Sespel signed a cooperation agreement on joint activities, including the development and implementation of proposals for devising science and technology policy, forecasts and comprehensive programmes, including in the field of development of welding business, for coordinated efforts in areas such as technical regulation, welding business, the development and employment of materials about arrangements for information gathering on issues related to promising development paths of science and industries and the preparation of analytical reports and proposals for government authorities concerning the establishment of specialist R&D laboratories and pilot production businesses, for joint participation in the international cooperation events, for cooperation in talent management and personnel training, for the joint implementation of R&D and education projects, for the joint publication of articles, collections, teaching aids, academic monographs.