CINI (National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics) is the main point of reference for the Italian national academic research in the fields of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Information Technology.
Established in 6.12.1989, CINI is under the supervision of the competent Italian Ministry for University and Research. It includes public universities, only. According to its bylaws, it is an in–house subject w.r.t. its founders, participants and legitimately customers. The Consortium is submitted to the periodic Quality Evaluation of its research activities by ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of the University System and Research.
The Consortium involves 1,300+ professors of both Computer Science (Italian SSD INF/01) and Computer Engineering (Italian SSD ING-INF/05), belonging to 39 public universities: