Torino City of Science

Torino is in many ways a laboratory-city.

In Italy it has generated the automotive, aeronautics, fashion and design, publishing, telephony, radio, television, and space industries where it maintains top-ranking positions.
It can count on industrial and public research centres such as the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, The National Astrophysics Institute, the Cancer Research and Care Institute and the National Research Council.
It hosts the National Metrological Institute (INRiM).
New centres of excellence are being developed rapidly in cutting-edge sectors: neurosciences, genetics, nanotechnologies, ICT.
It is home to the International Book Fair and important European and UN institutions.

This wealth of initiatives in 2010 will make Piemonte, with 2.9% of GDP invested in research, the Italian region closest to the Lisbon goals.