The Short Term Mobility (STM) Program enables Italian scholars to carry out research activities in cooperation with foreign Universities and Research Institutions of clear international standing.
It also enables highly qualified foreign researchers, belonging to foreign Universities and Research Institutions of clear international standing, to be invited to carry out research in cooperation with CNR Instutes so that Italian research can benefit from international activity and research taking place in our country.
The Programme has been implemented with success since 1995,in the framework of the initiatives for the development of international scientific cooperation. In particular, it has allowed the setting up and continuation of many cooperation activities which have brought about high - quality and important joint research results and the creation and implementation of highly specialized techniques in many different fields. To participate to the STM Programme, please refer to the relevant CALL.
The National Research Council (CNR) is a public organization; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country. To this end, the activities of the organization are divided into macro areas of interdisciplinary scientific and technological research, concerning several sectors: biotechnology, medicine, materials, environment and land, information and communications, advanced systems of production, judicial and socio-economic sciences, classical studies and arts.