Centro di Cultura Scientifica Alessandro Volta is a non-profit organization, created by five Local Public Administrations and linked to ten Universities in Lombardy Region, aimed at providing scientists all over the world with a distinctive environment for fostering scientific communication, interaction and debate. It conducts a conference programme as well as a wide range of study, analysis, and research initiatives, in a diverse set of fields and disciplines, in partership with universities, research centers, national and international agencies.