The Site

The Headquarters of the Centre, located in Trieste (Italy), coordinate the research programmes of the three Components located in Trieste, Italy, New Delhi, India and Cape Town, South Africa, and provide the foundation upon which the ICGEB training and institutional activities are implemented. Outstations are located in Ca' Tron, Treviso and Monterotondo, Rome.

The ICGEB Training programme comprises both short-term training (monothematic courses on specific subjects at the forefront of scientific research) and long-term training activities aimed at hands-on capacity-building of scientists, and which are fully incorporated within the work of the research groups. The ICGEB also operates through an international Ph.D. programme jointly developed with academic institutions of world renown.

ICGEB Headquarters also coordinate the Collaborative Research Programme, a unique resource of funding aimed at financing research projects implemented in Member States, as well as the relationship between the Centre and its industrial partners, ensuring the transfer of technologies developed at its Components.

ICGEB fosters innovative approaches for industrial relations at a global level and enhances joint ventures and other partner-oriented approaches for the commercialisation of biotechnology. Furthermore, the Centre provies its constituency with a number of institutional activities on issues at the borderline between science and the policy of science, such as biosafety, intellectual property rights and ethics of science.