Italy's national elections failed to produce a winner with enough support to form a parliamentary majority, leaving few options for any new government. The right-wing coalition won the most combined votes, the anti-establishment Five Star Movement was the first largest single party.

IAI hosted Italy's launch of the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (J.E.D.I), a Franco-German project bringing together companies and institutions with the aim of financing disruptive innovations in Europe. The project was presented by J.E.D.I's spokesperson, André Loesekrug Pietri.

In his interview with Energy Union Watch, the IAI's quarterly bulletin on energy and climate, the Italian Minister of the Environment, Gian Luca Galletti, said that "in these years, it is in the field of the environment that we are seeing the best of Europe, strong and proactive".