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Training and Education at ICTP

ICTP Associate and Federation Schemes

Training and Education at ICTP

The Associate Scheme is one of the ICTP's oldest Programmes, established to provide support for distinguished scientists in developing countries in an effort to lessen the brain-drain.

The Federation Scheme was established with the aim of giving the opportunity to junior representatives of scientific institutes in developing countries to participate in ICTP's activities.

ICTP Diploma/Post Graduate Programmes

Diplome Programme at the ICTP

The ICTP Diploma/Post Graduate Programmes includes the

  • Diploma Course:
    The Diploma Programme in the three separate fields of Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Physics and Mathematics, differs from other Schools/Colleges and training-cum-research activities that take place at ICTP. The period is for one full year, the level is pre-PhD, participants are younger, and the number is limited. Only 10 scholarships are offered annually in each of the three fields.
  • ICTP-IAEA Sandwich PhD Programme (STEP):
    The ICTP Sandwich Training Educational Programme (STEP) aims at offering fellowship opportunities to Ph.D. candidates from developing countries in scientific fields covered by both the IAEA Technical Cooperation Programmes and falling in the scientific and technical competence of ICTP and its associated institutions. A limited number of fellowships are offered by the ICTP in fields not covered by the ICTP-IAEA Programme.
  • ICTP-ELETTRA Users Programme:
    The ICTP-ELETTRA Users Programme offers access to the synchrotron radiation facility ELETTRA in Trieste in the years 2002-2006 to scientists who are citizens of developing countries and work in those countries. The programme also offers a limited number of grants to cover travel and living expenses of individuals and small groups who are meant to participate in the beamtime at ELETTRA.
  • SESAME Project:
    The SESAME Training Committee calls for applications from scientists from the Middle East to the following programmes: Cooperative research and training for scientists in sectors relevant to the setting up and operation of the machine beamlines.

Grants and Fellowships

ICTP advertises grants and fellowships for scientists from developing and transition countries on its Programmes' web pages. Direct links to the grants and fellowships that are currently available, both internally and outside of ICTP, are provided.

ICTP Visitor's Programme

Besides the high-level training courses, workshops, conferences, topical meetings and regular research activities which take place throughout the year at ICTP, the scientific sections also offer visitor programmes. These activities provide scientists from developing countries with opportunities to conduct research and to study new developments in physics and mathematics thanks to generous funding received by the Centre.

Training and Education Elsewhere

Office of External Activities (OEA)

The purpose of OEA programmes are: to initiate, stimulate or make applicable research and training in the fields of physics and/or mathematics related to locally available resources or local problems of specific relevance to the development of the region. To form and strengthen national/regional communities and research groups by supporting institutions or national societies for physicists and mathematicians at all levels. To enhance physics and mathematics teaching.

Training and Research in Italian Laboratories (TRIL)

The TRIL programme gives scientists from developing countries, central and eastern europe the opportunity to spend periods ranging from a few months to one year at Italian research laboratories of universities, governmental and private institutions, which operate in different branches of Physics. This includes academic studies as well as practical applications and industrial projects. Follow up visits and collaboration programmes are also envisaged.

Ph.D. Program in Environmental Fluid Mechanics

This is a joint program sponsored by ICTP, the University of Trieste, and three Italian scientific institutions in Trieste: CNR-ISMAR, OGS, and OSMER-FVG. Some fellowships are available, including a limited number being offered to students from the developing world. The main objective is to train students for a variety of careers in research, teaching and high-technology in the field of Environmental Fluid Mechanics, with special emphasis on basic fluid mechanics and the physics of large scale flows. The program provides advanced training and research in the following areas:

  • Fundamental Fluid Mechanics (including stability, transition, and turbulence)
  • Hydraulics
  • Meteorology, Climatology and Physics of the Atmosphere
  • Physical Oceanography

Open Access Services

Computer Facilities

The informatic services for the scientific community and for the scientific activities of ICTP include e-mail, world-wide web and other services for the purpose of enabling the scientific community to participate and fulfill the ICTP physics programme. ICTP provides a network infrastructure for the whole site; visitors may bring equipment to ICTP and connect to ICTP's network. Computing resources are allocated to users in the form of accounts and network connections.

ICTP Library

With more than 66,000 books, 439 current print subscriptions and full-text access to nearly 3,600 e-journals, the ICTP Library houses one of the largest collections of specialised literature in physics and mathematics in Europe. The Library's main aim is to offer high quality services and provide information support to the ICTP scientific community, and its visitors, especially those coming from Institutions where resources are not always easily accessible.

Scientific Publications

The ICTP Scientific Publications, available on-line since May 1995, consist of:
- sources of preprints, issued at ICTP, listed also on an "electronic report" service containing details of current preprints issued at ICTP.
- ICTP on-line Lecture Notes Series, with unpublished material presented at the meetings might prove of great interest also to scientists who did not take part in the schools.

Science Dissemination Unit (SDU)

Logo of the SDU

The establishment of the Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) at ICTP is a concrete example of actions oriented to tackle the access to scientific and technological information, one of the most pressing digital and scientific divide issues placed at the center of globalization's asymmetries. The SDU is a concrete example of helping to bridge the digital divide in developing countries and across the north-south divide, in terms of applying low-cost open source information and communication (ICT) technologies.






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