Established in 2015 at the EUI, the Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre is a unique research hub on European cooperation and integration from the twentieth century to the present. It is a joint initiative of the Historical Archives of the European Union and the EUI’s Department of History and Civilisation.

The Centre supports young researchers in the field, coordinates networks of historians, facilitates the use of primary sources and increases public interest in the history of European integration.

Créons cette solidarité de la raison et du sentiment, de la liberté et de la justice. L’Europe ne trouvera son salut que dans cet esprit héroique de liberté et de sacrifice qui a toujours décidé aux grandes heures de l’histoire.

Alcide De Gasperi «Le basi morali della democrazia», Brussels, 20 November 1948 (HAEU, ADG 96)