The Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) is a Portuguese Higher Education Public Institution with a defined mission in creating, transmitting and diffusing technical, scientific and professional knowledge through the articulation of study, applied research and experimental development. In 35 years, IPB has prepared more than twenty thousand graduates, establishing itself as a paramount agent to the regional and national development, and the decentralisation and democratisation of the access to higher education.
The Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise “G. Caporale” (IZSAM) is a public health institute with administrative and managerial autonomy, which operates as a technical and scientific arm of the Italian Ministry of Health and of the Abruzzo and Molise Regions, performing analytical work for the public veterinary services and providing the technical and scientific collaboration necessary to enable them to carry out their functions in the field of veterinary public health.