International Cooperation National Programmes
MAE Programmes
MIUR- CRUI Programmes
MAE Programmes
Executive Programmes for Scientific and Technological Cooperation (Website)
Bilateral Executive Programmes take into account the priorities set out in the National Research Programmes and the European Union’s Framework Programmes.
Under these programmes, the parties develop joint research projects in various sectors, which have normally been identified in Framework Agreements. In general, their duration is two or three years.
To renew the Executive Programmes, notices are published electronically to:
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collect information on mobility projects that envisage exchanges of researchers (on a bilateral basis);
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draw together preliminary reports on projects of major importance that can be funded under the provisions of Law 401/1990.
MIUR- CRUI Programmes
Interuniversity International Cooperation (Website)
The general objective of this programme consists in promoting collaboration between Italian universities and Higher education institutions from the Countries indicated in the annual call for proposals.
It is based on a collaboration relationship between partner Universities regulated by valid agreements or conventions undersigned by the Rectors, in which explicit reference is made to the proposed initiative.
MIUR- CRUI Programmes
VINCI Programme (Website)

The objective of the VINCI Programme is to encourage the harmonisation between the university teaching systems in Italy and France.
The programme, managed by the Università Italo-Francese, offers: financial support for mobility in Joint Courses; contributions for mobility for doctoral thesis in Joint Doctorates; contrats doctoraux for doctoral thesis in Joint Doctorates (exclusively for the French part); co-financing for research grants (exclusively for the Italian part); collaborations between Doctoral Schools.
MIUR- CRUI Programmes
VIGONI Programme (Website)
It is an exchange programme for researchers from Italian and German universities, finalized to intensify scientific cooperation between higher education institutions of the two Countries.
The Programme - financed by the Italian Ministery of the Education, University and Research and from the Ateneo Italo-Tedesco and from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch German Dienst (DAAD) – consists in bilateral research teams exchanges, as an opportunity to establish lasting relationships, to define the mutual interest and the potentiality in the development of common research projects.
MIUR- CRUI Programmes
GALILEO Programme (Website)

It is a scientific cooperation programme between Italy and France, founded by the Italian Ministery of the Education, University and Research and by the French Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes and the Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche.
The objective of the Programme is to develop high quality scientific cooperation between research centres and laboratories of the two countries on common projects, favouring research exchanges between young scholars and stimulating interest in new research fields.