Sapienza University of Rome is the largest university in Europe and the second in the world for number of students and the wide academic offer that includes over 250 degree programmes and about 80 PhD programmes. 

Sapienza plans and carries out important scientific investigations in almost all disciplines, achieving high-standard results both on a national and on an international level, thanks to the work of its 11 faculties, 63 departments and several centres devoted to scientific research. 

The Research Area of Sapienza University of Rome (hereinafter called ASuR) supports his researchers scouting funding opportunities and exploiting the research results through a constant dialogue with territories, public administrations, enterprises and stakeholders at national and international level. ASuR copes with the scouting of funding opportunities, the mapping of internal competences, the matching for internal and external competences in competitive partnerships and the writing of project proposals, fostering the dissemination and exploitation of the research results. Moreover, the ASuR provides technology transfer services, as well as support to entrepreneurship, start-ups and spin-offs. The activities in this field concern, among others, the incubation and the development of research ideas, the precommercial exploitation of research results, and the provision of high-level education courses aimed at fostering and enhancing the relations between researchers and business communities, and at developing the entrepreneurship abilities of the young researchers both singularly (spin off) and in partnership with industrial groups.