The 8th CNCP-Russia Conference, Vyborg, 5-7 July 2010
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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Study tour to the UK, May 23-30, 2010
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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Workshop "Technological services and commercialization prospects", Odessa (Ukraine), May 12-14, 2010
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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Visit of CNCP specialists to Almaty and Tashkent, 13–14 April and 4–6 May 2010
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, Gudauri (Georgia), 26-28 February 2010
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.
Visit of CNCP Programme representatives to Novouralsk, 25 February 2010
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.
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, 19th February 2010
At the meeting on 19th February 2010 the CNCP Steering Group approved 29 projects.
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Visit of CNCP representatives to Minsk, Feburary 2010
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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CNCP representatives visited Armenia and Georgia, January 2010
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.