Researchers
Curiosity, intuition, passion, creativity, tenaciousness: these are just some of the aspects that describe those fellows who have decided to rely on development and knowledge, making science their job.
Thanks to its network spread all over the Italian country and to the great variety of research topics, the Cnr plays a key role facing the challenges that are at the hearth of the international agenda of the research: healthcare, demographic changes and wellness, food safety and sustainable agriculture, energy and environmental protection, accessibility of resources, intelligent transport. This section offers a showcase of their work.
Fiji Blue Fishing Project kicks off in Suva: transforming Fiji's fisheries towards sustainability
The Fiji Blue Fishing Project officially launched with a two-day event in Suva on October 23–24, marking the start of an EU-funded initiative to strengthen sustainable fisheries and circular economy value chains in Fiji. The project is coordinated by the Institute for Research on Innovation and Services for Development of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr-Iriss) and funded by the European Union SWITCH-Asia Programme under the EU Global Gateway strategy, with a total budget of EUR 1.87 million
Arctic Circle Rome Forum - Polar Dialogue: Call for Proposals
The Arctic Circle Secretariat is accepting Session Proposals for the 2026 Arctic Circle Rome Forum, to be held March 3-4. The deadline for submitting proposals is 23:59, November 28, 2025 - Alaska Standard Time (AKST)
Third Call to CNR Research Infrastructures Transnational Access
The project supports research and innovation activities across these areas by granting access to its infrastructures based on scientific excellence, relevance, and a peer-review evaluation process. In the context of this project several CNR (National Research Council of Italy) institutes are offering access to a wide range of research infrastructures, giving researchers the opportunity to carry out free research activities and to engage in international collaborations aimed at accelerating technological innovation
Joint lab projects
Cnr finances joint labs projects based on proposals made by Italian and Foreign researchers together, aimed at sharing research facilites, skills and expertise
Opening Research Assessment - Final Conference of the Horizon Europe project GraspOS
For research assessment to truly support Open Science, we must prioritise transparency, inclusivity, and fairness in how we recognise research activities and contributions. This means not only ensuring that all contributions to Open Science are valued but also promoting openness in the data, tools, services, and other resources used in the assessment process
Descartes Laboratory 2025-2026 (Season 2)
The "Descartes Laboratory" seminar is an online branch of the “Seminari Cartesiani di Villa Mirafiori”, organized by the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (Cnr-Iliesi) and La Sapienza Department of Philosophy. The "Descartes Laboratory" is organized by Fabrizio Baldassarri and Simone Guidi, and it is planned to engage with the most recent works on Descartes as well as on 17th-century philosophy and natural philosophy connected with Cartesianism. The Laboratory involves PhD students, as well as post-doc researchers, giving them a space for discussion, which is of course open to anyone who would like to intervene
Call for proposals of joint lab projects
Launch of two Cnr Joint Lab Projects - Research Area: Engineering, ICT and technologies for energy and transportation (three-year period 2022-2024)
Breaking barriers in biotech: How the EIC Women Leadership Programme empowered Silvia Scaglione to lead with impact
The EIC Women Leadership Programme is equipping women innovators across Europe with the skills and networks to take their ventures to the next level. Among its participants is EIC Pathfinder (FET Open) awardee Silvia Scaglione, Research director at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), and founder and chief scientist at React4life. In this story, Silvia shares how the programme has helped her refine her leadership style, strengthen her communication with industry partners, and gain practical tools to grow her company, all while continuing her mission to bring more ethical and human-relevant drug testing technologies to the forefront
Cnr position on the European Innovation Council
The Italian National Research Council is giving its contribution to the ongoing debate on the European Innovation Council, (Eic), the body for innovation proposed by the European Commission to boost the research and innovation system at a European level
Science & Technology Digital Library
The Cnr S&T Digital Library makes available research products, datasets, data and information on research activities, projects, R&D actors, their expertise and skills, as well as digitised cultural and historical heritage contents
Journal and newsletters
Cnr produces several journals and newsletters to which you can subscribe, usually for free, directly from the websites of the institutes that produce them
Open access
The Italian National Research Council is deeply involved in adopting and supporting the principles of the European Chart for the free circulation of knowledge
Protection and valorisation of IPRs
Cnr supports and encourages its researchers in protecting and valorizing the results of their research, promoting their exploitation in collaboration with industrial partners and/or other institutions
The Bluemed italian paper
An overview of relevance, obstacles and proposals of the key sectors for a blue growth, issued by the Cnr Bluemed Working Group
Researcher’s life
On the Cnr webtv platform the portraits of some Cnr researchers in their daily routine, both at work and in their private life
Cnr E-recruitment
The on line application system for the recruitment of staff and other types of employement and training of the National Research Council of Italy