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 Fondazione's activities are guided by four fundamental criteria:
- to analyse relevant and innovative research areas;
- to focus on "real" world issues;
- to integrate multi-disciplinary approaches;
- 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.
