Agencies and Institutions

IUSS works with universities, research bodies, public administrations, hospitals and companies, in Italy and abroad. These collaborations are formalised through agreements, framework agreements and implementing agreements, and mainly concern doctoral education, research, institutional relations and student services.

Highlighted collaborations

National PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate Change, with the participation of numerous universities and research bodies.
National PhD in Space Science and Technology, with the University of Trento.
National PhD in Earth Observation, with Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Salerno.
PhD in The Human Mind and its Explanations (HuME), with Scuola Normale Superiore and the University of Milan.
MEET – Medicine Enhanced by Engineering Technologies: excellence pathway and joint master’s programme, with the Universities of Pavia and Pisa and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.
ReLUIS (Network of University Laboratories of Earthquake Engineering) and Campiuss (urban regeneration, with the Municipality of Pavia): framework agreements.

Universities and advanced schools

Advanced schools and institutions with special status: Gran Sasso Science Institute; IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa); Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa).

Polytechnic universities: Bari; Milan; Turin.

Public universities (University of …): Bari “Aldo Moro”; Bergamo; Brescia; Cagliari; Calabria; Camerino; Cassino and Southern Lazio; Catania; Chieti-Pescara “G. d’Annunzio”; Eastern Piedmont; Ferrara; Florence; Genoa; Insubria; L’Aquila; Macerata; Messina; Milan; Milano-Bicocca; Modena and Reggio Emilia; Naples “Federico II”; Naples “L’Orientale”; Padua; Palermo; Parma; Pavia; Perugia; Pisa; Reggio Calabria “Mediterranea”; Rome “La Sapienza”; Rome “Tor Vergata”; Salerno; Sassari; Siena; Teramo; Trento; Trieste; Turin; Udine; Urbino “Carlo Bo”; Venice “Ca’ Foscari”. Also: Iuav University of Venice and Marche Polytechnic University.

Other universities: Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome; Catholic University of the Sacred Heart; Free University of Bozen-Bolzano; LIUC – Cattaneo University; LUISS University; Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.

Research bodies and foundations

Research bodies: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; CNR – National Research Council and its institutes; ENEA; Eurac Research; Edmund Mach Foundation; GARR; IEO – European Institute of Oncology; INAF – National Institute for Astrophysics; Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research; National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità); ISPRA – Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; OGS – National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics; ReLUIS.

Foundations: CMCC – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change; CNAO – National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy; Eucentre Foundation; GEM Foundation; INF-ACT Foundation; Foundation for Sustainable Development; Telethon Foundation.

Public administrations and institutions

Agency for Territorial Cohesion; AgID – Agency for Digital Italy; ARPA Sicilia; ARPAV (Veneto Regional Environmental Protection Agency); ART-ER; ARTI Puglia; ATP Nuoro; River Basin District Authorities (Po, Southern Apennines, Sicily); Lombardy Region; Metropolitan City of Turin; Municipality of Brescia; Municipality of Pavia; Municipality of Santorso – “Villa Miari” Municipal Institution; Pavia Prison – Prison Health Service; CRUI – Conference of Italian University Rectors; Indire and the Erasmus+ National Agency; National School of Administration.

Colleges of merit and student support

Almo Collegio Borromeo; Collegio Ghislieri; Collegio Nuovo – Mattei Foundation; EDISU – Agency for the Right to University Study; Collegio delle Università Milanesi Foundation; Santa Caterina da Siena University College Foundation.

Hospitals and IRCCS

ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda; Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation; IRCCS Foundation “Carlo Besta” Neurological Institute; IRCCS Foundation “San Matteo” Polyclinic; IRCCS Mondino Foundation; IRCCS Maugeri Clinical Scientific Institutes; IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital; IRCCS San Camillo.

Companies & associations

Companies: A2A; Acqua Novara.VCO; Ahlstrom Italia; Alkemy; Aon Reinsurance Italia; ARST; Arthur J. Gallagher; Autostrade per l’Italia; AviTem; BAIC Agro Italia; CBC Europe; Copan; Cultipharm; Dompé Farmaceutici; Électricité de France; Ergo; Estra; FGL International; Fyteko; Get Open; Impresa Pelagosphera; Intesa Sanpaolo; IPSI – Istituto Psicologico; IrIdES; IRIS; Istituto Psicologico Italiano; MITO Technology; Nepsy; Noto Sondaggi; Officine Fratelli Bertolotti; Opella Healthcare Italy; Philochem; Proger; Sanpellegrino; Save (Marco Polo Airport, Venice); StrigoLab; Sustainability for Safety; SWS Engineering; Techbau; Techfem; Teknion; Telespazio; Versalis; Xenia Reply; Zimmer Biomet.

Associations and NGOs: AIAS ETS Milan; Poym Association; CISP – International Committee for the Development of Peoples; COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale; UIL – Italian Labour Union; VIS – International Volunteering for Development.

International partners

Universities: Aarhus University; Danube Private University; ENS Paris-Saclay; ETH Zurich; Imperial College London; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); Maastricht University; Norwegian University of Life Sciences; Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; RMIT University; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU); Teesside University; UNAM – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; UNED – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca; University of Amsterdam (ASCoR); University of Birmingham; University of California, Berkeley; University of Cambridge; University of Campinas (UNICAMP); University of Copenhagen; University of Eastern Finland; University of Edinburgh; University of Glasgow; University of Groningen; University of Hamburg; University of Innsbruck; University of Leeds; University of Lleida; University of Oviedo; University of Zurich; Université Claude Bernard; Université d’Orléans; Université de Rouen Normandie; Université Gustave Eiffel; Washington State University.

Research institutes: European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC); Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research; HES-SO Valais-Wallis; IGF Austria; INRAE; Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier; Ruđer Bošković Institute.

Hospitals: Boston Children’s Hospital; Marseille University Hospital; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

International organisations: Agence Française de Développement; CERN; IFAD – International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Last updated: October 2026