A delegation from Advanced Research Foundation (also known as Foundation for Advanced Research Projects or ‘Russia’s prospective rival of the US breakthrough military research agency DARPA’, according to RIA Novosti) visited Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN) on Tuesday, October 28.

Mr. Andrei Grigoriev, general director of ARF, signed a cooperation agreement with UNN under which a new Laboratory of Additive Technologies and Engineering Materials would be established at the university to develop new high-risk technologies to meet future demands of the military and industrial markets. 

The delegation headed by Andrei Grigoriev visited a new lab and met with its staff.

‘The newly created systems allow us to reconstruct and produce products with given forms and properties. The latest developments made at UNN are promising. Moreover, the university has facilities required to carry out these tasks,’ Mr. Igor Denisov, director of ARF research projects in physics and technology, said.

Mr. Andrei Grigoriev also met with researchers from the Research Institute of Living Systems and said, it was not excluded that in the future ARF would be working with UNN on another joint project.