertise with the aim of pushing forward common projects. In this framework, the two institutes will also organise joint workshops and conferences.

In his speech at the signing ceremony, the Head of the Russian Federal Agency for Science and Innovations, Prof. Sergey N. Mazurenko, emphasised the importance of scientific and technological links between the two laboratories. This statement was echoed by Prof. Michael V. Kovalchuk, the Director of the Kurchatov Institute. 

In his reply, the Director General of the ESRF, Prof. William G. Stirling, expressed his admiration for the achievements of Russian scientists using synchrotron light and his desire to see a long-term relationship develop with the Kurchatov Institute and Russian scientists.

Note for editors:

The Kurchatov Institute is a Russian national research centre, operating, among others, the Kurchatov Source of Synchrotron Radiation. It also has the role of head organisation on nanotechnologies in Russia.

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) is an international institute located in Grenoble (France) funded by 18 countries. It operates one of the world’s most powerful synchrotron light sources and hosts more than 6000 scientific user visits to 43 beamlines every year.

For more information, please contact Montserrat Capellas, ESRF press officer, at this e-mail or +33 476 88 26 63.

Top image: The Kurchatov Institute in Moscow.