The WONP-NURT Symposia are among the key Cuban scientific meetings dealing with the peaceful applications of nuclear techniques in several domains of the society. These Symposia provide an opportunity for the international scientific community to meet outstanding researchers and to discuss current trends and tasks in several areas of applied, nuclear related fields.

The WONP had been initiated in 1994, and since 2005 has a bi-annual frequency and the NURT were organised in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2006. Since 2009 the WONP and NURT have a joint bi-annual frequency and they are organized by the Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear (CEADEN) and the Instituto Superior de Ciencias y Tecnologías Aplicadas (InSTEC) in co-ordination with the Agencia de Energía Nuclear y Tecnologías de Avanzada (AEN&TA).