Not many people know that apart from its natural and cultural attributes, is also home to an exceptionally large and diverse scientific community, in the form of a huge variety of research institutes and infrastructures: the Area Science Park.

THE AREA SCIENCE PARK high-profile life science research institutes with AND ITS RESEARCH INSTITUTES headquarters in the Area Science Park are the TRIESTE, International Centre for Genetic Engineering ITALIAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE The vast majority of the scientific research and Biotechnology – with labs also in New Across the road from the , conducted in the region takes place in the Delhi and Cape Town (www.icgeb.org) – and one can find the campus of the Abdus Salam Area Science Park, whose two main campuses the Centre for Biological Medicine. International Centre for Theoretical Physics are located in the Carso hills, which overlook (or ICTP), cosponsored by UNESCO and the Trieste. The Park contains about 90 research Italian government. For more than 50 years, institutes and high-tech companies, which in TRIESTE, SCIENCE HUB IN the ICTP has been at the forefront of scien- turn employ roughly 2,500 people, in research tific advancement in the developing world, and technical positions. In particular, the Baso- In the unspoiled countryside of the Carso fostering young scientists from Africa, vizza campus of the park, which is only a few ki- hills, in the town of , one finds the and South America, and conducting cutting lometers away from Italy’s border with , headquarters of the International School for Ad- edge research in theoretical physics. Spread is home to the two largest scientific facilities in vanced Studies of Trieste (SISSA), which has across the suburbs of Cologna and Guar- Italy: the Elettra synchrotron laboratory and the world-renowned research and student-training diella is the main campus of the University of newly built Free Electron Laser Source FERMI. programmes in mathematical and physical Trieste. Its long-standing research tradition Here, electrons are accelerated at relativistic sciences, as well as neurobiology and neu- in science and technology, boosted by the speeds in order to generate focused electro- rosciences. This diverse and multidisciplinary growth of other scientific institutes nearby, magnetic radiation, which is then used in mul- scientific community, composed of thousands has enabled the to rank tidisciplinary research by scientists from more of scientists living and working in Trieste and in the top 200 universities in the world in than 50 countries, in their efforts to explore the its surroundings, makes it the number one these disciplines. hidden secrets of all phases of matter. Some destination for science on the Italian peninsula...... BUSINESS AREA SCIENCE PARK

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1 & 2 • The Padriciano and Basovizza cam- puses. 3 • Thousands of scientists from diverse fields work and live in Trieste. 4 & 5 • Researchers in the Elettra synchrotron labo- ratory. 6 & 7 • The ICGEB in Trieste runs 18 research laboratories that contribute to solving some of the major problems affecting health, nutrition, agriculture and industrial development. 4

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ITALY Località Padriciano, 99, 34149 Trieste, Italy Tel.: +39 040 375 5111 5 7 |• www.areasciencepark.it

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