On 16-19 October in Yalta the CNCP Programme in conjunction with the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology NNC organized a seminar for employees of Commercialisation Units created with support of CNCP. The seminar was attended by representatives of Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Poland and UK. It included four sessions: "Commercialisation Units in CIS research institutes", "Municipal establishments for business development and support", "Cooperation between international funds and programmes on R&D support and assistance to commercialisation of research developments", "Cooperation with commercial organisations to develop R&D and commercialize R&D results".

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.

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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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.

Experience exchange in the commercialisation of sensor and detector technologies 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 commercial sensors and detectors production, its key players and potential partners.

Seminar on the commercial applications of radiation technologies carried out by CNCP in Lvov, Ukraine, in conjunction with the Kharkhov Institute of Physics and Technology. The event was the latest in a series of seminars organized with a view to helping nuclear institutes to realize their commercial potential and to create new jobs.

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.

The CNCP Programme and International Scientific and Technical Centre (ISTC) organized the cycle of seminars on commercialisation of results of scientific and technical developments.

The first seminar on commercialisation of scientific and technical developments, Moscow region, Russia, March 2007

Regional seminar "Armenia-Georgia", Erevan, July 2007

Regional seminar "Ukraine-Belarus", Kiev, April 2008

Regional seminar "Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan", Tashkent, November 2008

Participants rated the cycle of seminars as very valuable. It provided opportunities for exchange of opinions and discussion on crucial topics, demonstrating the great potential of commercialising the knowledge, skills, and expertise of nuclear sector specialists, including those laid off from the military sector as a result of defence reforms.

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. Fifty-four participants attended the seminar including representatives from all of the former Soviet Union Republics institutes involved in the CNCP programme and 6 experts from UK, US and Canada.

A workshop on effective energy use, technologies of efficient energy consumption, energy saving, energy audit and other aspects that can be classified as energy efficiency (EE), was held in Moscow on 18-19 September 2007. The event was organised by the CNCP Programme and brought together 41 participants, including representatives of enterprises and city administrations from closed Rosatom cities, nuclear centres in former Soviet Union Republics, financial communities, and companies that manufacture EE products or provide EE services.