The Trieste International Foundation (FIT)
The Trieste International Foundation (FIT) promotes progress, freedom and the dissemination of science, fostering local and international links in accordance with the motto “Freedom for Sciences, Sciences for Freedom”.
Since 2021, the FIT has hosted the administrative secretariat of the IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), a non-governmental organisation that has represented the global physics community since 1922. Based at the Porto Vecchio Electrical Substation, the FIT provides logistical and administrative support to the IUPAP to foster cooperation among physicists and the use of science for the benefit of humanity.
Since 2022, FIT has also been collaborating with the National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS) on the Laboratory for Quantitative Sustainability (TLQS) project. This hub brings together young OGS research fellows and lecturers from the Universities of Trieste and Udine, the ICTP and SISSA. The research focuses on modelling applied to seven key themes: the blue planet, food and biodiversity, climate change, data science for human ecology, energy transition, social sciences and equity, and spatial tools for the habitat.
www.quantitativesustainability.org www.iupap.org
Opportunities for students and researchers
A three-year project to digitise and promote the FIT’s documentary heritage.
The project serves as an ideal methodological and creative workshop for students, art historians, curators and researchers. It involves the digitisation, classification and archiving of the documents contained in 200 archive folders, which bear witness to the inception of the ‘Trieste City of Science’ project. The ultimate aim is to organise a public exhibition of the most significant material: this exhibition could form the basis for a subsequent immersive installation, where archival documents will interact with multimedia content, visual installations and original video productions.
By contacting the FIT secretariat, students and researchers can have the opportunity to undertake internships, write dissertations based on the collected material, and perhaps actively collaborate on the development of the curatorial concept. Taking part in this project means combining the rigour of scientific research with the most modern techniques of visual storytelling and museography, transforming Trieste’s historical memory into an experience open to all citizens, so that it is not lost over time. In addition to contributions from supporting members, the project has also received funding from the Casalis Foundation and is supported by the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region.