The Coordinating Office of the National and International Research Centres in Friuli Venezia Giulia

The Coordinating Office of Research Centres represents the Network including the main regional scientific institutions.

Formed in 2004, the Coordinating Office aims at stimulating synergies between public research and the industrial sector, enabling scientific cooperation at international level, and further strengthening human assets in the region through initiatives aimed at promoting the mobility of researchers and scientists coming from all over the world.

Developed thanks to a strong spirit of cooperation and the significant support by the national and regional Authorities, the Coordinating Network concretely laid the basis for a “real sharing of interests, strategies, and actions, among the main scientific institutions in the region” and further extended and strengthened its presence within the territory until it reached its present dimension, including over 40 bodies.

The main feature of the office is its multidisciplinary character which, thanks to the wide range of knowledge and technologies available within the area, facilitates the creation of indispensable synergies for interdisciplinary research activities, to the extent that, presently, it is a proper, single body, “a real coordinating office of scientific, technological, and educational centres of excellence located in the area”: a reality, benefiting from the experience by prestigious research institutions such as International Research centres, three Universities, and many other scientific centres of excellence.

Furthermore, thanks to the synergic action carried out by the Coordinating Office over the last few years many national and international events have been organised, addressing the subjects of technical-scientific dissemination and innovation spread, which contributed to reinforcing the international role played by regional centres.