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Europe 2004: Enlargement and Institutional reform of the European Union
Launched in 2001, this multi-year program examined issues pertaining to institutional reform of the European Union in the light of enlargement to central and southern Europe and developments in the...Start/End: 2001 -
Defence Matters 2016
The project aims at stimulating the Italian public debate over defence issues, in particular on the role of NATO in the current international context and Italy’s defence policy. Based on the...Start/End: 2016 -
Defence Matters 2015
The project aims to stimulate the national public debate on a double focus: the Nato role in the current security environment, and the implication of the Italian White Book on International Security...Start/End: 2015 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
EU crisis management: institutions and capabilities in the making
The research aims at examining the latest developments in the area of ESDP/CSDP and to outlininge future scenarios for crisis management carried out by the European Union. Particular emphasis...Start/End: 2010 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
ReArm Europe e il Libro bianco sulla difesa europea
IAI has been closely monitoring developments in the defence sector in Europe throughout 2025, in light of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the changes introduced by the Trump administration...Start/End: 2025 -
Making a Future Together: EU and the Western Balkans from the Youth Perspective
The project was led by the European Policy Centre (CEP)in partnership with the members of the Think for Europe Network, the Istituto Affari Internazionali, the Bronsilav Geremek Foundation...Start/End: 2020 -
Defence and Security Matters 2017
The project “Defence and Security Matters 2017: Italy”, funded by the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, contributes to the effort to communicate and discuss NATO purpose and role, particularly in...Start/End: 2017 -
Academic conferences in cooperation with NATO Allied Command Transformation and Bologna University
This series of international academic conferences - sponsored by NATO's Allied Command Transformation (ACT) and organised by IAI, in partnership with Bologna University - does contribute to a...Start/End: 2011 -
Il ruolo dell'elicottero nel nuovo scenario militare: le prospettive italiane
This research project started with an examination of recent military experiences and the strategic debate and moved toward consideration of the effective potentials of the helicopter in the new...Start/End: 1999 -
How to Enhance European citizens’ participation in the European Integration
This is a follow-up of the research project on European democracy, launched by the IAI, in co-operation with Notre Europe (Paris) and the Centro Studi sul Federalismo (Turin) in early 2009, before...Start/End: 2009
