Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• Informing voters, reducing affective polarisation: an experimental informative hub for the 2025 Polish presidential elections
• Rebuilding governance and resilience out of the pandemic

Completed

• Helping mobile EU citizens to exercise their political rights in European Parliamentary Elections 2019
• European Parliament political groups and European integration
• Renovating representative democracy
• Narrating COVID-19: how Europe as Union fares
• Integrating diversity in the European Union
• European elections mobilisation and participation hub 2024 (EUROHUB24)
• Differentiation: clustering excellence

Recent research output

• HEMERIJCK, Anton; GENSCHEL, Philipp; STOLLE, Dietlind; CICCHI, Lorenzo; RUSSO, Luís; NASR, Mohamed; SCHELKLE, Waltraud; KRIESI, Hanspeter; OANA, Ioana-Elena; MOISE, Alexandru Daniel; KOVAREK, Dániel; TRUCHLEWSKI, Zbigniew (2025), EUI-YouGov SiE survey on solidarity in Europe : trendfile and yearly datasets, Dataset
• CARAMANI, Daniele; CICCHI, Lorenzo (2024), The relief-reform divide : an analysis of national responses to Covid-19 in seven EU member states' recovery plans, Technical Report
• FRANCESCA, Martina; FEISEL, Franca Maria; CICCHI, Lorenzo (2024), National mini-public report : Italy, Technical Report
• CARAMANI, Daniele; CICCHI, Lorenzo; PETROVA, Ana (2023), The health-economy divide : a structural analysis of sectoral affectedness and Covid-19 policy preferences in Europe, Technical Report
• REILJAN, Andres; CICCHI, Lorenzo; GARZIA, Diego; FERREIRA DA SILVA, Frederico; TRECHSEL, Alexander H. (2023), Party placement in the void : the European political space in 10 years of cross-national voting advice applications, Working Paper
• VOLPI, Elisa; CICCHI, Lorenzo; WIDMANN, Tobias (2022), Pandemic frames : how is the European Union narrated by Italian (populist) parties during COVID-19’s first wave in Italy, Contribution to book
• PIZZIMENTI, Eugenio; CALOSSI, Enrico; CICCHI, Lorenzo; MASI, Beniamino (2024), Do parties converge? : an empirical analysis of party organizational and policy issue saliency change in Western Europe (1970-2010), Article
• TELLE, Stefan; DE BLOK, Lisanne; DE VRIES, Catherine; CICCHI, Lorenzo (2022), Elite-mass linkages in the preference formation on differentiated integration, Article
• TELLE, Stefan; DE BLOK, Lisanne; DE VRIES, Catherine E.; CICCHI, Lorenzo (2022), Elite-mass linkages in the preference formation on differentiated integration, Working Paper
• FERREIRA DA SILVA, Frederico; REILJAN, Andres; CICCHI, Lorenzo; TRECHSEL, Alexander H.; GARZIA, Diego (2023), Three sides of the same coin? : comparing party positions in VAAs, expert surveys and manifesto data, Article