The Institute can provide paid services, in compliance with the current Regulations for the Generation, Management and Enhancement of Intellectual Property on the results of CNR research, for services on behalf of third parties (Contractual research).
 
The laboratories of the Institute of Polar Sciences carry out chemical, chemical-physical, microbiological analyzes on various environmental matrices, issuing the relevant certificate or technical / scientific reports.
 
The analyzes are performed ONLY UPON REQUEST sent by email to the address of the Laboratory / Instrumentation Contact and in cc to the Director of the Institute (direttore.isp AT cnr.it) for the Venice headquarters and the secondary site of Padua or to Head of branches (responsabile_bo AT cnr.it; responsabile_me AT cnr.it; responsabile_rm AT cnr.it) for the secondary sites of Bologna, Messina and Rome, containing the name, address and signature of the Applicant. The analyzes to be carried out, the number of samples and everything else to be requested must be listed.
 
By the mere fact of submitting the request, the rules and consequent charges are understood to be known and accepted by the Applicant. After receiving the request, the Contact Person, having obtained the clearance from the Director / Head of the branches, will send a cost quotation and indicate an expected date of delivery of the results.
 
The samples to be analyzed must be sent, free of all charges, to the branches of the contact person according to the methods indicated in the quotation. The rates that will be communicated are net of VAT and include the execution of the analyzes and the sending of a form containing the related results. No interpretation and / or evaluation of the analysis results will be made by the laboratory involved.