On May 28, International centre for materials science at the University hosted an international video conference “Problems of creation of model research laboratories”. The event was attended by the ICM staff and representatives of the Department of metallurgy, materials science and nanotechnology. With the reports on the development of such laboratories performed Khasanov O., professor, Director of the nanotechnology center of National research Tomsk Polytechnic University, S. Antonyuk, Ph. D., professor, head of Department of technology of hard alloys of the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) and V. Kulikov, head of ICM of KSTU.