ICTP in Numbers

How many scientists have visited ICTP, and where do they come from? What do they research while they are here?

ICTP visiting scientists in brief:

• 125,000 visits from scientists since 1964
• 184 countries represented
• 56% from developing countries, LDCs and transition countries
• 20% of visiting scientists are women
• 410 months of training to 154 participants in 1964
• 1261 months of training to 5326 participants in 2011

Visitor Statistics 2011:The numbers below include the number of visitors to ICTP's annual programme of conferences and workshops (62 such activities in 2011) as well as visitors participating in the Centre's ongoing research activities.

• Number of visitors: 5319
• Female: 1155 (22%)
• Male: 4164
• Average length of visit, conference participant: 7 days
• Average length of visit, research visitor: 57 days
• Nations represented: 142

Hosted activities:

• Number of conferences: 24
• Participants: 1315

Total number of scientific visitors: 6634

Country Reports by Region (downloadable PDFs):

Africa: Algeria, Benin, Egypt, Libya, Morocco,  Kenya, Tunisia, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

Asia: Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malayasia, Pakistan, Singapore, Vietnam

Eastern Europe: Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Bulgaria, Romania

Latin America: Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela

Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain

ICTP Training and Education

• Postgraduate Diploma Programme
  Since 1991, 696 students from 69 countries have participated in the Postgraduate Diploma Programme. During the 2010-2011 study term, 50 students (32% women) from 24 countries participated in the progamme, including nine young physicists from Sub-Saharan Africa who attended the one-year Postgraduate Diploma Programme in Basic Physics. Of the nine who received their basic physics diploma, seven were admitted to the regular diploma programmes (two in high energy physics, three in condensed matter, and two in Earth system physics). One was admitted to a master's programme in Paris and one went home waiting for admission.
  Programme webpage
   
• ICTP-IAEA Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP)
  STEP fellowships help stem developing world brain drain by keeping PhD students at their home universities but supporting them to visit ICTP or a collaborating institute for a three- to six-month stay each year for three successive years. In 2010, 33 fellows (seven women) participated in the programme for a total of 40 visits.
  Programme webpage
   

Science Career Support

• Associateship and Federation Arrangements Schemes
  Since the programme's inception in 1964, more than 2,500 scientists from nearly 100 developing countries have been chosen as ICTP Associates. In 2011, 482 Associate Members were appointed (17% women). They generated 194 visits by 182 individuals.
  
  In 2011, ICTP had a total of 105 Federation Arrangements in 25 countries. The total number of visits under the programme was 84.
  Programme webpage
  
  
• Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL) Programme
  Since 1983, the TRIL Programme has awarded 1,947 grants to 1,262 fellows from 88 countries. More than 400 Italian laboratories have participated in the programme. The total number of TRIL fellows present in Italy in 2011 was 88, while 61 new grants and 21 extensions to existing grants were awarded.
  Programme webpage
   
• ICTP-ELETTRA Users Programme
  This programme offers access to Trieste's Elettra synchrotron radiation facility for scientists from developing countries who work in those countries. In 2011, ICTP supported 44 visits of participants coming from the following countries.
  Programme webpage

Activities in Developing Countries

ICTP is actively involved in building scientific capacity in the developing world through its Office of External Activities (OEA). In 2011, the OEA supported the following:

• 6 Affiliated Centres
• 10 Projects
• 11 Networks
• 67  Scientific Meetings
• 9 Visiting Scholars

 Programme website

2011 ICTP Staff and Budget

In 2011, ICTP supported:

• 30 permanent scientists
• 98 research staff associates, long-term scientists, post-docs, and scientific consultants
• 8 administrative staff
• 90 general services staff
• annual budget of 23.8 million euros