Administrative Secretariat
It is organised in the following services:

Accounting service
- It prepares the forecast documents (Management Plan), Management Balance Sheet, variations for increased revenue of expenditure. Approval of compensatory transfers on account of residues. Reassessment with measures of residual assets and liabilities for approval;
- is responsible for entering the financial data of the projects on the CNR's INTRANET platform in the "External Financing - GEPRO and PDGP" applications for the purpose of recording and entering the projects on the SIGLA accounting platform and their subsequent financial management;
- takes care of the preparation of the negotiation acts;
- takes care of financial accounting, asset accounting (inventory) and VAT registers, and prepares the relevant administrative documents;
- manages the bursar's fund;
- processes statements of account on financial assets.

Procurement management service
- It manages the purchase of goods, provision of services and works in accordance with the regulations in force, taking care to update the register of activated contracts and preparing the relevant administrative acts;
- prepares notices, specifications, tender specifications in support of the RUP.

Transparency Service
- It takes care of the publication and dissemination of documents to comply with the rules on the transparency of financial flows.
2.4 Data Protection Service
- It takes care of the management and protection of personal data according to current privacy regulations.

Project management service
- It provides support for participation in national and regional projects, including through communication activities;
- provides support in the preparation of project proposals, the related budget and the project business plan;
- prepares the 'delegation request' of the project/contract to the relevant CNR Department of the Institute;
- takes care of the management of the approved projects by carrying out monitoring, preparation, reporting of expenses, reporting of personnel involved in the project and audits, in cooperation with the other services of the Administrative Secretariat for the reporting of expenses and with the Project Managers for matters within their competence;
- takes care of updating the project archive.