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The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a no-profit, no-partisan research
institution established to carry out research in the field of sustainable
development.
Recognised by the President of the Italian Republic in July 1989,
it has since become a leading international research centre.
One of its principal aims is to promote interaction between academic,
industrial and public policy spheres in order to comprehensively address
concerns about economic development and environmental degradation.
The FEEM's activities are guided by four fundamental criteria:
i) to analyse relevant and innovative research areas;
ii) to focus on "real" world
issues;
iii) to integrate multi-disciplinary approaches;
iv) to create and
foster international research networks.
FEEM also supplies technical support and advice to the public and
private decision-making process in the economic and environmental field,
at the national as well as international level (The Italian Ministry of
Finance and Economics, the Italian Ministry of the Environment, expert groups
under the umbrellas of the EU, the OECD, the United Nations, the UN Commission
of Sustainable Development, the IPCC, the Abdus Salam International Centre
for Theoretical Physics, etc.).
FEEM also co-operates with Institutions such as the World Bank,
the NBER, Resources for the Future, the CEPR, the European Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists, the Beijer Institute of Ecological
Economics, and several European and US Universities.
Further information is available at http://www.feem.it
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini is a non-profit cultural institution
based in Venice, Italy. It was constituted by Count Vittorio Cini,
in memory of
his son Giorgio, with the aim of restoring the Island of San Giorgio
Maggiore (devastated after 100 years of military occupation) and
of creating an international
cultural centre that would re-integrate the Island into the life
of Venice.
“The Giorgio Cini Foundation's mission is to promote the redevelopment
of the monumental complex on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
and encourage the creation and development of educational, social, cultural and
artistic
institutions in its surrounding territory.” The creation of the Foundation
was one of the most considerable private initiatives of the 20th
century. The importance of this undertaking was borne out by the
initial investment
committed to rehabilitate the Island and by the many events the
Foundation has promoted or hosted since. It is further substanstiated
by the cultural
patrimony conserved on the Island and, since 1984, at the Gallery
of Palazzo Cini at San Vio.
Alongside the Foundation's commitment to its own research and the
conferences and seminars growing out of this work, the Island welcomes
events sponsored by distinguished cultural and scientific organisations.
It has
even been the site of major international summits (inprimis the
G7 in 1980 and 1987).
The role of the Giorgio Cini Foundation is attested by the many
highly esteemed intellectuals, artists, politicians and economists
who have been involved in its programme, and by the recollections of scholars
and
guests who have spent time on the Island.
Further information is
available at http://www.cini.it/