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Research - Africa

The project (September 2025-June 2026) aims to analyse Italy’s role in the Lobito Corridor. The research will provide the opportunity to focus on several key topics: critical raw materials and…
This project aims to assess and strengthen cooperation between Europe and Africa in the field of digital governance, within a global context marked by multiple crises that have exposed the fragility…
The project, led by the Centre for African Studies in Turin, has focused on water management in the Lake Chad  and its regional and international implications. Water diplomacy holds a…
This multimedia project aimed to describe the role of sustainable agriculture in the African development. It focused on Ghana, striving to analyse the dynamics that are affecting agricultural…
African Futures 2030 (AF2030) was a project lead by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) reflecting on the major trends that will orient the future of Sub-Saharan Africa looking…
The research firstly analysed the factors underpinning good governance in the Sahel, and secondly considered how the quality of governance is influenced by and can affect the management of…
The project offered an in-depth analysis of the current status, the future prospects and the main questions related to access to energy for household and industry in the African continent, such as…
The project aimed to reconceptualise the existing links between migration, development and security in the Sahel, a region where this nexus is particularly pronounced. The research also sought to…
The African Futures project, coordinated by the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), explores possible trends and scenarios over a 10-15 year period in Africa: what is likely to…
The aim of this project - launched by a kick-off meeting in Brussels on 3 July 2014 and a conference in Turin on 1-2 December 2014 - is to evaluate how public and private sector can collaborate and…
This project analyses major political, economic and social trends in the wider Atlantic basin with the view to identify potential evolutionary patterns. The research unfolds on various policy domains…
The objective of this project was to assess which policies and initiatives the European Union and the African Union should take to involve African sub-regional organizations and civil society in the…
The project was aimed at assessing the European Union's possible contribution to peace and security in Africa, focusing on the development of the African Union's security policies, conflict…
In 2009 the Institute started up a research program on the security policies of the African Union and European Union's role in contributing to the growth of African capabilities in crisis prevention…