On September 20, 2022, Dr. Alexander Uspenskiy, Director of RCTT took part as a moderator and a speaker at the round table "Strengthening technological sovereignty through direct cooperation between scientific organizations, development institutions and centers for technology transfer in the CIS", which was held as part of the 25th International Exhibition of Industrial Technologies and Innovations "TechInnoProm".

Organizers:

• Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
• Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus
• National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
• National Research Technological University (MISIS)
• St. Petersburg State University of Economics
• International Union of Instrument Makers and Specialists in Information and Telecommunication Technologies.

Topics of the round table:

• The cooperation of Russian and Belarusian universities and R&D organizations with each other on the one hand and with business on the other creates the very environment that increases the efficiency of responding to the challenges of the time and ensures the competitiveness of the economies of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus
• Cooperation between Russian and Belarusian centres for technology transfer

Round table moderators:

• Gennady Popov, Chairman, Executive Committee of the International Union of Instrument Makers and Specialists in Information and Telecommunication Technologies (Russia)
• Dr. Alexander Uspenskiy, Director, Republican Center for Technology Transfer (Belarus)

Speakers:

• Vladlen Medvedev, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
  
• Petr Pekutko, Head of the Department of Science and Innovation, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus
• Dr. Alexander Uspenskiy, Director, Republican Center for Technology Transfer, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
• Andrey Polyakov, Head of Science Department, MISIS
• Viktor Pashkevich, Vice-Rector for Research, Belarusian-Russian University
• Yuri Gritsenko. Head of Innovation Department, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
• Alexey Borovikov, Vice-Rector, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
• Evgeny Zemlyakov, Deputy Director for Research and Design, Institute of Laser and Welding Technologies, St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University
• Konstantin Kostenko, Head of Technology Transfer Center, North Caucasus Federal University

Within the framework of the round table, Director of the Republican Center for Technology Transfer Dr. Alexander Uspenskiy made a presentation on the topic “Commercialization of the R&D results in the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, created at the expense of state funds of the Republic of Belarus and the Union State: state, problems, solutions”.