On 29 January 2026, the University of Rome Tor Vergata hosted the high-impact academic and policy conference “Industrial Competitiveness, Strategic Autonomy and Environmental Sustainability: What New Challenges for the European Union?”. The event brought together leading EU scholars, policymakers, legal experts and industry representatives to explore how the European Union can advance industrial competitiveness while strengthening strategic autonomy and delivering on its environmental sustainability goals in a […]

The blue economy is increasingly becoming an ESG issue.Climate adaptation, biodiversity protection, responsible use of natural capital and technology-enabled governance are all converging at sea. In this context, Livorno is emerging as a living ESG laboratory, where research and innovation directly support environmental resilience and sustainable decision-making. On 18 December 2025, the CITEM – Center for Innovation

From 25 to 27 November 2025, the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid successfully hosted the Sustainability Business and Legal Game. An Innovative Teaching Workshop developed within the framework of the Erasmus+ Project BEYOND – Boosting and Enhancing Youngs’ Next generation awareness for ESG values Development. For three days, students from the University of Pisa, CEU San Pablo University (Madrid), the University of

From 25 to 27 November 2025, the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid will host the Sustainability Business and Legal Game, an Innovative Teaching Workshop organized within the framework of the Erasmus+ Project BEYOND – Boosting and Enhancing Youngs’ Next generation awareness for ESG values Development. During the three-day event, students from the University of Pisa, CEU San Pablo University (Madrid), University of

On September 18–19, 2025, the BEYOND Project took part in the XXXVII Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP), held in Naples.Prof. Luca Spataro, Scientific Coordinator of BEYOND and Professor at the University of Pisa, presented the paper “Breaking the Efficiency–Environment Trade-off: The Role of Fiscal Policies, Market Power, and Responsible Consumers”, co-authored with Prof. Thomas I.

The event, organized by Prof. Luca Spataro and Prof. Thomas I. Renstrom, lecturers of Economics of Saving and ESG Investing, featured Dr. Massimo Scolari, Manager at Conformis in Finance (Milan), as keynote speaker. Dr. Scolari’s lecture explored the evolving landscape of ESG investing and the growing importance of sustainability-driven financial strategies. Drawing on official data and regulatory documents from European institutions, he examined how

In February 2025, a new teaching initiative directly linked to the objectives of the Erasmus+ BEYOND Project – Boosting and Enhancing Youngs’ Next generation awareness for ESG values Development was launched at the University of Pisa. The course, titled “Economics of Saving and ESG Investing”, is part of the Master’s Degree Programme in Economics, jointly offered by the Department of Economics and