THE VISION OF ISMed: "for a Mediterranean of peace and prosperity".
The ISMed is inspired by a vision of a Mediterranean of peace and prosperity, based on the values that unite the countries in the area.
It comes from the idea that the Mediterranean can be an opportunity for growth and development for both the richer countries of the northern and southern shores and from the awareness that scientific research is the tool to realize these opportunities.
THE MISSION OF ISMed
The mission of the Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean (ISMed) is to identify and analyze the dynamics of the processes of growth and socio-economic development of the countries of the Mediterranean area. Through a strongly interdisciplinary and long-term approach, ISMed's research focuses on specific themes such as the study of migration, energy and the environment, the nature of economic and social development processes, logistics and transport, urban development, the development of network infrastructures and the dissemination of technologies in socio-economic and cultural fields, artistic and cultural heritage.
The research activity has not only scientific and academic purposes but also informative and popular purposes.
The ultimate aim of ISMed is to provide interpretative theories of phenomena, projections on possible future scenarios and policy guidelines that can support targeted interventions to reduce imbalances and stimulate growth in the area.

Financial crises, credit systems or forms of charity, difficulties in offering guarantees, exclusion from loans: these are very topical issues, but they have their roots in the past. In the Euro-Mediterranean regions there is a long history of the emergence and spread over time of various institutions and forms of financial assistance, which in some cases gave rise to real banks.
The book:
Nei banchi pubblici napoletani.
Repertorio dei titolari dei conti con maggiore movimentazione tra il 1734 e il 1804.
edited by Daniela Ciccolella e Luigi De Matteo
Cnr edizioni, Roma 2021
is now available
For the G20 of 20-21 july 2021 in Naples, dedicated to environmental issues, Gabriella Corona (CNR-ISMed) presents an important discussion on the need for training in environmental history, to open us up to the knowledge of those long-term processes that have led to today's environmental problems.
Marco Armiero, manager of research at CNR-ISMed and director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, was confirmed President of the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH).
Consulte, rappresentanze, progetti per l'economia del Regno di Napoli, I, 1734-1739
edited by D. Ciccolella, A. Clemente, B. Salvemini
CNR Edizioni 2021
is now available
Wasteocene
Stories from the Global Dump
by Marco Armiero
Cambridge University Press 2021
is now available
It's now available the book:
Underground Built Heritage Valorisation. A Handbook
Proceedings of the First Underground4value Training School
COST action CA18110, Heritage and Community Identity series n. 1
Editors: Giuseppe Pace, Renata Salvarani
CNR Edizioni (2021)
A short video presentation of CNR-ISMed is published on the Instagram channel comunicazionecnr for the #meetCnr project, which collects presentations by institute directors.
The ISMed carries out, promotes and coordinates research activities with objectives of excellence at national and international level, aimed at expanding knowledge in the field of human sciences, identified in the framework of European cooperation and integration and collaboration with universities and other entities, both public and private. It carries out activities of communication and promotion of research, taking care of the dissemination of the related economic and social results within the country. It collaborates with the region and the local administrations, in order to promote, through joint research initiatives, the development of the specific productive realities of the territory.
The Institute plays an important role in many third mission activities, such as the dissemination of the results of scientific research to the general public, participation in committees and councils, training activities also in school-work alternation and support activities for companies.