Council for Innovativeness at the City of Warsaw Mayor convened in NCBJ on April 8, 2016. The council mission is to advise local authorities how to foster innovative business ventures.

The Council includes representatives of War­sa­w City Hall, Mazovian Voivodeship Marshall Office, Mi­ni­stry of Science and Higher Education, some Warsaw-based Universities, business community, and some other entities interested in fostering economic innovativeness. NCBJ, an entity of the latter category, is represented in the Council by its Director General.

The session of the Council organized in Świer­k was chaired by Mi­chał Ol­szew­ski, Deputy Mayor of the City of War­sa­w. The main subject of the session was War­saw Co­nven­tion Bu­re­au offer, discussion how to foster business tourism in the region, and the topic of business tourism impact on local economy. Next, session participants were presented with NCBJ achievements and capacities, including some details of the international “TAWARA RTM” project to develop a pro­to­type system to monitor radioactivity of water supplied to municipal water supply systems. Polish scientists contributed to the project by developing detectors capable to identify even trace amounts of radioisotopes in tap water.

The session was concluded with visits to selected labs of the Świerk Science & Technology Park, premises of the MA­RIA re­acto­r, NCBJ Division of Nuclear Equipment (where the guests were presented with some me­dical and industrial ac­ce­le­ra­to­rs developed in Świerk), and Świerk Computer Centre (where they could familiarize themselves with Centre’s technical in­fra­structure).