CRS4, also known as Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (Italian

Italian language

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: Centro di Ricerca, Sviluppo e Studi Superiori in Sardegna), is an interdisciplinary research center, founded by the Sardinia Autonomous Region

Sardinia

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 on November 30, 1990. Since 2003, the center is located in the Technology Park of Sardinia, in the commune of Pula

Pula, Italy

Pula is a comune in the Province of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 25 km southwest of Cagliari...

. Several companies and research groups have chosen to establish their activities on this campus, giving rise to a thriving R&D community.

CRS4 is a private research center, but its shareholder is a regional agency: Sardegna Ricerche.

The center, initially headed by the Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

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 in Physics

Physics

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 Carlo Rubbia

Carlo Rubbia

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, made the first Italian Website

Website

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 in 1993, and collaborated to the creation of the first european web newspaper in 1994 (L'Unione Sarda

L'Unione Sarda

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) and to one of the first and largest internet providers (Video On Line). In this sense CRS4 has been crucial for the development of the Internet

Internet

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 and Web

World Wide Web

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in Sardinia .

Currently about 200 researchers are working at CRS4 and the 4 main strategic research sectors are:

• Biomedicine
• Data Fusion
• Energy and Environment
• Information Society

External links

• Sardegna Ricerche (in English)
• CRS4 (in English and Italian)