Dear Friends, Colleagues,
We very much look forward to hosting the “Low dose radiation risks: present research and future perspectives” NATO-funded Workshop, on 30th March – 2nd April, 2025, and to wishing you a warm welcome to Armenia and the beautiful city of Yerevan.
This workshop covers all the aspects on the road of the prevention and healthy living in term of radiation safety, which represent the next step in making the surrounding environment healthy, despite the growing number of different types of resources of low dose radiation in the rapid technological advances and sustainable development in 21st century. The vast majority of population worldwide are at high risk of the low dose irradiation, the prevention and protection of which ensure the community to have a better quality of life.
This NATO Workshop 2025 is to be held in the Ibis Yerevan Center, which is ideally located just in the heart of the Armenian capital, Yerevan, and easily reached from the city centre in just 3 minutes by walking. This venue with modern and comfortable rooms and offers the highest standards in conference facilities, with well-equipped and easy-to-find session rooms and a full digital environment.
Yerevan itself is a beautiful city with a history dating backcity with all its attractions and services within walking distance. It has excellent restaurants for all budgets, museums, monuments, parks, shopping, market squares and other places to visit, a lively nightlife. With something for all tastes, Yerevan is a unique Caucasian experience.
Welcome to Yerevan!
Dr. Arsen Arakelyan
Chair of the Local organizing committee
Dear friends,
On behalf of the Co-director of the “Low dose radiation risks: present research and future perspectives” NATO Advanced Research Workshop it is my great pleasure to invite you to Armenia for this NATO Workshop 2025.
Armenia promises to be a wonderful workshop venue and offers an excellent opportunity to facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation on issues of common interest related to environmental security.
A key focus in this workshop will be the discussion of ways of reducing uncertainty in environmental protection concerning low dose radiation effects by improving understanding of mechanisms of radiation damage and how these happen when energy interacts with other environmental stressors. We are delighted to bring together experts who can seek to understand the mechanisms by which deposition of ionizing radiation energy results in activation of a series of stress or adaptive responses and how these are modulated by concurrent exposure to other environmental stressors. This will reduce uncertainty surrounding low dose radiation exposure effects and will also provide material for modelers to refine existing models used to predict outcomes following nuclear events.
For all of us, the city of Yerevan and the friendly and open Caucasian people will be the perfect context for our Workshop, for sharing and discussing high level science, and translating that science into concrete initiatives for the evaluation and mitigation of low dose radiation risks across the world.
I do hope that you will be able to join us at this NATO Workshop 2025 in Yerevan and I look forward to seeing you there.
Dr. Carmel Mothersill
Chair of the General organizing committee