The NICA accelerator complex is the new Mega-Science project co-financed by the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna and the Russian Federation. The complex will deliver collisions of two beams of ions, from p to Au, and center-of-mass energies of 4-11 AGeV. The collider is currently under construction at JINR, with participation from Polish contributors. The capabilities of the complex as well as the status of the construction of the machine will be shortly presented. The NICA-PL consortium of polish scientific institutions interested in the participation in NICA will also be introduced.
The major scientific experiment at the NICA Complex is the Multi-Purpose Detector. Its physics program and status of the construction of the detector will be described. Recently an international collaboration of MPD has been formed, which is now in the process of formalizing its structure and governing bodies. The opportunities for polish institutions for participation in MPD will be advertised.
