Monitoring of CNCP projects being implemented in the Kiev Institute of Nuclear Research and the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology. Projects in these institutes support the commercialisation of high technology innovations. For example, in Kiev projects involve the production of technetium generators, stationary and mobile, and micro strip detectors. Discussions are already underway with potential British partners for the micro strip project. The Kharkov Institute is also hosting a number of innovation-based CNCP projects.

At its meeting on 3 December 2010, the Steering Group approved a second group of Legacy Projects.
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On 23-24 November 2010 a visit to Seversk was organized for representatives of CNCP. The delegation included a representative of the UK Department of Energy and Clime Change (DECC) David Rendall Tomas and CNCP experts headed by the Programme Leader Patrick Gray. During the visit a meeting was held with the Mayor and Head of Seversk Administration, at which the prospect of CNCP development in Seversk was discussed. The CNCP delegation visited buildings and sites where the projects funded by the Programme are being implemented, met representatives of SCK to discuss joint projects. Also, a meeting was arranged with city enterprises which submitted project proposals for CNCP funding.
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Team of CNCP specialists works in Astana with specialists from the Kazakhstan National Innovation Fund to develop a «Strategy for the Commercialisation of Technology in Kazakhstan». The draft Strategy is presented to the Minister of Industry and New Technologies and his team in a meeting at the end of the visit. The Strategy is intended to provide the basis for a National Programme for Technology Commercialisation for the period to 2020.

The main objective of the tour was development of activity directions and solution of issued discussed during the VIII CNCP Conference in Vyborg - keeping main CNCP functions after 2012 and opportunities for funding these initiatives. In the course of the tour there were studied examples of how a relatively isolated region of England - Western Cumbria - started implementation of the long-term programme of its economic regeneration, diversification of the local economy and reduction of its dependency on Sellafield - the largest enterprise handling spent nuclear fuel. The participants of the tour visited the Yorkshire site of the Welding Institute (TWI), Research Centre of Advanced Nuclear technologies, Industrial Site of Sellafield, National Nuclear Laboratory (Sellafield), Science and Technology Park Westlakes and Land Rover plant in Solihull.
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From 25 to 29 October a study tour "Radiation medical technologies of the United Kingdom" was arranged by CNCP for representatives of the nuclear industry of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The tour programme included a visit to the Harwell nuclear site, where over 4,500 people are employed in 80 commercial structures. Among them is Isotron Ltd., the main supplier of commercial services in radiation treatment (medical sterilization) in Europe. Also, the participants visited the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, Centre for Diagnostics and Treatment of Cancer, Centre of Nuclear Medicine and National Physical Laboratory.

On 19-20 October in Krasnoyarsk and Zheleznogorsk a Seminar on experience and prospects of inward investment attraction to closed cities was held with support of CNCP Programme. The seminar was attended by heads of Rosatom closed cities, representatives of Rosatom Corporation and Chair of Association of Closed Cities of Atomic Industry, nuclear industry specialists and CNCP experts.
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On 11 October in Tbilisi (Georgia) the CNCP Programme in association with the Andronikashvili Institute of Physics and Sukhumi Institute of Physics and Technologies arranged a seminar for employees of commercialisation centres created with CNCP support, and on 12-14 October they organized a seminar dedicated to commercial application of diagnostics equipment and medical technologies. A special attention was paid to commercialization in nuclear medicine. The participants were given presentations by invited speakers from the UK and Germany. Specialists from Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine shared their experience in implementation of CNCP projects related to biological and medical technologies. On 14 October there was held a seminar on "Marketing and sales of medical products. Experience of CNCP".
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Meetings organised in CNCP Headquarters in Moscow between the leaders of ten innovatory projects and a specialist from the British company Qi3 working under contract with HTSPE. Qi3 specialises in the commercialisation of high-technology scientific inventions. The aim of the meetings was to identify commercial opportunities for the projects concerned in international markets.

Representatives of CNCP participate in international conference on «Innovation Technologies. Realities and Prospects», organised by the Park of Nuclear Technologies (PNT) in Kurchatov, Kazakhstan. The Programme’s representatives participate in the full sessions and the working groups, presenting international experience on the development of science parks. Working meetings also held with CNCP projects in Kurchatov.

On 7-9 September in Minsk there was held the VI CNCP-NIS Annual Conference attended by specialists of the nuclear industry of Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The results of 2009-10 FY were reviewed and the changes in the International Scientific and Technological Centre and their impact on CNCP projects were considered. The participants discussed such topics as: "Institutes in the market - key factors of success", "Commercialisation units - why?", "Infrastructure support of innovation business", "Difficulties in use of scientific developments in business" and "Special features of radiation treatment market". In the framework of the Conference the round table talks were held on "CNCP 2012 - new opportunities".
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CNCP delegation monitors progress of projects in Zheleznogorsk. Meetings held with the leaders of the City Adminstration. Six projects are being implemented in Zheleznogorsk and eight have already been completed.

Elina Vdovieva appointed Director of the Ozersk Business Development Agency at meeting of the Board of the Agency, which was set up with support from CNCP as a centre for business development in the City and which, since opening in 2008, has acted as Coordinator for the Programme in the City.

In July 2010, the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in scientist redirection and engagement through the UK's CNCP programme. The Canadian Government has provided a financial contribution of 1.5 million Canadian Dollars for this collaboration, and has already approved funding for a number of grant projects in Russia and other countries of the Former Soviet Union. These projects are being implemented in Seversk, Zheleznogorsk, Minsk, Almaty and Kurchatov.

At its meeting in July 2010, the Steering Group approved a first group of Legacy Projects.
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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.

Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, March 2011
Training workshops for technology commercialization offices, Kazakhstan, November 2011
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, November 2011
Seminar "Development Centres and Commercialisation Units: Results and Prospects", Yalta, Ukraine, October 2011
Study tour "Development of local economies faced with substantial restructuring", September 2011
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, July 2011
The 9th CNCP-Russia Conference, Svetlogorsk, July 2011
Conference "Innovation as a Tool for Business Development", Gomel, Belarus, June 2011
Results of CNCP Steering Group Meeting, April 2011
Visit of CNCP Programme representatives to Minsk, April 2011