Press Release: ICGEB and Elettra Fellowships Agreement
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Two of the major institutes that comprise the Trieste Science System have partnered to support scientists from developing countries. Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, a non-profit, publicly funded international research organisation, is, like ICGEB, located in the AREA Science Park in Trieste. It has an established, international, multidisciplinary research centre, specialised in generating high-quality synchrotron and free-electron laser light and applying it in materials and life sciences. Under a new Agreement, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste will provide a contribution to ICGEB to support scientists from developing countries in structural biology, biophysics, life sciences, and biotechnology, through the Arturo Falaschi Fellowship Programme. ICGEB will manage and coordinate the Fellowships that will be awarded to scientists from developing countries. The Fellowships will pursue research projects of joint interest to both institutes, with candidates being selected from among the applicants to the Arturo Falaschi Fellowship Programme. The agreement also offers the possibility to host awarded scientists on the premises of both institutes and to work with dedicated supervisors/tutors. Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste will also provide the Fellows with the material resources, the instrumentation, and the consumables needed for their study and research activity by means of synchrotron radiation. |
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“This partnership constitutes a tangible result of close collaboration with partner institutes that is welcomed by ICGEB and follows the first joint symposium on multidiscipliary research organised by the ICGEB and Elettra last year.” States Lawrence Banks, ICGEB Director-General. “It is precisely these partnerships that strengthen ICGEB’s activities throughout its constituency.“ |
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