The Group

Research Community

In order to strengthen and widen the relations with Italian Research Centres and think tanks, the Research Department has launched in November, 2007 a series of seminars addressed to Italian researchers working in Security and Defence, Strategic Analysis and International Relations areas, coming – among others – from the Aspen Institute Italy, the Military center for Strategic Studies (CeMiss) and the Italian Institute of Foreign Affairs (IAI).

The first cycle of seminars ended in mid-2009. Each meeting saw two main moments: first a seminar by a guest speaker on a Group's relevant subject, and an open debate in which the researchers discuss on current international affairs.

First cycle of seminars of the Research Community (2008-2009)

Occasional Paper "Baricentres"

From May 2009 to October 2010, the Research Community activity focused on the writing of the Occasional Paper “Barycentres: the global shift of political, economic and technological balances?”, a collective work belonging to the Occasional Paper series edited by Finmeccanica’s Research Department. The different essays composing “Baricentres” have been selected through a Call for Proposals within the Research Community itself.

“Baricentres” has been publicly presented both in Rome at Finmeccanica’s premises and in Milan, hosted by the Institute for International Policy Studies (ISPI).

DOWNLOAD: (787 kb) Baricentres (Italian)

The Fulbright Programme

The Fulbright Program was launched in 1946 in the United States, and in 1948 Italy decided to meet this challenge by establishing the Commission for Cultural Exchange between Italy and the United States. Since 1948, over 7,000 Italian scholarship holders have taken part in the Programme. 

Since 2008 Finmeccanica is sponsoring a scholarship award together with the Fulbright Commission to celebrate the Italian Fulbright Program’s and Finmeccanica’s 60th anniversaries. The scholarship, which is awarded each year, is open to graduates holding a degree in a science subjects and covers the full costs of a 2-years master course in one  of a number of US universities.

On March 15th and 16th last, the second Fulbright-Finmeccanica workshop was held in the Finmeccanica NA headquarters in Washington, attended by eleven Fulbrighters, including the winners of the Fulbright-Finmeccanica scholarships for 2011.
 
The event was enlivened both by the top managers from some of the Group’s companies in the US – including Finmeccanica NA, Alenia NA, AnsaldoBreda NA, DRS Power & Control Technologies and SELEX Galileo NA – and by numerous representatives of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, guided by its chair, Anita McBride, who gave all those taking part a hearty and warming welcome.

The success recorded once again this year for the event is a clear encouragement to make this workshop a fixture among the many events promoted by Finmeccanica in the United States, with the aim of taking ever firmer roots in the US and constantly improving our understanding of the American academic and research scenes.

DOWNLOAD: (61 kb) 2nd Fulbright workshop

Research Institutes

The Research Department started to collaborate with the following national and international think tanks to promote and develop joint research activities:

• CER - Centre for European Reform, London
• Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London
• Conseil de Coopération Economique, Paris
• CSIS - Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington
• EPC - European Policy Center, Bruxelles
• IAI - Istituto Affari Internazionali, Rome
• ISPI -  Istituto per gli studi di Politica Internazionale, Milan
• Nomisma - Società di Studi Economici, Bologna  
• SACE, Rome

Information Sources

The Research Department works in partnership with important and influential consultancy, information and intelligence companies, including:

• IHS Jane’s  - Information and intelligence company for the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Transportation sectors;
• IHS Documental Solution - online database provided by Jane's allowing in-depth bottom-up business and market intelligence analysis in the A&D sector;
• IHS Global Insight - Information company for economic, macroeconomic, geopolitical and financial analysis of the main countries and geographical areas;
• Economist Intelligence Unit - Information company for economic, macroeconomic, geopolitical and financial analysis of the main countries and geographical areas;
• Frost & Sullivan - Consulting company providing market analyses for the Aerospace, Defence, Security, Energy and Transportation sectors;
• Flight International - Information provider for the civil and military aeronautical sector.