JINR - Vereinigtes Institut für Kernforschung

Set up in 1956, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) is an international intergovernmental scientific research organization in the science city Dubna in the Moscow region.

JINR has at present 18 Member States: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cuba, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Kazakhstan, D. P. Republic of Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.

Participation of Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Republic of South Africa and Serbia in JINR activities is based on bilateral agreements signed on the governmental level. The Supreme governing body of JINR is the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of the governments of all 18 Member States.

JINR is deve­loping as a large multi­dis­cipli­nary inter­na­ti­onal scien­ti­fic centre incor­po­rating ba­sic re­search in the field of mo­dern nuc­lear physics, develop­ment and ap­plica­tion of high tech­no­logies, and univer­sity edu­cation in the relevant fields of knowledge.