  The summer training program for Italian undergraduate and graduate students
at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory of Fermilab (Batavia, Illinois,
USA) started in 1984 as a 2 month training program for Italian undergraduate
students in physics of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
collaborating in the Collider Detector experiment (CDF) at the Fermilab
Tevatron proton - antiproton collider. While in 1984 the program involved only
4 physics students from the University of Pisa, in the following years it
rapidly grew in scope and size under the management of the Cultural Association
of Italians at Fermilab (CAIF). With an average number of 30 trainees/year
reached in the last few years, the total number of Italian students hosted at
Fermilab since 1984 has exceeded 500 units. Since 2015 the program has been
included in the portfolio of the summer courses of the University of Pisa,
which acknowledges 6 ECTS to the interns.
