Associates Programme

ICTP's Associateship Scheme enables individual scientists to maintain long-term, formal contacts with the stimulating and active scientific environment of the Centre. Thanks to the Associateship Scheme, scientists of a good research level, coming from and working in developing countries, remain regularly in contact with the most modern aspects of their scientific fields. This, to a large extent, helps to eliminate the "brain-drain" in their home countries.  As Associate Members are active scientists in their countries, they are expected to play a major role in the process of building their scientific communities, enhancing physics and mathematics education at all levels, and planning research problems related to the specific needs in their region.