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ICTP operates under a tripartite agreement between the Italian Government, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). ICTP is a UNESCO Category 1 Institute. Find out more about our partners at the links below:
In 1964, Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam established ICTP in Trieste, Italy, acting in collaboration with Italian physicist Paolo Budinich.
ICTP strives to boost science in developing countries to an international level by encouraging North-South collaboration, and to stimulate networking of scientists in disadvantaged regions to reach a critical mass of researchers through South-Sout
