The scientists of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno will take part in a project to train personnel in the field of radiation protection and nuclear safety culture of the Republic of Belarus

23- 24 of November a kick-off meeting of the partners ot the project action RADIUM was held.
The working group of Yanka Kupala State University is represented by the staff of the Faculty of Physics and Technology. It consistes of the Associate Professor of the Department of General Physics, Project Manager Natalya Valko, the Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Technology Andrei German, Associate Professor of the Department of General Physics Andrei Lavysh, Head of the Department of General Physics Alexander Maskevich and the Professor of the Department of General Physics Natalia Strekal. During the kick-off meeting, the working groups of partner universities made presentations reflecting possible ways of implementing the main tasks of the project .The full project title “EU best practices-based education in Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Culture for the Belarusian Academia – RADIUM” reflects the main objectives. The project’s specific objectives are:
• Developing a new modular master program meeting the requirements of the labour market for the rapidly developing nuclear industry in Belarus and its infrastructure;
• Upgrading curricula for the second level of higher education at 6 universities of Belarus to ensure an advanced level of training in radiation safety and the development of nuclear safety culture in the society;
• Updating the competences in the field of nuclear knowledge by introducing new methodological support into the curricula and educational programs with close collaboration with EU Universities and adopting their experience, using advanced information and communication technologies, network interaction of the Partner Universities and the organizations-customers of personnel.

The project will be implemented for 3 years. The partners organizations are:
The University of Bologna – coordinator
Universitat Politécnica de Valencia - UPV
Hasselt University -UHasselt
Hochschule Mannheim University of Applied Sciences - HSMA
Belarusian State University
Belarusian State University Informatics and Radioelectronics
Polotsk State University
Polessky State University
Francisk Skorina Gomel State University
Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Associate partners:
Westinghouse Electric Germany GmbH (Germany)
SCK-CEN (Belgium)
Atomtex (Belarus)
Ministry of Education of Belarus (Belarus)
ConstFlash Brand “AR.TEAM (Belarus)