On March 27, a delegation from the Brazilian Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research IPEN visited MEPhI ⚛️

😅The IPEN Institute (Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares) is a Brazilian research institute located in the city of Santos, Sao Paulo State. The Institute was founded in 1956 to conduct research in the field of nuclear and energy science.

😆 The main research areas of the IPEN Institute include: nuclear physics, energy, nuclear technology, radiation protection, laser physics and radiation processes. The Institute is also engaged in the development of new materials and technologies for use in energy systems, nuclear industry and other industries.

🤝The Brazilian delegation included Niklaus Ursus Vetter, Director of Research at IPEN, Isolda Costa, Director of Internationalization, and Romula De Castro, Chief Legal Adviser to Souza Lima.

😅😄 The meeting with the Brazilian delegation was attended by the rector of the MEPhI National Research University Vladimir Shevchenko, Vice Rector Dmitry Savkin, Director for the development of isotope business in Latin America of JSC V\O Isotope (enterprise of the Rosatom State Corporation) Alexey Kibalov and other representatives of the university.

📝 During the visit, representatives of the NRU MEPhI and IPEN re-signed a Memorandum of Understanding, which was signed for the first time in 2019.

👩🏼‍🎓🧑🏾‍🎓The meeting also discussed the launch of a joint educational program (2 diplomas) in the Nuclear science specialty.

🧑🏻‍🔬👩🏼‍🔬The guests got acquainted with the NRU MEPhI and visited some laboratories of the university, including the Nanocenter.

💙 The good relations between MEPhI and Brazil have become a good tradition, and we hope that soon we will meet not only delegations, but also students from Brazil

One of the most frequent questions from applicants is: where do students live during the studies? 🧐

👉🏼 Today we will tell you about one of the most important places for MEPhI students - student dormitories!

👩🏻‍🎓🧑🏾‍🎓All international students have the opportunity to live in dormitories on preferential terms: the cost per month starts from 1,500 rubles and does not rise above 5,000 rubles, depending on housing conditions.

So, let's tell! 😉

🏢 MEPhI dormitories are residential complexes that offer comfortable accommodation for students while studying at the university. Buildings are located near the main campus and provide various types of accommodation:
👉🏼 Bachelors and students of the preparatory course live in 2 and 3 bed rooms with shared bathrooms
👉🏼 Undergraduates and postgraduates can stay in apartment-type dormitories for 2 or 3 people in a room with its own kitchens and bathrooms

🛏️ The dormitories have everything you need for a comfortable stay: study rooms, kitchens, laundries, and, of course, furniture and household appliances. Some buildings have free gyms! All the buildings of the dormitories are in good condition after major repairs.

💁🏻‍♀️It is very important that the dorm department has a wonderful staff who is always ready to help students with solving all their problems! These are the guards, the commandants, the staff of the housing complex, and of course the director of the dormitories!

🤝Living at MEPhI dormitories is a great opportunity to meet new people and create a friendly support community. Here, students can participate in all kinds of activities, clubs and activities to diversify their leisure time.

🏠 Thus, MEPhI dormitories are a great place for young students, where they can get not only a shelter, but also a lot of positive emotions, new acquaintances and opportunities for self-realization!

💙 You can see more pictures of students life in the dorm in our VK

Every week at MEPhI is rich in international activities 👋

😉We are sharing the latest developments with you!

👉🏼 On March 29, a delegation from the Talent Exchange Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China visited us.

😆 The guests came to Moscow specifically to learn about the opportunities for the exchange of young specialists through annual internships at MEPhI and Harbin Polytechnic Universities in the fields of nuclear physics, biomedicine, IT and nanotechnology.

👉🏼 On April 1, representatives of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIOM) arrived in MEPhI on a second visit.

📄Rector Vladimir Shevchenko and SIOM Director Chen Weibiao signed a Memorandum of Understanding providing for mutual exchange in the field of higher education and scientific research. It is planned to develop joint research programs and joint use of research infrastructures, create joint research laboratories, organize bilateral symposiums and conferences, exchange students, as well as conduct specialized and comprehensive programs for bachelors, masters and postgraduates.

🤝As a result of the negotiations, representatives of the NRU MEPhI received an invitation to pay a return visit to the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics.

🌏 Leading Chinese universities and research institutes are actively interested in cooperation with MEPhI. Ties with Asian countries are becoming stronger every year!

✍️Where are nuclear technologies used today? ✍️

😆 When we hear about the use of nuclear technology, we almost always imagine a nuclear power plant or the defense industry.

☝🏼But nuclear technology is now spreading to a much wider range of industries.

