Forts are skeptical about the idea of ??combining physical Research Institute - Reuters

TROITSK, August 6 – RIA Novosti. President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Forts skeptical about the idea of ??creating a large pool of Russian private institutions for the development of scientific megaprojects.

“I’m not a big forms, this is my point of view,” – told reporters Forts.

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RAS President answered the question as it relates to plans to create a new organization that would unite the physics institutes in Russia for the joint development of scientific megaprojects.

In turn, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Physical Sciences, Ivan Shcherbakov told RIA Novosti that the Academy has sent its proposals on the possible legal status of such a union. According to him, academic institutions oppose the creation of a new legal entity for such a union, proposing to restrict the establishment of an appropriate program.

spring of 2013 the heads of 15 leading Russian private institutions – the Kurchatov Institute, Siberian Budker Institute, the Special Astrophysical Observatory, ITEP, IHEP, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Troitsk Institute for Nuclear Research and the Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, JINR, and a number of others – have signed a partnership agreement in projects of development and use of research facilities mega-class.

Later, the head of the Kurchatov Institute Mikhail Kovalchuk, then president of Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov appealed to the government to consider the issue of “giving formal status of” this association. As expected, the government has until September 1 to present proposals on the future status of the project. When the documents have appeared in the press, many scientists began to talk about a possible takeover of physics institutes Kurchatov Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, as has already happened with ITEP, IHEP and PINP.