Letter of Intent starts an India-ICTP Co-operation Fund with the theoretical physics centre at Trieste

15 November 2026

India and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics have begun work on an India-ICTP Co-operation Fund.
A Letter of Intent for the fund was signed between the Department of Science and Technology and the Centre.
It was signed during the visit of the Union Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Jitendra Singh, to the Centre at Trieste in Italy.
For the Indian side the document was exchanged by Praveenkumar Somasundaram, who heads international cooperation in the department.
The Centre is a global hub for research and teaching in physics, mathematics and related fields.
Indian bodies including the Department of Science and Technology, CSIR, universities and the IITs have long worked with it through joint research and exchange programmes.
The new fund is meant to give that engagement a steadier structure and to help more Indian researchers travel and work there.
The name of the fund, the Indian department involved and the Centre's city are the facts worth holding.