This event focuses intensely on the evolution of balances in Europe and on the economic and political challenges that lie ahead. The AED project, first launched in 1994, comprises a cycle of meetings in various Italian and European cities with the aim of developing proposals for Europe’s political future. The institute aims to enlarge and strengthen the economic union, in search of a common understanding of such strategic terms as federalism, the single currency, market flexibility and exchange rate stability. In parallel with these themes, these meetings also focus on social aspects, on opportunities offered by technological innovation, and on the ways and means of tackling structural unemployment and reforming the Welfare State. The AED has invariably hosted representatives of the European institutions and of the individual member governments, together with experts in various fields, including businesspeople, who have engaged in lively and extremely constructive debates. Exponents of the world of politics, the economy and academia have also participated, from the United States, the Middle East and other geographic areas of strategic importance for the European debate.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- The e-book series Aspen Italia Views – published with the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (founded by Giovanni Treccani) – presents analyses and studies conducted by preeminent authors on the major challenges facing contemporary societies. The series provides a modern and lively intellectual forum on topics ranging from culture and technology to politics and national and international security. The publications are characterized by a business community emphasis, with an approach that is scientific and that focuses on the dynamics and scenarios of strategic interest to entrepreneurial activity. The series can be downloaded from the internet and read on desktop computers, laptops, or tablets with any e-book reader app. The following e-books are available in the Aspen Italia Views series:
-
-
-
- Aspen Institute Italia’s work takes place behind closed doors and any media representatives attending do so in a strictly personal capacity. For certain specific conferences the Institute organizes meetings with the press to acquaint the national and international media with the analyses and proposals that have emerged in the course of the event. On other occasions the Institute grants exclusive coverage to national TV networks and press sources. The magazine’s main themes are also debated and analyzed in the course of meetings held by invitation and open to the media, known as the “Aspenia Talks”.
-
- Aspen Institute Italia è una comunità composta in primo luogo da Soci Sostenitori, Soci Ordinari, Amici di Aspen, Aspen Junior Fellows, Aspen University Fellows e Aspen Junior Fellows Alumni, ma aperta anche a quanti in Italia e dall’estero vogliano offrire un contributo di idee e proposte coerenti con l’attività dell’Istituto. Organi di Aspen Institute Italia sono il Comitato Esecutivo, il Consiglio Generale, il Presidente e i vice Presidenti, il Segretario Generale e il Collegio Sindacale. Il Consiglio Generale è composto in maniera paritetica dai Soci Sostenitori e dai rappresentanti dei Soci Ordinari, e si riunisce in funzione deliberante almeno una volta l’anno. Tra le sue funzioni quella di eleggere il Presidente e i Vice Presidenti nonché il Comitato Esecutivo. Il Comitato Esecutivo, composto in maniera paritetica dai rappresentanti dei Soci Sostenitori e dei Soci Ordinari, ha tra le sue prerogative quella di sottoporre al Consiglio Generale l’approvazione del bilancio consuntivo e del programma annuale di attività – sovrintendendo poi alla sua realizzazione.