The international  character of the Doctoral Programme in Physics is implemented through the following actions:

• several collaborations with foreign Unviersities and Research Institutions
• attendance of foreign PhD students
• courses and seminars held in English
• research programmes carried out with agreements for "Co-Tutelle de Thèse"
• referees of hte PhD thesis and member of the examiantion committeee coming from foreign Institutes or Universities
• foreign professors in the Doctoral Programme board

Currently the Doctoral Programme has in progress the following agreements:

incoming:

• with the University of Heidelberg (Germany)
• (in the  final phase) with the AGH University (University of Science and Technology) Krakow (Poland)
• with the University of Ghent (Belgium)

outgoing:

• (in final phase) one agreement of Co-Tutelle de Thèse and "co-funding of a scholarship with Sorbonne Univerdity (France)
•  a thesis co-supervision and doctoral scholarship co-funding agreement with the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France)
• (under definition) a double degree agreement with the Universität Leipzig (Germany)

collaborations with foreign Unviersities and Research Institutions:

• Laboratori internazionali di grandi strumentazioni Grenoble (ESRF e ILL, Francia),
• CERN (Svizzera);
• University of Geneva (Svizzera);
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( USA);
• Argonne National Laboratory (USA)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory ( USA)
• University of Miami (USA)
• TUM-Heinz Maier Leibnitz Zentrum – FRMII (Germania)
• Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH (Germania)