The Italian Academy of the Merchant Marine Foundation (FAIMM) has renewed the agreement with the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) in La Spezia under which the students of the Academy, enrolled in the free ITS courses of the foundation, regularly participate in internship embarkations on the Alliance ship, a multi-purpose research unit that carries out both experimentation activities by CMRE, and hydro-oceanographic in favor of the Hydrographic Institute of the Navy.

Two years after the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the two institutes signed by the Director General of FAIMM, Paola Vidotto, and by the director of the CMRE, Catherine Warner, was recently renovated by the new director of CMRE, Eric Pouliquen, to ensure the continuation of the students' internships deck and engine officers as well as course students ITS Ship Manager / Superintendent on board the CMRE ships and at its Marine Operations Office.