“…The 1st GDT-FNS Workshop was held jointly in November 2018 in Hefei, China, by the two institutes, INEST and BINP, as the first step to attract more partners to join in this work. It launched an intense process resulted in a first version of the ALIANCE project proposal submitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the journal of Nuclear Fusion [5]. The workshop was attended by thirty delegates representing BINP (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation), INEST (Hefei, China), Trialpha Technologies (TAE, Foothill Ranch, USA), Russian Federal Nuclear Center Zababakhin All-Russian Federation Research Institute of Technical Physics (VNIITF, Snezhinsk, Russian Federation), Novosibirsk State University (NSU, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation), Uppsala University (UU, Uppsala, Sweden), Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU, Tomsk, Russian Federation), and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU, Almaty, Kazakhstan).…”