NACC Workshop on Practical Defence Conversion Activities to be Held in the Land of Brandenburg
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Date
1994 October 19-21
Summary
A Workshop on Practical Defence Conversion Activities, as scheduled in the 1994 Workplan of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC), will be held from 19-21 October 1994 in Potsdam and Pinnow (Land of Brandenburg), Germany. The German hosts are the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Economics, Medium-sized Enterprises and Technology of the Land of Brandenburg. A major contribution to the programme is provided by Buck Inpar GmbH. The Workshop will unite some 70 experts from Allied and Cooperation Partner Countries for intensive exchanges on practical experiences in the field of defence conversion. Participants^ (government officials, industrialists and academics) will visit a military installation of the former GDR’s National People’s Army in Gross Glienicke in Brandenburg. On-site explanations on the transformation of barracks into social housing units will be given by the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Brandenburg. Furthermore, the production sites of Buck Inpar GmbH in Pinnow near Schwedt on the river Oder - the location of one of the most important armament factories of the former GDR - will be visited. Several conversion areas - e.g. in the field of construction, industrial, medical and environmental technologies - will be demonstrated.