AstroFIt is a co-funded project by the  Marie Curie Actions of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7) and INAF, the 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 and advanced technology and instruments.

 AstroFIt  will implement a career development plan where training is provided also for non-scientific and complementary skills.

The National Institute for Astrophysics (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica – INAF) is the public research organization that promotes, performs and co-ordinates astrophysics and astronomy research in Italy and cooperates with universities and other national and international organizations. With approximately 1000 permanent staff, about 600 are researchers. Today, more than 300 postdoctoral, graduate students, fellows and consultants are involved in INAF research activities.

Currently, INAF has 19 research centres distributed all over the country and some observing facilities abroad: the National Telescope Galileo (TNG), located in La Palma, Canary Islands and a 25% share of the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. Moreover, INAF is directly involved in major astronomical ground-based telescope projects over the entire electromagnetic spectrum, as well as in the construction of state-of-the-art focal plane instrumentation. INAF participates in many space astrophysical programmes (both national and international) ranging from the study of the physics of the Sun and the solar system to astrophysics and cosmology.

INAF is part of several International collaborations including radio, optical and high energy astrophysics and is involved in many FP7 projects.