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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.
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
