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Options for the Future Governance of European Access to Space
The project’s aim is to analyze the current mechanisms of governance in the European launcher sector and to define alternative options and models ensuring to Europe a competitive, reliable and secure...Start/End: 2013 -
Cyber+Space Series
IAI cooperates with Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) on the initiative Cyber+Space Series, launched in the UK with the active support of Finmeccanica. It follows up the...Start/End: 2013 -
G-NEXT- GMES pre-operational security services for supporting external actions
G-NEXT identified and offered a set of services in support to the EU external action that could be suitably integrated in the user working environment in an effective and reliable way. The...Start/End: 2013 -
G-SEXTANT- Service provision of geospatial intelligence in EU external actions support
The goal of G-SEXTANT was to consolidate a portfolio of Earth Observation products and services that support the geospatial information (geoinformation) needs of the EU external action. Focusing on...Start/End: 2013 -
La Primavera Araba: Sfide e Opportunità Sociali e Economiche
This project, carried out with the support of the Italian Consiglio Nazionale dell’Economia e del Lavoro (CNEL), focuses its attention on three case studies: Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia. The objective...Start/End: 2011 -
Space and Security: the use of space in the context of CSDP
The study, prepared for the European Parliament, includes a twofold analysis. First, an analysis of CSDP missions and their operational context to be matched with the main space-based applications,...Start/End: 2011 -
Study on Suitable Governance and Data Policy models for a European Space Situational Awareness (SSA) System
The study was commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA) from a consortium led by FRS (Fondation pour la Récherche Stratégique, Paris). The study aimed to analyse a future European Space...Start/End: 2008 -
Foreign investment in the emerging European security and defence market
The aim of the study was to analyze the risks related to the purchase by foreign investors of industries operating in the security and defence sector. The study looked into supply and product...Start/End: 2008 -
From Mesco to EuroMeSCo
In 1994 the Institute contributed to set up the Mediterranean Study Commission (MeSCo), a network of Mediterranean people and institutions dealing with international and security affairs. After the...Start/End: 1994 -
How to Better Involve Citizens in the European Integration Process: Evaluations and Proposals in View of the Upcoming European Parliament Elections
The project aimed to develop analyses and proposals to strengthen European democracy and renew the approach of citizens to EU institutions in view of the June 2009 European Parliament elections. The...Start/End: 2009 -
10 years of protests in the Middle East and North Africa. Dynamics of mobilization in a complex (geo)political environment
A decade after the outbreak of protests in the Arab world, the processes of contestation and grassroots mobilisation continue to impact the Middle East. With the aim of understanding continuity and...Start/End: 2020 -
The Dynamics of Change in the Arab World
In the second half of 2005, IAI in collaboration with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA-UI) launched a multi-annual research project aimed at developing and updating the...Start/End: 2005 -
Security and Defence Programme
Relations with the administrations involved in security and defence policy Consulting services, also by means of documents and notes written for this specific purpose, in order to upgrade the...Start/End: 1996 -
European elections 2024
The elections for the European Parliament are a milestone for the future of the European Union. It is a moment of democratic legitimacy for the EU as European citizens are called upon to vote...Start/End: 2024 -
Strategic competition in Space and space economy: challenges and opportunities for Italy
In the confrontation between powers, space has played an essential role in the past and strategic competition continues to characterize the space environment, perceived by world powers as the "higher...Start/End: 2022 -
Short Range Air Defence and threats to global security
Air defence has to respond and adapt to the evolution of air threats that are becoming increasingly diverse, not only in terms of of attack systems performance, but also of platform types. Piloted...Start/End: 2022 -
Dialoghi di cittadinanza sul futuro dell’Europa
Within the Conference on the Future of Europe, launched in 2020 by the European Parliament and the Commission, the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) will set up three Citizens’ Dialogues to engage...Start/End: 2020 -
Wider Europe, deeper integration? “Constructing Europe” Network – EU-CONSENT
EU-Consent was a network of excellence for joint research and teaching that analysed the construction of a new Europe over the period between 2005 and 2008. It addressed questions of the mutual...Start/End: 2005 -
Early Warning and Conflict Prevention in the Euro-Med Area
In 2000 the International Affairs Institute (IAI) launched a project aimed at creating a first nucleus of capabilities in conflict prevention in the Euro-Mediterranean framework, with a view to...Start/End: 2000 -
RADAR: Raising Awareness on Disinformation, Achieving Resilience
RADAR addresses the topics of countering disinformation, enabling democratic participation and engaging youth in policy-making. It comprises 12 Work Packages (WP), whose main objective is to...Start/End: 2022