The EU and Global Justice
European Security
European Foreign Policy
Identity and Foreign Policy
The External image of the EU
Research coordination
- Team Leader (Director of the University of Bologna Unit) in the Research Project GLOBUS - Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice (H2020 2016-2020) http://www.globus.uio.no/research/ . Coordinator of the Workpackage Migration; Co-coordinator of the Workpackage Contesting Justice.
- Team Leader (with James Sperling and Mark Webber) in the project: Governing the European Security Space: The EU as an Agent of Collective Securitization. Project developed in the context of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence "The European Union in World Politics: What Power? What Leadership? A Multidisciplinary Approach" (Punto Europa Forlì; Research Grant EU Commission 2014-2017 - http://www.puntoeuropa.eu/InformazioniUE/Progetti.aspx). Output: Special issue on West European Politics forthcoming 2018; Guest Editors: Sonia Lucarelli, James Sperling, Mark Webber.
- Director of research of the project Projections and Relevant Effects of Demographic Implications, Changes, and Trends (PREDICT), financed by NATO Allied Command Transformation (2014). http://www.predicters.org.
- Director of the research project Gender and the European Union, research of the Forum on the problems of peace and war financed by the Italian Foreign Ministry (2012-2013).
- Scientific Co-Director of the research team working on the Encyclopedia Atlas of Geopolitics (Atlante di geopolitica) Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani (research 2010-2011).
- Research Programme Coordinator of the unit of the Forum of the Problems of Peace and War in the Research Project EU-GRASP: Changing Multilateralism: The EU as a Global-regional Actor in Security and Peace , funded by the EU under its Seventh Framework Programme 2009-2012 (Call ID FP7-SSH-2007-1). Responsible for the coordination of the sub-workpackages: (i) Security management of Human Rights and (ii) Security management of migration.
- Research Programme Coordinator of the unit of the Problems of Peace and War in the Network of Excellence Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU (GARNET), funded by the EU under its Sixth Framework Programme 2005-2010 (Call Identifier: FP6-2002-Citizens-3);
- Research Director of the project The external image of the EU, developed in the context of the Network of Excellence Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU (GARNET), EU Sixth Framework Programme 2005-2010 (Call Identifier: FP6-2002-Citizens-3); and co-financed by the Italian Foreign Ministry (2006-2009).
- Co-Director (with Furio Cerutti) of the Research Project Search for a European Identity developed within the Jointly Integrated Research Project Normative Issues of the Network of Excellence Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: the Role of the EU (GARNET), EU Sixth Framework Programme 2005-2010 (Call Identifier: FP6-2002-Citizens-3).
- Research Director of the project Values and Principles in European Foreign Policy, financed by the Italian Foreign Ministry (2002-2005).
- Co-director (with Claudio Radaelli) of the research Mobilizing public debate in the European Union (2004).
- Director of Research at the Forum on the Problems of Peace and War, Florence 2001-current.
