Annual report 2004 - Compagnia di San Paolo

Permanent Organisations
Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto
Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto
www.collegiocarloalberto.it
The Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto (Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation) was
established on 27 April, 2004 from a joint initiative of the Compagnia di san Paolo and Turin
University. The Foundation aims at “promoting, managing and strengthening, together with the
University of Turin, advanced research and training in the fields of economics, finance and economic
law, and in other similar areas”. The Foundation, chaired by Onorato Castellino, furthers the activities
performed over the 1999-2004 period by the Collegio Carlo Alberto Consortium, encompassing and
coordinating a number of research and teaching initiatives, involving Italian and foreign teachers,
researchers, students. The Collegio Carlo Alberto is undergoing the restoration of the old royal
building complex in Moncalieri to create a multifunctional structure for research and teaching.
Today the Collegio hosts three masters organised by CORIPE Piemonte, Consorzio per la ricerca e
l’istruzione permanente in economia (Consortium for Economic Research and Lifelong Training) and
2 post-graduate courses of Turin University. Furthermore, it houses the Centro di ricerca su
previdenza, fondi pensione e politiche di welfare (CeRP - Center for Research on Pensions and
Welfare Policies), the R. Revelli – Centro studi sul lavoro (Centre for Employment Studies-
LABORatorio), The Centro studi sul federalismo (CSF - Research Centre on Federalism), the Centro
di ricerca sul diritto e l'economia del trasporto pubblico locale e dei servizi regolamentati
(HERMES - Higher Education and Research on Mobility Regulation and the Economics of Local
Services), the Consiglio italiano per le scienze sociali (CSS - Italian Council for Social Sciences), the
Centro interuniversitario di analisi comparata del diritto e dell'economia, economia del diritto,
economia delle istituzioni (CLEI - Interuniversity Centre for Comparative Analysis of Law and
Economy, Economic Law, Institutional Economics), the Unità di ricerca sulla governance europea
(URGE - Research Unit on European Governance) and, since April 2005, the Istituto di ricerca
sull’impresa e lo sviluppo (CERIS – CNR - Research Institute on Enterprises and Development).The
Doctoral Programme in Economics, promoted and organised by Turin University in partnership with
the University of Eastern Piedmont (coordinators: Alessandro Sembenelli and Giuseppe Bertola;
http://web.econ.unito.it/dotsciecon/) and the International Ph.D. Programme in Comparative
Analysis of Institution, Economics and Law (IEL), promoted and organised by the CLEI (coordinator:
Gianmaria Ajani. www.iel-turin.it), are both based at the Foundation. The Centro interuniversitario
CLEI (Interuniversity Centre for comparative analysis of law and Economy, Economic Law,
Institutional Economics), chaired by Pierre-Jean Benghozi and directed by Enrico Colombatto, was
established in May 2003 in a joint initiative of Cornell Law School, Paris École Polytechnique (Centre
de Recherche en Gestion), Turin University (S. Cognetti De Martiis Department of Economics of the
University of Turin and the G. Prato Department of Economic and Financial Studies) Universiteit van
Gent (Law School, the Centre for Advanced Studies in Law and Economics) supported by the
Compagnia di San Paolo.
CORIPE (www.coripe.unito.it) chaired by Terenzio Cozzi and directed by Vittorio Valli, closed the
2003-2004 editions of the Master in Economics, Master in Finance and Master in Economics and
Health Policies. The Master in Economics is open to first year students of the Doctorate Programme
in Economics of Turin University. CORIPE, in cooperation with the Collegio Carlo Alberto Foundation
organised the second year courses of the PhD in Economics, and the PhD in Institutional Economics
and Economics of Creativity of Turin University.
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