In partnership with the World Customs Organization (WCO), ITMO University (St. Petersburg, Russia) organized and hosted the i-Customs Conference, which is an international Youth Conference, on 20-21 May 2016 in St. Petersburg.
The Conference consisted of presentations by students from around the world of their research papers on Customs related subjects. A jury of experts, including the Head of the WCO Research Unit, selected several papers as the best of the conference and recommended them for presentation at the annual WCO PICARD Conference, which will be held in Manila, Philippines 27-29 September 2016.
WCO Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya gave a video introductory address in which he congratulated the students for their diligent work and expressed the sentiment that they are the future of the Customs world.
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