CIRPS, Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, has been founded in1988 to
co-ordinate, at University level, Italian development cooperation activities. Its mission is the promotion and implementation of
policies, programmes and activities related to sustainable economic and social development at national and international level.
It carries out activities within international development cooperation, higher education and research with a particular focus on
sustainable development, and scientific and technological services. CIRPS has a multiannual expertise in energy systems and their
environmental impact, industrial power plants, renewable energies, biomedical technologies, quality and safety, mechanical
technologies, capacity building in the above mentioned issues and technology transfer to SMEs. It has a strong experience in Human
Resource development and it is involved in several tempus project in Balkan Countries.
There is an existing relationship between La Sapienza and UPKM and there have been several study visits in exchange. This
University is valued for its considerable experience in project work, Tempus in particular. Therefore La Sapienza will have major
role in applying Tempus precepts and also in sharing a wealth of experience across many facets of quality assurance. The project
experience is wide and includes expertise in diagnostics. So La Sapienza will be a great value in applied logisics, measurement
techniques and evaluation.