The Italian Summer Students Program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Summary

Since 1984 the INFN groups have been running a 2-month summer training program for Italian students at Fermilab. In 1984 the program involved only a few physics students from the Pisa group, but it was later extended to other groups and to engineering students. Since 2004 the program has been supported in part by DOE in the frame of an exchange agreement with INFN. In 2007 the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa) established an agreement with Fermilab to share the cost of 4 engineering students each year. In the 34 years of its history, the program has involved approximately 500 Italian students from more than 20 Italian universities and from some European universities. In the years 2010-2017, with the support of INFN, INAF, ASI, ISSNAF and the Cultural Association of Italians at Fe