Experience of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research as an Example of International Scientific Cooperation in the Frame of Sustainable Development

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Researches (JINR) in Dubna has become the real space of international cooperation of scientists and a field of intellectual collaboration, co-influence of different cultures. JINR was and is one of the basic elements of sustainable development in Central Europe since the soviet period. Its activity in Dubna is the evidence of the fact that the result of joint efforts of peoples, governments and scientists produces synergetic effect in science, and in the process of international dialogue at all levels. The history of JINR is the way from a secret organization through recognition of the necessity for international interaction in a certain field (science) to the unique, integrated international environment, where the common human principles and values dominate, while the national peculiarities carefully preserved at the same time. In essence Dubna and JINR today are an example of inter-cultural communications covering all levels: from inter-governmental to interpersonal communication.