The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) finances the establishment in Luiss of a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE), the EU Inclusive Open Strategic Autonomy Centre (EU-IOSAC). EU-IOSAC is a hub for cutting-edge research, teaching and policy analysis to manage the policy tradeoff that the EU is currently facing.
The initiative is part of the European Union’s strategy to maintain and increase its competitiveness in a fast-changing global context, while ensuring inclusive outcomes of trade within Europe and the Mediterranean area. Against this backdrop, Italy, due to its geographical position and political tradition, can play an important role.
EU-IOSAC can become a strategically positioned hub in the European context to:
- be the central node of transnational links with academic institutions in core and Mediterranean European countries;
- gather top notch expertise to design inclusive EU trade and industrial policies;
- make such expertise multidisciplinary, and focused on European issues;
- ensure public outreach to relevant stakeholders and civil society.
These objectives will be pursued by EU-IOSAC, under the scientific direction of Professor Valentina Meliciani, full professor of Applied Economics at DIM, through a strategic and synergistic number of activities carried out in collaboration with the academic community, policy and civil society actors, in line with the intent of the Jean Monnet Call.