From 9 to 10 December 2008 a seminar on business incubators was held in the city of Seversk. In addition to informative reports, the programme included visits to the Tomsk technological and innovation zone, and to two student business incubators “Druzhba” (Tomsk) and “Stimul” (Seversk). The official opening of the Seversk Innovation Business Incubator was a highlight of the event.
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On 19-20 November in Tashkent a seminar on commercialisation was held for representatives from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. It became the last in the cycle of events which started with a big seminar organized together with ISTC near Moscow in March 2007. The event was attended by 56 people - employees of nuclear centres of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, a number of scientific institutes, universities and financial organizations, scientists - biochemist, representatives of companies - producers and distributors of isotope products, British experts and also representatives of IAEA.
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On 13-14 November a visit to the Joint Institute for Power and Nuclear Research (JIPNR) - Sosny, Minsk (Belarus) was organized for CNCP delegates. The CNCP experts visited the sites planned for implementation of two projects which are now at the market research stage and the project "Facility for detecting nitrosamines" approved in October 2008.
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10-11 November CNCP specialists visited the Kiev Institute of Nuclear Physics. The implementation of grant supported projects was discussed, as were concepts for new production projects being proposed for funding through the Programme. An important element of the visit was an examination of the accelerators, hot chambers. The purpose of this was to evaluate the commercial potential of the existing equipment. A British specialist in radiation technologies took part in the visit to make this possible.
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Periodical audit of projects being carried out by beneficiary companies in Seversk. Preliminary, current and final audits focusing on the use made of funds which have been dispersed are carried out by a professional firm of auditors in conjunction with staff members of the Moscow representation of the management company, HTSPE Ltd. They are a key link in the system for monitoring the implementation of CNCP Programme projects. With the active involvement of the Programme's local coordinators they make possible quarterly monitoring of the most important success measures for the projects concerned.

Representatives of the Programme met City leaders and visited small businesses which are implementing CNCP supported projects. Among other things, discussions covered the impact of the economic crisis on beneficiary companies. In Snezhinsk, the delegation worked alongside the Deputy Minister of the Chelyabinsk Region responsible for economic development. The possibility of the joint funding of promising projects by the CNCP Programme and the Administration of the Chelyabinsk region was discussed. On the occasion of the visit to Ozersk, a formal opening ceremony was held for the Business Development Agency which has been established with help from CNCP.
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At the meeting on 13th October 2008 the CNCP Steering Group approved 17 projects. The Committee approved outline proposals for the 17 projects.
The Programme is part of the Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons of Mass destruction. Funding at least until 2012 has already been announced. It is expected that a decision on longer term prospects will be taken in 2010.
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Study Tour to Great Britain for representatives of Closed Cities, the central administration of Rosatom, Atomenergoprom and the Atom-Innovation centre. Senior level representatives from the City Administrations and the Rosatom nuclear facilities familiarised themselves with British experience of the commercialisation of technology and local economic development.
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Annual CNCP Conference held at Lake Sevan in Armenia, with representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Great Britain, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan taking part. Such Conferences provide an opportunity for a very useful exchange of experience on the implementation of CNCP projects through both formal and informal discussions between colleagues from the countries of the Former Soviet Union.
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The Zhelesnogorsk companies Kraspan, Vermiculite, Alukom, NPO PM MKB and Russian Profile - Zheleznogorsk have successfully completed CNCP projects. This was confirmed by a visit by CNCP representatives to the city, which included evaluation of the results of these projects. This was preceded by the Final Audit, whose purpose was to provide documentary evidence that the contracting parties had carried out the obligations which they had committed themselves to fulfill.

A CNCP delegation visited the town of Kurchatov. The programme encompassed projects organised in conjunction with the National Nuclear Centre of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It also reviewed the on-going collaboration with the Nuclear Technologies Park, which has been set up, in part, to help create new jobs in this satellite town of the former Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. The Programme is contributing to helping the Technopark with its development strategy and with staff training in an initiative which is also being partly funded by the Technopark itself.
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From 4 to 6 August there was organized an official visit of the CNCP delegation to Seversk. The experts visited operating production sites and sites planed for operation of FSUE "Siberuan Chemical Kombinat" and Seversk, where CNCP projects are implemented. At the meetings the delegates discussed implementation of ongoing projects and considered several new proposals.
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From July 20-28, 2008, CNCP organized a visit to the British and European Scientific Centre at Culham for top-management of the Kazakhstan National Nuclear Centre (City of Kurchatov). The main goals of the tour were to get acquainted with the JET and MAST tokamaks, and to discuss technical and organizational areas of potential cooperation.
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The results achieved by the Partnership over the previous year were the focus of the 6th Annual CNCP-Russia Conference, which was held in Astrakhan from 8-10 July. As on previous occasions, the Conference brought together top level leaders from the six closed Rosatom Cities involved in the Programme. Representatives of the nuclear enterprises and scientific centres, directors of the business development agencies and International Development Centers from the cities and British and Rosatom specialists also participated.
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At the meeting on 27th June 2008 the CNCP Steering Group approved 12 projects. The Committee approved outline proposals for the 25 projects.
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On 22-23 May 2008 in Almaty in Institute of Nuclear Physics, National Nuclear Centre of the Republic of Kazakhstan there was held a workshop on commercial production of isotopes for industrial and medical applications.
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A seminar devoted to the commercialisation of scientific and technical R&D, organized by CNCP, was held in Kiev on April 9-10, 2008. The event was attended by 60 people, representing nuclear centres from Ukraine and Belarus, STCU, specialists employed by commercialisation departments from various research institutes, and British experts.
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An official delegation of CNCP representatives visited Sevastopol (Ukraine) from March 24 to 26.
During the trip the CNCP experts visited the Sevastopol National University of Nuclear Energy and Industry (SNUNE&I), which became involved in the CNCP activities in 2007.
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Between 26-28 February 2008 a CNCP delegation visited Sarov. The participants of the Programme discussed results of their work and prospects for further development of the Partnership in the closed city.
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At the meeting on 18th February 2008 the CNCP Steering Group approved 17 projects: 8 from Russia, 5 from Kazakhstan, 3 from Ukraine and 1 from Armenia. The Committee approved outline proposals for the 13 projects and requested that full proposals to be prepared.
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From the 4 to 29 February an annual Business English Course traditionally took place in the De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. This year the University received a fifth group of representatives from Russia and former Soviet Union Republics working on the CNCP Programme. The group included employees of nuclear centres and research institutes from Sarov, Ozersk, Snezhinsk, Seversk, Zheleznogorsk, Kharkov, Almaty, Kurchatov and Tashkent.
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A study Tour on Commercialisation of Science and Technology was held from 10th – 17th February 2008. The main goal of the Study Tour was to give top managers from nuclear research institutes and specialists involved in the commercialisation of scientific and R&D an opportunity to explore British experience in developing effective commercialisation and in setting-up successful companies.
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Five proposals for commercialisation projects designed to create of new jobs for specialists formerly involved in the Soviet nuclear weapons programme were considered during the visit.

Training workshops for technology commercialization offices, Kazakhstan, November 2011
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, November 2011
Study tour "Development of local economies faced with substantial restructuring", September 2011
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, July 2011
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, April 2011
Visit of CNCP Programme representatives to Minsk, April 2011
A meeting between employees of Sens Ltd. and a representative of Qi3 company, UK, Мoscow, March 2011
Conference "ZATO - Area of State Interests", Sarov, February 2011
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, December 2010
Seminar "Experience and Prospects of Inward Investment Attraction to Closed Cities", Krasnoyarsk, Zheleznogorsk, October 2010