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 contribute in achieving the objectives of sustainable development, governance and security in Sub-Saharan Africa, starting from the case studies of Ethiopia, Mozambique, Nigeria

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 phase, papers were prepared by Italian and foreign authors and a meeting of experts and exponents from the military, industrial and scientific communities was held in Rome in March 2002 and published as a IAI Quaderno.

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 Space and Security in Europe, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).

A project defining the objectives and typologies of European security. in collaboration with the Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS), Paris, Led by the ASD (Aeronautic Space and Defence, the association bringing together European aerospace and defence industries), the IAI’s contribution involved identifying security scenarios and contacting various Italian and European institutional actors in the field of security in an attempt to work out requirements in terms of capacity and technological proposals.

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 space resources – telecommunications, land observation, navigation – an adequate response to the EU members’ demand for security. The aims of this project were: - building a task force of stakeholders and users to determine the main needs to be met with space services and infrastructure; - demonstrating the added value of certain services by means of demonstrations in the field;