The National Institute of Physics (NIP) is a unit of cooperation and scientific coordination in various fields of physics, with the mission of promoting knowledge and scientific truth, protecting public health, cultural heritage, environmental and material, promoting technology and innovation, improving university study programs, physics development as a fundamental science, in cooperation with Institutes, Academies and other genuine scientific institutions. NIP operates mainly through the website www.ikf-akad.al, Academy of Sciences of Albania.
NIP aims to promote the most contemporary knowledge in the field of physics throughout the Albanian speaking lands, facilitate the communication and cooperation between Albanian physicists around the world, increase access and connectivity between Albanian and foreign physicists, support Albanian excellence in research and teaching, with young talents on focus. NIP aims to create an active and authoritative voice in the national physics environment and to serve as the center of the Albanian community of physics graduates. The focus of NIP activities is also undergraduate physics, through cooperation and promotion of critical thinking among main actors, in favor of improving physics teaching; through activities such as certified teachers’ trainings; through the inclusion of physics teachers and talented students in active groups for the popularization of science.