The annual CNCP-Russia Conference on the Programme's 2009/2010 financial year was held in Vyborg from 5-7 July. William Elliott, British Consul-General in Saint Petersburg, representatives of UK DECC, Tomsk region, city administrations and companies from six Rosatom Closed Cities, as well as British specialists and the CNCP Management Team took part in the event.
The conference had the discussion session on CNCP experience and implementation of efficient regional innovation business support programmes.
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On 23-30 May 2010 a study tour to the UK was organized for the representatives from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The aims - enabling senior managers and specialists from nuclear research centres, ministries and academies of science, to learn from the British experience of commercialisation leading to the formation of new businesses.
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Experience exchange in the commercialisation of technical services among representatives of nuclear enterprises from Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, acquainting the participants with the modern status of the international market of technical services, its key players and potential partners.
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CNCP’s collaboration with the Almaty and Tashkent Institutes of Nuclear Physics has developed to include a very wide range of opportunities offered by the Programme. The various joint projects and initiatives, together with the prospects for 2010-2012, were discussed during CNCP visits to the two Institutes in April and May.

Open University LINK residential school for groups of staff members from the Sukhumi Institute of Physics and Technology and the Institute of Physics (Tbilisi) held for the first time in Gudauri (Georgia). The training on Open University LINK Business School programme was initiated and is financed by CNCP to support the commercialisation process in institutes which are involved in the CNCP programme. Residential schools are a compulsory element of the education and help participants implement in practice what they learn through the theoretical assignments.

First official visit by a CNCP delegation to the Closed City of Novouralsk: Programme representatives meet the head of the Municipal Administration and visit companies implementing CNCP projects.

At the meeting on 19th February 2010 the CNCP Steering Group approved 29 projects.
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On 9-10 Feburary CNCP delegation visited Joint Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research (JIENR) - Sosny in Minsk, Belarus. During their visit the CNCP representatives discussed the preparation of contracts with ISTC required for the implementation of CNCP projects such as "System for the determination of nitrosamines", "Establishment of a centre for water treatment and analyses" and "Increase in the safety of sealed sources with Cesium -137 by their additional encapsulation".
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On 18-22 January CNCP representatives visited Armenia and Georgia. They discussed preparatory activity for the implementation of projects and new funding proposals.
Workshop " Cutting dies market for packaging materials" was held in the framework of the market research funded by CNCP. The workshop was organized by Rastr-technology.

A CNCP Strategy for 2010-2012
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, February 2010
Visit of CNCP representatives to Minsk, Feburary 2010
Seminar on Commercialisation of Sensor and Detector Technologies, Sevastopol, Ukraine, October 2009
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, October 2009
Fifth Annual CNCP-NIS Conference, Batumi, Georgia, September 2009
The 7th CNCP-Russia Conference, Velikiy Novgorod, July 2009
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, June 2009
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, February 2009
Seminar on Business Incubators in Russian Nuclear Closed Cities, Seversk, December 2008