Volta Congress

The Volta Congress (Italian: Convegno Volta) was the name given to each of the international conferences on various topics held in Rome, Italy by the Royal Academy of Italy and funded by the Alessandro Volta Foundation. They were established in 1930 by initiative of the Società Generale Italiana Edison di Elettricità. The fifth congress was influential in the development of aerodynamics.

These conferences took place after the Como Conference, also known as the Volta Conference, held at Lake Como in 1927 during the 100th anniversary of Alessandro Volta's death, which led to the public introduction of the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics by Niels Bohr. The Como Conference and the interwar period Volta Congresses were funded and attended by Benito Mussolini.