That's what we want to talk about today ⚡

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⚛️ First of all, it should be said that MEPhI is the flagship university of Rosatom, which has been increasingly developing international cooperation in recent years. Rosatom is a member of many international organizations, including the IAEA, and participates in a number of international projects that are not always related to the construction of nuclear power plants ⚛️

🌿Agriculture. Nuclear technologies are used in agriculture mainly in the form of radioisotope radiation sources. They are used to sterilize food, such as meat, vegetables and fruits. They can also be used to increase the shelf life of products and improve their quality. Such technologies, with the assistance of Rosatom, are actively used in the countries of South America and Southeast Asia.

💊Medicine. Nuclear technologies are widely used in medicine for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. For example, radioisotope diagnostics is used to identify various diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and others. Therapeutic procedures such as radiotherapy use ionizing radiation to destroy cancer cells. Nuclear medicine also includes the production of medical isotopes, which are used to diagnose and treat various diseases. Today, Rosatom contributes to the development of nuclear medicine around the world by opening Research Centers and supplying isotopes to hospitals.

♻️Waste recycling. The most important part of the development of nuclear technologies is waste recycling. Rosatom is engaged in the processing of nuclear waste, including the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. The company is also developing technologies for the safe storage of nuclear waste and minimizing its environmental impact.

🌍It is with these areas that the professions of the future are connected, which will help improve the lives of millions of people on the planet!

🧑🏾‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓Graduates of the MEPhI National Research University become specialists in these fields!

🔝Power your future with MEPhI🔝

The delegation of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI is currently in New Delhi, the capital of India, where it is taking part in the Indian-Russian Education Summit (Indo-Russian Education Summit 2024) 🇮🇳🇷🇺

🥲 The task facing our representatives is to promote the university's educational programs in India. Elena Sarapultseva, MD, Professor, makes a presentation on "Nuclear technologies and biomedicine in MEPhI" (as part of the panel discussion "Cooperation between Russia and India in the field of medical education"), and Anna Rogova, Head of the Education Export Department, presents the topic "MEPhI – the leading Russian university in the field of engineering education" (at the round table "Technical Universities").

🎓 The summit is taking place on the territory of the Russian House in New Daily. The delegation of the NRU MEPhI also plans to visit a number of universities in the Indian capital.

⚛️ The purpose of the delegation is to introduce students from India to MEPhI, to talk about the flagship areas of training and the prospects that studying at our university provides.

🙂There are 2 more exhibition days ahead, we will definitely tell you how they are going!

Did you know that MEPhI is the basic university of the main space corporation in Russia? 👽

👨🏻‍🚀 Yes, indeed, MEPhI cooperates with Roscosmos. And today, on Cosmonautics Day, we want to tell you about the connection of our university with space!

🚀MEPhI formally became the main university of the Roscosmos State Corporation just 2 years ago, in fact, the university has always been one. Yuri Polyakov, Executive Director of Finance at Roscomos, is a graduate of MEPhI, and Yuri Borisov, General Director of Roscosmos, was previously head of the Electronics Department (No. 3) at MEPhI National Research University. Two cosmonauts Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Sergey Avdeev graduated from MEPhI.

💫We talk about MEPhI's space projects💫

🛰️ Satellites and engines for them. Vera and Lena plasma propulsion systems for nano- and microsatellites have been developed at the Laboratory of Rocket Plasma Engines of the Institute of Laser and Plasma Technologies of the MEPhI. Vera has already been tested in space. MEPhI also created the Svyatobor-1 satellite for monitoring forest fires, which was launched on June 27, 2023. It is planned to create a small innovative enterprise for the production of engines for satellites. The main buyer of engines from MEPhI is a Russian private space company.

🌞The NEVOD (that means in Russian ‘net’) catches cosmic rays. The unique scientific installation NEVOD is designed to study cosmic rays. It includes a number of physical installations and detectors that have no analogues in the world. The composition of the detectors is constantly being updated, and this year the vertical TREK detector will be finally assembled. At the end of March, employees of the REC NEVOD using the HURRICANE hodoscope may have been the first to record a unique solar flare — GLE-74.

⭐️What's inside the stars? One of the important areas of space research in which scientists of the MEPhI participate is laboratory astrophysics, studies of extreme states of matter similar to those that occur, for example, inside stars and during catastrophic astrophysical events. Of course, such research requires installations of the "megascience" class, therefore, the MEPhI can carry out such research only in collaboration with other organizations. So, in 2022-2023. MEPhI graduate students took part in an experiment at the BM@N installation as part of the Nuclotron-NICA scientific complex in Dubna near Moscow. During the experiment, conditions close to those that occur in space when neutron stars collide were recreated. These data are currently being analyzed – the first results will be reported at the ICPPA 2024 conference at the MEPhI in October this year.

☄️And this is not all that MEPhI does for the development of space science in Russia and in the world! Today we want to congratulate everyone involved on Cosmonautics Day! 🥳

👽MEPHI is the cosmic power of your future!