September 18, Senior Researcher of the IAO SB RAS, Ph.D. Boris A. Voronin took part in the meeting of the heads of the national cells of the Marie Curie Alumni Association https://www.mariecuriealumni.eu. At the meeting in Porto, Portugal, the current tasks and plans of the Association, counting more than 10,000 people around the world, were discussed. The annual meeting of the Russian Chapter of the Association https://www.mariecuriealumni.eu/groups/russian-chapter was held in September 22-23 in St. Petersburg, where, in particular, the Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Andrey V. Anikeev answered the questions of scientists about the problems of Russian science.