Presentation

Founded in 1993, the Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche (CFR – Ferrara Research Consortium) is a non-profit organisation with public and private participation, aimed at the promotion, development and exploitation of human, scientific, technological and economic resources mainly of the territory of Ferrara.

The mission of CFR is to promote and to manage research, innovation and technology transfer, by offering itself as a decisive and preferential partner for universities, research centres, public institutions and industrial companies in Italy and abroad, besides acting as a link between the generators of know-how, industrial organisations and the working world.

The CFR chiefly operates in the forefront fields of:

• the promotion of the precompetitive research and the technological transfer for industrial application;
• the EU, ministerial and regional Programmes, and the coordination of all the activities involved in the participation and management of the various types of operation;
• the organization of scientific events on a national and international scale, the management of post-university Master courses, advanced training courses, and CME (Continuing Medical Education) training courses aimed at doctors and health workers