Cooperation between Russia and China in the field of fundamental science rests on a strong foundation. However, both the dynamic development of global science and current international realities are shaping new challenges for competitive cooperation in basic research. What are the areas of shared interest and the next steps towards strengthening cooperation? What difficulties are scientists from Russia and China encountering along the way? Is collaboration within a large research infrastructure the basis for long-term scientific and technical cooperation? How do practical results from joint basic research help to solve current socioeconomic problems?

Moderator:
Yury Marfin — Acting Rector, Pacific State University

Panellists:
Kirill Babaev —
Alexander Blagov — Vice President, Kurchatov Institute National Research Centre
Sergey Gulev — Head of Laboratory, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Stepan Kalmykov —
Vladimir Kekelidze — Vice Director, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Denis Sekirinsky — Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Chen Hesheng — Academician of the Academy of Sciences of China, Senior Researcher at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Academy of Sciences of China
Wu Zhaohui — Vice Minister of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China

The International Platform for Scientific and Technical Cooperation and Interuniversity Collaboration is aimed at providing organizational, methodological and informational support to Russian educational and scientific organizations in the development of interaction with foreign partners and international organizations. The platform functionality will provide for organizational, methodological and informational support to Russian educational and scientific organizations in the development of interaction with foreign partners and international organizations. The platform also has the potential to select candidates for training in Russia under the quota system, and subsequently, in the implementation of the grant support program.

Moderator:
Kseniya Trinchenko — Director of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education

Panellists:
Dmitry Babekin — Deputy Director of the Department of International Law and Cooperation, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation
Stepan Kalmykov —
Yury Marfin — Acting Rector, Pacific State University
Dmitriy Protasovskiy — General Director, Russian House of International Scientific and Technical Cooperation
Igor Fedorov — General Director, RC Complex Systems
Natalia Shafinskaya — Ph.D. in political sciences, adviser to the rector, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, head, Directorate for Unified Education Programmes, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration