The EU Security Initiative (EUSI) aims to foster forward-looking, values-based dialogue and research on European security and defence.

Rooted in the EUI’s dual identity as a research university and international organisation, and aligned with its vision for a future EUI, the EUSI aims to construct spaces to productively and critically connect academia and policy. It does so through facilitating a format of structured and recurring exchange between researchers, policymakers, practitioners, private sector and civil society actors across Europe—breaking silos, fostering co-creation, and exploring both urgent and long-term security challenges.

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European security has been in flux since Russia brought war to the European continent. More recently the second Trump administration has added new questions to how European security must be managed and what role the EU and NATO might have in an increasingly demanding geopolitical context. Indeed, it seems that after decades where European security was mainly provided by the United States, whilst the EU concentrated on bringing security and prosperity to unstable and conflict-prone parts of the world, security is now something that must be provided by, for, and in Europe itself. As a result security and defence issues are now on the top of the European political agenda – including the agenda of the current Danish EU Presidency.

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