ICTP Partner Institutes

ICTP's Strategic Plan for the next five years puts emphasis on setting up regional centres of excellence around the globe. The idea is to bring ICTP's unique blend of high-quality physics and mathematics education and high-level science meetings closer to scientists everywhere. ICTP has opened regional branches in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Chiapas, México;  and İzmir, Turkey. Future centres are planned for Rwanda and China.

• The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, ICTP SAIFR, is a regional centre for theoretical physics created in collaboration with the State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP) and the Sao Paulo Research Funding Agency (FAPESP). 
• Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics has been established in Mexico in collaboration with the  Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH).
• The ICTP Eurasian Centre for Advanced Research (ICTP – ECAR) is a new regional centre of ICTP, which is currently in the process of being established in Turkey based on the agreement between ICTP and İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH).
• The East African Institute of Fundamental Research (EAIFR), which will open in 2017, will be based at the University of Rwanda's Kigali campus.