In accordance with art. 4, section 2 of Italian Legislative Decree No. 213/2009 on the reorganisation of government bodies, not less than 7% of the ordinary fund for research agencies will be set aside to “finance specific programmes and projects, including joint ventures, proposed by government bodies”.
In 2011 the INFN presented the following “Competitive projects”:
| ABC | Technologies to be applied to the study and protection of the environment and the development of cultural heritage |
| ERMES- WORLD | Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring for Earth Sciences - World Reference Laboratory and New Developments |
| ITALRAD | Italian Radioactivity Project |
| LAR |
Large-mass liquid argon detectors
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| LARAMED |
Laboratory for the production of radionuclides for medicine
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| LHC |
LHC experiments
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| LNGS-T |
Gran Sasso national laboratory - Timing
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| LNS-ASTROFISICA NUCLEARE |
Development of experimental resources for advanced research in nuclear astrophysics with stable and radioactive beams at the Southern national laboratory
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| UNA-MV |
Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics and Applications-MegaVolts
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| MAFTUS |
Development of infrastructures for the study and characterisation of materials for nuclear fusion reactors
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| MUNES |
Multidisciplinary Neutron Source
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| RIVRAD |
Silicon sensors and advanced electronics for radiation detection
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| RSA |
Advancement of research and development of hadron therapy in Italy
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| SPARC |
Sources for Plasma Accelerators and Radiation Compton with Lasers and Beams
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| SPES | Selective Production of Exotic Species |