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The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) is a public organization with the task to perform, promote, disseminate, transfer and improve research activities in key areas of development of knowledge and its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social country. A goal that the Board wishes to pursue after the reform implemented by Legislative Decree 127, dated June 4, 2003, in light of an ambitious mission: to represent a resource to be exploited for socio - economic of the country. At the base, the conviction that the research and development, crucial for the competitiveness of national economy, could generate new jobs, greater prosperity and greater social cohesion.
In the new model designed for the CNR, the need to balance the preservation of spaces for spontaneous research on any subject, it meets the need to establish agreed goals and credible and to pursue them in a structured way, as happens some time in the main industrialized countries, "sewing" together the contributions of various research units and limiting the damage of spatial dispersion.
E 'committed to this organization, where the customer of the research is represented by the eleven departments - Earth and Environment, Energy and Transport, Agriculture and Food, Medicine, Life Sciences, Molecular Design, Materials and Devices, Systems Advanced Manufacturing, Information Technologies and Communication, Cultural Identity, Cultural Heritage - which define the projects, based on the needs of potential research, and they monitor lizard through real notice, addressed to the Institutes. These are the structures that carry out research and are characterized by the skills, experimental facilities, the excellence of researchers.
The resulting overall structure is the so-called "matrix structure", where programs and skills are distinct and cross each other. In particular, the matrix structure of the CNR sees 85 macros - some 650 projects and contracts.
As for the spatial distribution, the RNC is present throughout Italy through a network of institutions, to promote a widespread distribution of its powers over the national territory and to facilitate contacts and collaborations with institutions and local industries. |