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The STCU delegation composed of a STCU senior specialist and three scientists with expertise in plasmaphysics and magnetic field diagnostics participated in the 2nd Meeting of the European Contact Expert Group for ISTC/STCU Projects on Fusion RTD (CEG-FUSION) held in Brussels on 20-21 September. This meeting was dedicated to the assess the capabilities of fusion communities in CIS countries, the identification of potential new projects and the promotion of proposals that would contribute to the aims of fusion RTD, and to the facilitation of cross fertilization of allied STCU/ISTC projects. A Survey of the STCU Fusion-related projects was presented as was a report on Ukrainian fusion programs and two proposals with high potential to contribute European Fusion programs: The STCU proposal #4155 “Experimental study of high-power plasma interaction with materials under conditions relevant to tokamak-reactor.” Project #3988 “Radiation hard Hall Probes and devices for JET”.