Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

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The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) is a non-profit, non-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. To this aim, FEEM has signed over 500 research contracts with external researchers and institutions, an internationalisation rate which is unparalleled in Europe: 70% of the contracts involve foreign researchers and research centres, thus creating an extensive network of scientific co-operation. Conference activities, working papers and books are also evidence of FEEM's research effort in the last 12-year period.

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.

Research is organised into seven main areas: corporate sustainable management; climate change, modelling and policy; privatisation, regulation and antitrust; knowledge, technology and human capital; natural resources management; sustainability indicators and environmental evaluation; global governance and international agreements.

Based on the results achieved in the fields of environmental management systems, climate change modelling and policy, the transfer and diffusion of knowledge and technology, the management of privatisation processes and corporate governance, environmental planning of the territory, FEEM has become the privileged interlocutor of a number of policy institutions, among which the United Nations (UNEP, UNDP, UNSO, CSD and the IPCC), the OECD, the European Commission, the Italian Prime Minister's Office and the Italian Ministries of Treasury, Finance, Foreign Trade, and the Environment, several Italian regions and local municipalities and ISTAT. FEEM has also co-operated 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.