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Collaborations
"Scientific thought is the common heritage of mandkind". This sentiment, often expressed by ICTP's founder and long-time director, Abdus Salam, has inspired the Centre since its inception in 1964. Created during the Cold War in the heart of Europe, ICTP provided a rare line of communication between scientists from the East and West. Later, ICTP emerged as a focal point of co-operation between the North and South, aiming to help scientists from developing countries overcome their isolation and contribute to state-of-the-art research in physics and mathematics.
The Centre has a long tradition on bilateral institutional collaborations to support scientists and the development of scientific communities in Developing Countries. The goal is to develop a vigorous broad based programme of mutual interest focussing, for example, on the training of faculty, joint lectureships, academic curriculum assessments, and development of scientific contents and Internet access.
Collaboration and Partnerships
ICTP works in close collaboration with a number of organizations in Trieste and world-wide to create alliances and promote sustainable development and partnerships in science and technology.
North America:
- Americal Physical Society (APS)
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
- International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
South America:
Europe/Trieste:
- The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World - TWAS
- Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati - SISSA
- Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica (DFT), University of Trieste
- University of Trieste
- Other Italian Universities: Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM)
- Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ELETTRA/Tasc)
- Trieste Municipality Protocol Agreement with other Scientific Institutions (in Italian)
- Trieste Municipality Annual Programme 2009 (in Italian)
- Trieste System
- Centro UNESCO di Trieste
Others in Europe/Asia:
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Central European Initiative (CEI)
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- International Commission for Optics (ICO)
- International Mathematical Union (IMU)




