Via Pietro Castellino 111
80134 Naples
Italy
- Research
ISMED conducts research focused on the Mediterranean region. The main research fields are: • analysis of the socio-economic development; • environmental sustainability and economic growth; • long-term changes in the management and use of natural resources; • the Euro-Mediterranean policy and the creation of an area of shared prosperity between the EU and the Mediterranean partner countries; • economic sectors and technological transfer; • trade, finance and credit; • demographic growth and migration flows; • the role of public and private institutions in the development process; • urban studies, territorial imbalance and regional policy; • regional integration and globalisation. • the historical evolution of the Mediterranean region; • the interaction among cultures and people.
the main projects activities of ISMED are: 1.sustainability, natural resources management and environmental issues; 2. environment and security in the Mediterranean; 3. growth and convergence in the Mediterranean 4. development gap in the Mediterranean region: Italy and Mezzogiorno in modern and contemporary age 3. Institutions, economic policies and development in the Mediterranean region 4. the natural resources and the historical sources 5. mediterranean migrations: history and economics
Our main contribution could be the identification of priorities and guidelines for national and european policymakers, research papers, publications in international reviews, organisation of and partecipation to international conferences, involvment in projects, training activities.
to increase our partecipation in international networks and develop interdisciplinary research activities with the involvment of foreign institutes