AstroFIt is a co-funded project by the Marie Curie Actions of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7) and INAF, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics.

AstroFIt  aims at recruiting talented and experienced researchers that have carried out research in other countries. Incoming and Re-integration mobility are supported.  AstroFIt offers the chance to gain experience at INAF structures for a period of two years in the following sectors: galaxies and cosmology; stars, stellar population and interstellar medium; sun and solar system; relativistic and particle astrophysics; advanced technology and instrumention.

AstroFIt supports career development plans, with training provided also for non-scientific and complementary skills.

The National Institute for Astrophysics (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica – INAF) is the Italian public research organization that promotes, performs and coordinates astrophysics and astronomy research in Italy and cooperates with universities and other national and international organizations. INAF has approximately 1000 permanent staff, about 600 are researchers, plus more than 500 postdoctoral, graduate students, fellows and collaborators are involved in INAF research activities.

INAF is articulated into 17 research structures distributed all over the country, plus a number of observing facilities and infrastructures in Italy and abroad: the National Telescope Galileo (TNG), located in La Palma, Canary Islands, the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, the Sardinia RadioTelescope (SRT). Moreover, INAF is directly involved in major astrophysical scientific and technological research programmes, also in collaboration with the most important European (ESO, ESA, etc.) and international (NASA, etc.) research bodies, agencies, or universities. INAF participates in many space astrophysical programmes (National, European, and International), which include: eliophysics; Solar System exploration and study; stars, stellar population, interstellar matter and the Galaxy; galaxies; relativistic astrophysics; astroparticles; cosmology.