Research: 1.5 billion to public bodies, +10 million on 2024

The Ordinary Fund for Research Bodies and Institutions (Foe) for 2025 is approximately one and a half billion euros, with an increase of 10 million compared to last year. The Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, signed the decree that allocates 1,485,883,600 euros for the ordinary functioning of the public research bodies supervised by the Mur.

"The national research institutes are strategic outposts - explains Bernini - this year too we have increased resources not only for their ordinary functioning, but above all so that they can increase extraordinary project initiatives".

As part of Foe 2025, the Italian contribution to the budget of the Intergovernmental Commission for Research in the Mediterranean Sea has been reactivated. The funding amounts to 365,024 euros and will allow Italy to regain the right to participate and vote in the decisions of the organization. Our country had not had an official representative on the board of Ciesm since 2016.

Among the various entities to receive the funds are the National Research Council with 735,609,098 euros, with an increase of 134,000 euros compared to 2024, the Institute of Nuclear Physics which receives 354,859,910 euros, recording an increase of 4,538,080 euros, the National Institute of Astrophysics with 152,515,674 euros, with an increase of 2,086,248 euros, and the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology which is assigned 84,995,113 euros, with an increase of 1,251,487 euros. The remaining availability, equal to 40,314,760 euros — an increase of 472,082 euros compared to 39,842,678 euros in 2024 — is allocated to three main funding items, in particular Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Indire and Invalsi.