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      • Meeting in digital format
        • 19 May 2020
         
         

        Financing the recovery. Europe, Germany, Italy

          The main thread of the meeting could be summarized in this initial question: How can political relations between two culturally similar countries like Italy and Germany be so fragile and apparently unstable despite the solid trade relationship they enjoy? The parameters of the search for an answer were broad and deep, proof of the historic breadth of an Italo-German relationship dating back to the Renaissance and marked today by the shared values and principles of the European Union.

        • Meeting in digital format
          • 18 May 2020
           
           

          Global health and climate change: why the Green Deal remains crucial

            With lockdowns in place practically all over the world, the peak of the pandemic has morphed into a sort of vast air pollution control experiment, especially in major urban areas, whose very tangible public health benefits will certainly be short-lived and are still difficult to quantify but, in any case, point to an abnormal and clearly unsustainable “remedy”. Nevertheless, there is a considerable overlap between post-pandemic measures and environmental protection efforts.

          • Meeting in digital format
            • 14 May 2020
             
             

            Leaving the crisis behind: public opinion and communications industry

              For Italy, as for many other countries of the world, Covid-19 has been nothing less than a social “stroke” that has forced the economy and society into a slow recovery that is going to take at least two years, if not four, as the less optimistic are predicting. According to DOXA, 65% of Italians consider the health emergency still the prevailing concern, 35% are more fearful of the pandemic’s economic consequences, 66% are convinced they will not be able to maintain their standard of living or protect their savings, while only 8% have no personal economic worries.

            • Meeting in digital format
              • 4 May 2020
               
               

              A new start for post-pandemic tourism

                The pandemic crisis now under way is only the latest chronologically since 9/11, the Arab Spring, the 2008 financial downturn and Brexit; not to mention climate change, which acts as a sort of umbrella for all recent emergencies.

              • Meeting in digital format
                • 28 April 2020
                 
                 

                Proposals for the future from Aspen Institute Italia Junior Fellows

                  The economic, social and geopolitical impact of Covid-19 presents challenges that, as they are confronted, will have significant, long-term consequences for the country’s future. In Italy, one of the nations most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, preexisting economic structural weaknesses make an effective response to the emergency not only strategic but especially difficult.

                • Meeting in digital format
                  • 27 April 2020
                   
                   

                  Europe’s response to Covid-19: the way ahead

                    An evaluation of European economic prospects could being with the observation that we are in the throes of an exogenous shock, symmetrical in origin yet asymmetrical in its effects (the economic conditions at the outs

                  • Meeting in digital format
                    • 20 April 2020
                     
                     

                    More and better jobs in the great global transformation

                      The future of work was the main theme of the digital panel discussion set up with the collaboration of the national council of the association of job consultants, where a paper entitled “More and better jobs in the great global transformation” was presented.

                      The discussion focused on the difficulties reviving productive activities such as services in the presence of a pandemic. Much will depend on the effectiveness of the measures adopted to ensure the survival of businesses and labor relations during the lockdown and as the recovery begins.

                    • Meeting in digital format
                      • 15 April 2020
                       
                       

                      Lezioni di una pandemia: un’alleanza tra ricerca e industria per la salute globale

                        A virus that has morphed into a pandemic is bringing the world economy to its knees. Covid-19 is a phenomenon of epic proportions spreading at unprecedented speed; it is highly adept at evolving and has a powerful capacity for penetration, especially among the most vulnerable segments of the population.

                      • Online Event
                        • 8 April 2020
                         
                         

                        Gli Stati Uniti alla prova di COVID-19

                          The pandemic has caught the United States at a delicate pre-electoral moment. The incumbent president is counting heavily on solid and sustained economic growth, while the Democratic Party is offering an alternative at least partly founded on a larger government role in income distribution and in providing essential services – including healthcare.

                        • Milan
                          • 18 February 2020
                           
                           

                          A Country for young people

                            The fourth Aspen University Fellows roundtable was devoted to the theme of Italy’s compatibility with the newer generations and the role of those generations in a society whose complexity often generates uncertainty and pessimism.

                          • Rome
                            • 31 January 2020
                             
                             

                            The future of the European economy: the new Commission’s choices

                              The European Union is confronting a series of long-term structural challenges that, nevertheless, require the immediate implementation of high impact, broad-spectrum policies. An initial issue is climate change, naturally a planet-wide concern for which Europe has already set goals, such as carbon neutrality within 2050 (which will obviously have direct effects on the energy sector).

                            • Milan
                              • 27 January 2020
                               
                               

                              AI: a new alliance between technology, business and society

                                The Artificial Intelligence debate, which started back in the 1950s, has become particularly topical today. The benefits of AI are recognized as undeniable but, at the same time, there is growing fear and resistance owing to the evolution of the man/machine – or subject/tool – relationship.

                              • Milan
                                • 22 January 2020
                                 
                                 

                                Science and technology: new resources, new challenges

                                  The resources now available to science and technology have become immeasurable. The human brain has been creating increasingly smaller and powerful technologies that, in many cases, surpass human strength and capacities. Machines are digitalizing and perfecting nearly every sector, some of which are undergoing a revolution of unprecedented proportions.  

                                • Washington,DC
                                  • 8 July 2019
                                   
                                   

                                  Italy, the US and Europe: facing inevitable change in a smart way

                                    In a global framework filled with uncertainty and marked by several true systemic changes, the still structurally sound transatlantic relationship is undeniably feeling the effect of rising tensions. Both the United States and Europe are subject to strong socio-political forces that are challenging faith in institutions and even the Western model itself – even though clear alternatives have thus far been lacking, and traditional European parties managed to hold out against the anti-establishment and euro-skeptic movements in the recent parliamentary elections.

                                  • Rome
                                    • 9 June 2019
                                     
                                     

                                    Homo Sapiens Digitalis or Dataman? Humans in the digital age

                                      The digital transformation is an unstoppable force that is revolutionizing contemporary society. However, the polarization resulting from the ongoing social and economic changes is highlighting the need for this transition to be guided with a view to preserving social equity and stability in an increasingly complex scenario.

                                    • Venice
                                      • 8 March 2019
                                       
                                       

                                      Assessing risk: business in global disorder

                                        Prospects for the global system, in economic/financial as much as political/strategic terms, are suffering the lack of a clear-cut ordering principle. There is no doubt that the international order is changing: Fragmentation and insufficient governance are a serious risk, with the rise of problems that cannot be confronted at national, and possibly not even regional level, ranging from financial rules to big data and privacy, and from climate change to migration.