IEIIT is a landmark institution of CNR, for advanced scientific and technological research in Information Engineering, covering fields as electronics, electromagnetism, telecommunications, system control and artificial intelligence, computer science, and bioengineering.

IEIIT mission is to promote and support diffusion and application of the ICT Engineering in the society, standing at the forefront of the research to produce innovation, technology transfer and education. Excellence in basic research and a sharp vision of its role in its task of inventing the future, are the founding characteristics of IEIIT, together with a clear propensity for interdisciplinary research, indispensable for facing today's challenges, and the future that the ubiquity of ICT in today's world requires.