British Closed Nuclear Centres Partnership



PROJECTS


  Study tours to Great Britain

The main aim of the annual Study Tour is to give the management of enterprises and heads of city administrations an opportunity to study the UK experience of economy restructuring to help solve the problem of the creation of sustainable jobs for nuclear weapons scientists and engineers facing redundancy and to discuss the problem of commercialisation and development of business. Twice a year, groups of senior representatives of former Soviet nuclear weapons establishments visit leading universities, research institutes and defence establishments to meet technology transfer and business start-up specialists.


  Organization of international seminars

CNCP programme organize the international seminars in which take part representatives from Closed Cities of Russia and nuclear centres of former Soviet Union Respublics and UK. The seminar participants on concrete examples can to study experience of technologies commercialization, to discuss the possibilities for commercialising the results of scientific and technological research as an effective means to promote economic stability and to create new jobs, to consider a new promising commercial sphere which is able to create new jobs and a worthy application of former nuclear specialists' expertise.


  The Business English and Contract Negotiations annual courses in the De Monfort University (Leicester, Great Britain)

Since 2004 the CNCP programme organizes the Business English and Contract Negotiations annual courses in the De Monfort University. Representatives from nuclear centres and enterprises of Russia and countries of former Soviet Union take part in training. The main topics of the course are negotiations, business communication, innovation activity, business, corporate culture, formal business English, writing reports and proposals, preparation of presentations, marketing, brand managements and issues related to intellectual property.


  Tne distance learning under the programme of International Management Institute LINK

CNCP programme organize the distance learning under the programme of International Management Institute LINK. Specialists of organizations and enterprises in closed cities and nuclear centres have the opportunity to learn the programmes designed for complex vocational training of managers in all main activity areas needed for a competent manager: marketing, financial management, information etc. Objective of project is to promote understanding of modern management techniques by encouraging staff to take educational qualifications using distance learning.


  English Courses at the University of Birmingham

CNCP programme organize the English Courses at the University of Birmingham. Specialists from closed nuclear cities, representatives of business support structures in Snezhinsk, Ozersk, Seversk, Zheleznogorsk, Sarov, Kharkov, Tashkent and Alma-Aty attended a two-week course in Business English Language Development & Commercialization.