About Us

Founded in Naples in 1990 by a group of scholars from various disciplines under the name "European Institute for New Professions", today the Permanent Seminar of International Studies (SSIP) is a think tank - a space ("seminar") for analysis and comparison - dedicated to the study of international and, more specifically, European dynamics. It is a non-profit institute that carries out research and training on politics, economics and international law, the European Union, international governmental and non-governmental organizations. It carries out its mission and its institutional activities both through classroom meetings in the Italian (and European) territory and through the "virtual classroom" or "Blended Learning" and "e-learning" platform. The Seminar, as per its statute, intends to support and promote any action of research, studies, higher education, with the aim of developing the international and European consciousness, in particular the transmission of the common values of the United Nations Organization (UN), the International Organizations (I.O.) and the European Union (EU). The Seminar also intends to sensitize the civil society to an active, democratic and civic participation to international and European issues, in particular to the knowledge of fundamental rights and freedoms, of Italian and European citizenship rights, of free movement in the EU, of youth mobility and tourism; of communication, private and public, promoting the exchange of best practices among institutional communication professionals; of new emerging professions at international and EU level.