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EU-CIVCAP - Preventing and responding to conflict: developing EU CIVilian CAPabilities for a sustainable peace
Preventing the outbreak of conflicts and promoting a sustainable peace remains a key challenge for policy-makers and analysts. The EU and Member States should acquire adequate capabilities in order...Start/End: 2015 -
Putting the EUGS into action: developing EU/EDA added value in support of security and defence
The project “Putting the EUGS into action: developing EU/EDA added value in support of security and defence”, coordinated by IAI, sought to concretize the EUGS provisions of direct relevance to EDA...Start/End: 2016 -
Italy’s foreign policy community
The project was aimed at fostering regular dialogue between Italian diplomats and international affairs experts, departing from the premise that plurality of ideas and perspectives enriches the...Start/End: 2022 -
European Military Integrated Space Situational Awareness and Recognition Capability - EMISSARY
The IAI is part of a European consortium that brings together leading companies in the space sector for the EMISSARY project (December 2024-Marzo 2029). EMISSARY will enhance the acquisition of space...Start/End: 2024 -
The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP)
The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), launched in 2022 by Italy, the United Kingdom and Japan for the development of a system of systems centreed on a sixth-generation fighter aircraft, is an...Start/End: 2024 -
EU-US Security Strategies
In this project, lasting 14 months, IAI acts as project leader. The study intends to provide a comparative analysis of the EU-US relationship with regard, in particular, to the definition of the...Start/End: 2010 -
Responsive European Architecture for Space - REACTS
The initiative aims to provide European member states with a study and design of a new collaborative defence capability: an interoperable, resilient and scalable network of responsive space systems (...Start/End: 2024 -
Academic seminars on European and Transatlantic Security
Since 2022, IAI has held every year an academic seminar on Europe’s security, NATO and European defence, in light of the Russia-Ukraine war and considering an international security environment...Start/End: 2022 -
GovSatCom feasibility study
Starting 1 July 2015, the Instituto Affari Internazionali will be involved in the GovSatCom feasibility study project. The project, which is financed by the European Defence Agency (EDA), aims at...Start/End: 2015 -
European strategic autonomy and the challenge of new green and digital technologies
The project, carried out from September 2025 to August 2026 with the support of the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione Centro Studi sul Federalismo, examines the main challenges facing...Start/End: 2025 -
Space, Sovereignty and European Security. Building European capabilities in an advanced institutional framework
This study, realized for the European Parliament, aims at identifying a number of strategies to strengthen the European role in the space field. In this context, the first section is devoted to...Start/End: 2013 -
Space and Security in Europe
Following a 2002 research project on the relations between the European Security and Defence Policy and the space sector (see IAI Quaderni, n.15), the IAI conducted an international study on...Start/End: 2003 -
La dimensione spaziale della Politica Europea di Sicurezza e Difesa
This research project examined the prospects for adopting space technology in implementing the European security and defence policy in the framework of transatlantic cooperation. During the first...Start/End: 2001 -
Turkey and European Security
This study was carried out in 2005-2006 in collaboration with the Tesev Foundation (Turkish Economic ans Social Studies Foundation) of Istanbul. It focuses on the political and military implications...Start/End: 2005 -
Multiple Framework Contracts (with Reopening of Competition) for the Provision of Research, Evaluation and Analysis Related Services
The consortium led by the IAI was selected, together with few others consortia, for a four-year framework contract aimed at providing EDA timely analyses on European Defence Technological Industrial...Start/End: 2015 -
EU crisis management missions and the role of Italy
The objective of this research project is to assess the evolution of EU crisis management missions and the participation of Italy. In particular, it aims to evaluate the effectiveness of EU missions...Start/End: 2009 -
ICPA (ISR Capability Package Assessment study)
Through the definition and analysis of specific operational scenarios derived from Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions, the project aims at identifying and assess current gaps in...Start/End: 2011 -
ASTRO+ Project
This 15-month project, coordinated by Eads Astrium in the framework of the “Preparatory Action in the field of Security Research” - Pasr 2004, shown the benefits that would derive from the use of...Start/End: 2005 -
Study on National Industrial Strategies and Policies in EDA participating Member States relevant for the European Defence Industrial Base
This seven-month project for EDA resulted in a thorough comparative analysis of the defence industrial policy across 26 EU States, with a particular focus on the Czech Republic, France, Germany,...Start/End: 2021 -
Key Trends Affecting the European Defence Technological Industrial Base
This project aimed to provide fresh analysis on the state of the EDTIB and its possible evolution in light of recent regional and global developments. The research provided a comprehensive...Start/End: 2017
