Presentation

The Fondazione Centro Studi sul Federalismo (FCSF), established in 2000, recognized by the Prefecture/UTG, is today a Foundation, with the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation and the Universities of Turin, Pavia and Milan as founders and the Polytechnic of Turin as co-founder.

The CSF Foundation operates as a think-tank with a policy-oriented vocation, promoting interdisciplinary research, information and documentation activities on the topics of international relations, geopolitics and European integration, in synergy with universities, research centers, public institutions and private entities, at a national and international level.

Hosted in the headquarters of the Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation in Turin, since 2016 it has operated as the General Secretariat and Research Center of Robert Triffin International (RTI), which is based at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and whose activity focuses on the reform of the international monetary system.

The library of the CSF Foundation, specialized in studies relating to European integration, maintains approximately 14,000 volumes and a rich newspaper library, which constitutes the Gianni Merlini European Section of the Norberto Bobbio Library.