It is no secret that qualified specialists in nanotechnology are scant. The competencies of graduates do not always meet the requirements of the industry. The well-known reasons are that science and education were in stagnation for twenty years and the engineering profession became less prestigious. The novelty of the technology is also playing a big role because a university applicant has to know what he or she is going to do in the future, while school curricula provide a vague overview of "nano". The 2011 Chemistry Nobel Prize Laureate, Dan Schechtman, who m a d e a s p e e c h i n St. Petersburg a few years ago, said that the popularization of science in Israel starts in the kindergarten. Possibly, this is one of the reasons that this country is a leader in the field of science: Israel ranks first in the world in the number of scientific publications per capita. Fortunately, in the past few years, the Russian professional

20 и 21 июля Московский государственный университет им. М.В.Ломоносова и "Центр перспективных технологий" посетила группа ученых (рис.1) из Шарифского технологического университета (Тегеран, Иран). Иранские ученые уже четвертый год активно работают на сканирующем зондовом микроскопе "ФемтоСкан", который установлен в Центре коллективного пользования Шарифского технологического университета. On 20th and 21th July the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Advanced Technologies Center were visited by a group of scientists (Fig.1) from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran). Iranian scientists for the fourth year actively use FemtoScan scanning probe microscope that is installed in the Shared Services