The Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA), founded in France in 1978, is a nonprofit organisation that promotes research in Mathematics in developing countries. Located in Nice, it is a UNESCO Category 2 centre. It benefits from the financial support of Germany, France, Norway, Spain and Switzerland. Each year CIMPA co-organises and sponsors numerous activities in developing countries; each activity is funded through a process of calls for proposals in one of the following categories:
- CIMPA Schools: This is the historical activity of CIMPA, it focuses on areas where there is a real drive to develop mathematics and where there is a scope for a research project. Around twenty Research Schools are organised each year, involving participants from the host country and other developing countries.
- CIMPA Courses: The programme provides funding for a guest lecturer to teach a master or research level courses in mathematics.
- CIMPA Fellowships : CIMPA funds the participation of young mathematicians from developing countries to short-term thematic international programs organised by some of our partner institutions. A call for applications is opened for each program.
- CIMPA-ICTP Research in Pairs : This programme, in partnership with the ICTP, makes it possible for researchers in mathematics based in a developing country to come to Europe to collaborate with a colleague.
Other activities strongly supported by CIMPA include those developed in close collaboration with continental mathematical societies, such as the Schools in Partnership, which aim to introduce undergraduate and Master students from developing countries to research in mathematics.
