The second General assembly of international network Regional Network for Education and Training in Nuclear Technology (STAR-NET) has been conducted under the aegis of the Institute of nuclear physics and technologies. STAR-NET is an international organization, created with an aim of development, management and saving of nuclear knowledge and guaranteeing qualified human resources in nuclear field in countries, whose educational organisations participate in this network, and the improvement of the quality of human resources for safe and stable usage of nuclear technologies.

STAR-NET network was created in September, 2015 as a part of IAEA General conference. This international regional network of nuclear education (an analogue of ENEN, ANENT), covering the region of the Eastern Europe and Middle Asia. The network has been created under the aegis of IAEA, and MEPhI together with BSUIR (Minsk) and NSTU named after R. Е. Alexeev is one of the network founders. At the moment the network includes 13 universities from Russia, Belorussia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. STAR-NET network is a voluntary international organization, founded by state and private universities, research centres, industrial enterprises and other interested subjects, involved in the activity, connected with education in nuclear technologies.

The second General assembly of international network Regional Network for Education and Training in Nuclear Technology (STAR-NET) has been dedicated to the results of the first year of its work and plans for the future year. STAR-NET President, MEPhI rector M.N.Strikhanov in his speech highly evaluated achievements of the first year and set a task of creation of the joint educational space to achieve the goals. For the year STAR-NET signed agreements and started fruitful cooperation with IAEA, WNU (World Nuclear University), with the coalition of existing regional networks of nuclear education, ENEN, ANENT, LANENT, with the Nuclear Knowledge Management   Institute (Vienna, Austria). Among the most important tasks, set at the Assembly, there are:

• the network scientific-methodological conference;
• research projects with the participation of students and students’ practice;
• general system of teachers’ qualification enhancement;
• detection of the possibility of exchange for research fellows, post-graduate students, PhDs;
• the regulation of joint usage of unique research-scientific equipment in education (research nuclear reactors, accelerators, assemblies etc.);
• joint educational Master’s degree programs.