Events

This HDR event, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme, Generali Group, and the Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University, will feature a presentation of the key findings of the 2025 HDR, followed by two conversations that bring the reports messages into concrete focus: the implications of AI for gender divides and how to mitigate them. Together, these discussions will explore how choices made today can ensure that AI becomes a force for expanding human freedoms, rather than constraining them.

An event to discuss how the European Union is responding to rapidly evolving dynamics in rare earths supply chains, global trade tensions, and strategic interdependence with China and the United States. 

Alla luce degli sviluppi più recenti, l’evento propone un confronto aperto e plurale sul Venezuela di oggi.

Una conversazione con Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, intervistato da Stefano Feltri. 

Una conversazione con Nathalie Tocci, intervistata da Stefano Feltri.

The discussion will focus on cornerstones of migration policies, from Visa and language requirements to recognition of qualifications for skilled workers, on labor market and social integration of asylum seekers, and on the different factors leading to workers’ choice to stay permanently or only temporarily in the host country.

Una conversazione con Guido Tabellini, intervistato da Martina Castigliani.

The US’s protectionist shift, characterized by “reciprocal tariffs” and “Buy American” policies, threatens the EU’s export-based economy. To preserve prosperity and autonomy, the EU must diversify trade beyond traditional partners. This seminar examines whether new markets can help offset US barriers, strengthen supply chains, and support growth amid global tensions.

This seminar discusses research on populism showing that populist parties gain support by addressing gaps in political representation — specifically, aligning with voters’ genuine policy preferences — rather than merely channeling protest or anti-elite sentiment.

From its origins in ancient Mesopotamia through the advent of coinage in ancient Greece and Rome and the invention of paper currency in medieval China, the progress of finance and money has been driven by technological developments. The great technological change of our age in relation to money centers on the creation of digital money and digital payment systems.