Russia's Skolkovo Fund, Japan's Waseda Univ sign coop agreement .

TOKYO, October 14 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Skolkovo Fund has signed an
agreement with Tokyo's biggest private Waseda University on a working
dialogue to select most promising projects of machines and equipments for
decontamination of territories affected after the Fukushima-1 nuclear
plant accident, Skolkovo Fund's vice president Stanislav Naumov told
Itar-Tass on Friday.
Naumov came to Japan to hold consultations on cooperation with
research and business institutions.
"We met with head of the Waseda University and signed an agreement on
working dialogue with an aim to select projects for Skolkovo," he said.
"We also reached an agreement on exchange of experts with Itochu
Corporation. We also had contacts with a number of small innovation
companies active in the area of small and medium-sized business. We agreed
that they will be granted a status in Skolkovo and will deal with projects
in the areas efficient use of energy, disposal of household waste, and
biotechnologies." Such works, according to Naumov, will be done on the
base of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, which is now
being established.
"I hope in December there will be a project of organizing measurements
in the area of nuclear security, with Russian and Japanese developments in
robotics technology," he went on to say. "We want to make new machines and
equipment that will help Japan to solve the problem of decontamination of
territories affected by radiation after the accident at the Fukushima-1
nuclear plant. It will be one of top-priority projects for Skolkovo and it
will be carried out jointly with Rosatom and Japanese partners, including
experts from the Waseda University. We hope big corporations like Itochu
will also take part in it. We want Japan's leading companies to
participate in the Skolkovo innovation project."
According to Naumov, the Skolkovo Fund president, Viktor Vekselberg,
will soon hold the fund's presentation in Japan.