High End Research from Kharkiw This afternoon we are going to open the second Night of Sscience in Kharkiw. Kharkiw has about 300 000 students and more than 20 universities and institutes. The Night of Science is part of a city marketing concert to put the former Ukrainian capital on a top postion in Europes research and science hubs. In fact some of Kharkiws reserach contributes to latest high technology reserach. One of the events hosted in the frame of the Night of Science is FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion research in Europe). FAIR, Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research, is a new international accelerator facility for the research with antiprotons and ions. It is build in cooperation of an international community of countries and scientists. On october, 4th 2010, the international owners founded the FAIR GmbH and the countries representatives signed a treaty under international law (Convention, Final Act). The facility isfinanced by a joint international effort of so far ten member states. The Federal Republic of Germany together with the State of Hesse is the major contributor to the construction, the current nine international partners bear ca. 30% of the construction cost. FAIR will be a host laboratory for basic research for about 3000 scientists from about 50 countries, one of them is Ukraine with unique facilities in Kharkiw If you want to learn more about the FAIR partner countries and their collaborating institutes, please look at fair-center.eu/en/public/what-is-fair.html The conference on FAIR and a Roundtable during the companies are supported by German Ukrainian cooperation through German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the German Ministry of Science.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 06:32:14 +0000
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