Dr. Luisa Chiodi 

Gastwissenschaftlerin

E-Mail: chiodi@balcanicaucaso.org

 

 

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Current research project:

"The contribution of Communities of Practice for the European Integration of the Balkans (CoP - CET)"
The project explores how Communities of Practice born out of the implementation of Interreg projects and participation in EUSAIR policy fora can further the European integration of the Western Balkans.
and
"The view on the European integration process of political parties across EU member states"
The research deepens understanding of the ideological divides shaping attitudes toward the EU enlargement among political parties across all member states, which was initiated with the policy paper Political parties in the EU and the challenges of enlargement, FEPS POLICY BRIEF February 2025.
 

Current Postion 

Director of Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) 
www.balcanicaucaso.org
 

Fields of research 

• EU Enlargement
• civil society
• transnational solidarity

Short biography 

Luisa Chiodi has been the director of Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa since 2006. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Science from the European University Institute of Fiesole (Florence) and a degree in Political Science from the University of Milan. From 2003 to 2008 she was lecturer for the chair of 'Eastern European studies' at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Bologna. She coordinated several research projects and is author of publications on civil society and transnational social dynamics
 

Selected publications

LUISA CHIODI, FAZILA MAT, OLIVER SCHMIDTKE (2025) "Seizing Transnational Opportunities in Times of Political Backlash: The Transformation of Civil Society Organizations’ Activism in Italy" in Contentious Politics in the Transnational Arena,  Chiara Milan, Aron Buzogany, Palgrave Macmillan

LUISA CHIODI (2025) Political parties in the EU and the challenges of enlargement, FEPS POLICY BRIEF February, ISBN 978-2-39076-008-5

LUISA CHIODI (2025) "The Balkan route" in Elena Calandri, Karolina Golemo, Jesús Ventura Fernández, Cooperation, Interdependencies and Security in the Mediterranean, Routledge

LUISA CHIODI, MATTEO BONOMI (2025) "Advancing EU Enlargement to the Western Balkans: Aligning Expectations and Realities" in Documenti IAI, July

RAFFAELLA COLETTI e LUISA CHIODI (ed. by) (2024), La politica di coesione per la sicurezza energetica e la sostenibilità ambientale, ll Sole 24 ORE, Isbn: 9.791.254.836.507

RAFFAELLA COLETTI e LUISA CHIODI, EU Macro-Regional Strategy in the Adriatic and Ionian Region: A Territorial Perspective on the EU Enlargement Policy (2024), Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

FAZILA MAT, LUISA CHIODI e OLIVER SCHMIDTKE (2024) Europeanization as Pragmatic Politics: Italy's Civil Society Actors Operating in the Face of  Right-wing Populism, Social Sciences (Basel)

LUISA CHIODI e FRANCESCO MARTINO (2023) Nuove sfide, nuove ambizioni. L'allargamento dell’UE ai Balcani occidentali dopo l'invasione russa dell'Ucraina, Vigoni Paper n. 2

CHIARA MILAN e LUISA CHIODI (2022) "Grassroots European solidarity. Italian solidarity movements in the Western Balkans in the 1990s and 2020s and their visions of Europe", Southeastern Europe n.46 pp. 248–270

OBCT/CeSPI (2021) EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR) facilitating the enlargement process of Western Balkans, European Commission