The CRM opens an annual call for CRM Intensive Research Programmes (IRP) approximately two years in advance. The CRM started organising IRPs in 2003 and has held two to three per year since then. Each programme consists of a number of resident researchers, from junior to senior, and at least two scientific events (workshops, advanced courses, and conferences). Each research programme also runs an informal weekly seminar that serves as a get-together meeting for the research visitors and local mathematicians.
IRP participants benefit from the CRM well established experience staff and the comfortable premises, with the commodities of a campus environment and the nearby entertainment of the lively city of Barcelona.
This programme was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.