European Day of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion for Teachers from FuseNet Association

On October 6th, the FuseNet association organized the 4th European Day of Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion for teachers in an online format.

The Ukrainian part of the event was organized by professors from the Education Research Institute "School of Physics and Technology" and the graduates of the institute with technical support from the National Contact Point Euroatom in Ukraine and the media studio of Karazin University. Over fifty teachers from all corners of Ukraine participated in the event.

The introductory remarks to the participants were delivered by a Professor of the Education Research Institute "School of Physics and Technology," Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Igor Hirka, and the Euroatom NCP Coordinator in Ukraine, Sergiy Pugach.

Yevgeniya Babenko, a graduate of the institute in 2011, who currently works in the field of plasma as a source of light at the Advanced Research Center of Nanolithography in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, spoke about plasma as a light source.

Yelizaveta Velyzhanina, who, after completing her studies at the institute in 2019, works in the Laboratory of Dynamics of Systems at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, introduced teachers to her research in computational hydrodynamics in the context of designing thermonuclear reactors.

Dmytro Rafalskyi, a graduate of the Education Research Institute "School of Physics and Technology" in 2007 and the Technical Director and Co-Founder of the aerospace company ThrustMe in France, gave a presentation on "Current Challenges in Plasma Application in the Aerospace Industry."

The Ukrainian part of the event was concluded by Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Deputy Director-General for Scientific Work of the National Scientific Center "Institute of Plasma Physics" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Institute of Applied Physics and Plasma Physics at the Education Research Institute "School of Physics and Technology," Igor Harkusha. He delivered a presentation on the activities of the Ukrainian Research Unit of the EUROfusion project.

In the overall European part of the event, teachers were introduced to the educational materials available on the FuseNet website and also conducted an online tour of the JET and ITER tokamak facilities.