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13-Jan-2009

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Science workshop focuses on port and harbour security

An SPS funded workshop held in Opatija, Croatia, on 8-12 December addressed the challenge of better dovetailing human behaviour and technological systems with view to enhancing maritime domain awareness in harbour and port security.

1958-2008: 50 YEARS OF SCIENCE AT NATO
The origins of the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme date to 1956, when a report by Foreign Ministers Halvard Lange of Norway, Gaetano Martino of Italy and Lester B. Pearson of Canada emphasized the importance of political, economic and scientific consultation for Allied security.
NATO project develops environmentally friendly methods for CWA decontamination
Using the results of a Science for Peace and Security project, a team from the NBC Defence and Ecology Research Centre of the Romanian Ministry of Defence recently demonstrated two new techniques for decontamination of chemical warfare agents (CWA) quickly and safely, using photocatalysts as a powder and as an aqueous suspension.
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:: ABOUT SPS ::
The Science for Peace and Security Programme offers grants to scientists in NATO, Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries to collaborate on priority research areas.

:: COUNTRY REPORTS ::
Country report files

:: PROJECTS
FUNDED BY NATO ::
Defence against Terrorism
Countering Other Threats to Security
Computer Networking Support

:: NATIONALLY FUNDED
STUDIES & PROJECTS ::
Advanced Cancer Risk Assessment (Phase II)
Food Chain Security
Air Pollution modelling and its application

:: RESPONDING TO NATO PRIORITIES ::

:: MULTIMEDIA ::
Mélange conversion in Azerbaijan - video (WMV 14.741Kb) 07 Jul 2008
SPS contributing to defence against terrorism - video (WMV /11.313Kb) 25 Mar. 2008
Virtual Silk Highway in Afghanistan (WMV 20.647Kb) 9 Nov. 2007
Removing a hazard in Moldova - video (WMV 13.430Kb) 05 Jun 2007