The Italian National Research Council (CNR) is the largest public research institution in Italy, the only one under the Research Ministry performing multidisciplinary activities.
The mission is to perform research in its own Institutes, to promote innovation and competitiveness of the national industrial system, to promote the internationalization of the national research system, to provide technologies and solutions to emerging public and private needs, to advice Government and other public bodies, and to contribute to the qualification of human resources.
The CNR scientific network is composed of 11 Departments and 109 Institutes.
The Department for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is involved in EIT ICT Labs. All the strategic lines of the ICT Department are mainly accomplished through its role of hub in accordance with CNR's general strategy. The Department collects its resources both from public and private entities, interested in boosting the research activity within the ICT field.
The CNR ICT Institutes involved in EIT ICT Labs are:
- Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies (IMATI)
- Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA)
- Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR)
- Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT)
- Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science "Antonio Ruberti" (IASI)
- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC)
- Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT)
- Institute of Information Science and Technology "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI)
The research groups belonging to the ICT Department are active in the following thematic sectors:
- Devices and Technologies for Telematic
- NetworksData Mining, Ontologies and Semantic Web
- High Performance Computing, Grid and Cloud Computing
- Multimodal and Multidimensional Content and Media
- Software Science and Engineering
- Modelling and Simulation of Complex Systems
- Security
- Bioinformatics