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Abstract: We describe a program for computing the abundances of light elements produced during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis which is publicly available at http://parthenope.na.infn.it/. Starting from nuclear statistical equilibrium conditions the program solves the set of coupled ordinary differential equations, follows the departure from chemical equilibrium of nuclear species, and determines their asymptotic abundances as function of several input cosmological parameters as the baryon density, the number of effective neutrino, the value of cosmological constant and the neutrino chemical potential. The program requires commercial NAG library routines. Program summary: Program title: PArthENoPE Catalogue identifier: AEAV_v1_0 Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEAV_v1_0.html Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen''s University, Belfast, N. Ireland Licensing provisions: Standard CPC licence, http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/licence/licence.html No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 10 033 No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 46 002 Distribution format: tar.gz Programming language: Fortran 77 Computer: PC-compatible running Fortran on Unix, MS Windows or Linux Operating system: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Linux Classification: 1.2, 1.9, 17.8 External routines: NAG Libraries Nature of problem: Computation of yields of light elements synthesized in the primordial universe. Solution method: BDF method for the integration of the ODEs, implemented in a NAG routine. Running time: 90 sec with default parameters on a Dual Xeon Processor 2.4 GHz with 2 GB RAM. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]