Objective Attempts to understand QCD in the nonperturbative regime encounter well-known long-standing difficulties. In recent years a remarkable progress has been achieved along several lines and the teams participating in the project contributed to this development. An important ingredient of this rise is the progress in the lattice simulations and wide use of various analytical as well as numerical tools. However a complete quantitative description of the nonperturbative dynamics is still lacking.The present project is aimed at a systematic investigation of non perturbative QCD along the following lines:1. To accomplish a self-consistent picture of various nonperturbative phenomena in QCD by use of the VCM and lattice calculations. To establish connection between the local condensates used in QCD Sum Rules and the non-local condensates of the VCM. This might shed new light on the OPE at large distances;2. To investigate N=1,2,4 super symmetric gauge theories in terms of local and non-local nonperturbative condensates;3. To investigate the interconnection between chiral symmetry breaking and confinement by use of effective quark Lagrangian derived from QCD within the VCM;4. To apply VCM to calculation of static potentials, hadronic spectra, and hadron-hadron scattering both in QCD and related theories (sigma-models, supersymmetric QCD);5. To investigate nonperturbative effects in QCD at finite temperatures and densities, in particular to study colour superconductivity phenomenon making use of the VCM and the method of exact renormalization group flow. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) 1A - Nuclear Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics OPEN - OPEN Call Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Universita Pisa EU contribution No data Address Via Buonarroti 2 56127 Pisa Italy See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics Russia EU contribution No data Address Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya 25 117218 Moscow See on map Total cost No data Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Spain EU contribution No data Address Canto Blanco 28049 Madrid See on map Total cost No data University of Utrecht Netherlands EU contribution No data Address Princetonplein 5 3584 CC Utrecht See on map Total cost No data Universität Heidelberg Germany EU contribution No data Address Philosophenweg 19 69120 Heidelberg See on map Total cost No data Uzbekistan National University Uzbekistan EU contribution No data Address Vuzgorodok 700174 Tashkent See on map Total cost No data