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Economic Fitness & Complexity
summer ScHOOL 2025
THIRD edition
ENRICO FERMI RESEARCH CENTER
(Rome, Italy)
A five-day Summer school on economic fitness and complexity for phd students, early career researchers, and practitioners
A five-day Summer school on economic fitness and complexity for phd students, early career researchers, and practitioners
Organised by Enrico Fermi Research Centre (CREF, Rome), UNU-MERIT (Maastricht), UNU-CRIS (Bruges) and the Young Scholar Initiative (YSI-INET)
An extensive introduction to the economic complexity framework, with theoretical and practical classes, and presentations of state-of-art applications of economic complexity methods in different areas of social sciences
TOPICS
Using complexity analysis for...TOPICS
Economic Development and Growth
Economic Development and Growth
Predicting trajectories of economic development, relying on various sources of data, from co-locations to machine-learning approaches
Economic Geography and Labour
Economic Geography and Labour
Studying local labour markets, labour flows, skill relatedness, job complexity and geographical patterns of inequality and resilience
Firm Dynamics
Firm Dynamics
Mapping firm capabilities, creating new indicators of relatedness and diversification for understanding firm dynamics
Policy
Policy
Informing policy: an overview of the applications at key institutional players suche as the European Commission and at the World Bank Group
Sustainability
Sustainability
Identifying new pathways to a fair and just sustainability transition: the geography of green competitiveness, inequality, green technologies and policies
Science and Innovation
Science and Innovation
Understanding micro and macro patterns of co-evolution of science and technology to provide insights on the national, regional and local innovation systems
oVERVIEW
oVERVIEW
Courses and labs
Courses and labs
The first three days of the school will focus on theoretical and practical classes covering the following topics: economic complexity measurement, network theory, machine learning, measurement of relatedness. Theoretical lectures will be followed by coding labs, where participants will apply the methodologies introduced in class to carry on assigned group projects.
PRESENTATIONS
PRESENTATIONS
In the last day of the school, world-wide renowned scholars have been invited to present their frontier research, linking economic complexity with economic development, economic geography, labour economics, sustainability, economics of science, and innovation policy. At the end of the school, students will also get a chance to present their group projects, and to get feedback on them.
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Speakers
Speakers
Giambattista Albora
Researcher at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Luca Bonamico
Sector economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Filippo Bontadini
Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at Luiss University
Masud Cader
Masud Cader
Country Analytics Lead at International Finance Corporation – World Bank
Bernardo Caldarola
Bernardo Caldarola
Economic Analyst at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Lorenzo Ciari
Lorenzo Ciari
Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Clovis Freire
Clovis Freire
Head of the Commodities Branch of the Division on International Trade and Commodities of UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Nanditha Mathew
Nanditha Mathew
Research Fellow at UNU - MERIT, United Nations University
Carla Sciarra
Carla Sciarra
Economic Analyst at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC)
LECTURERS
LECTURERS
Dario Mazzilli
Dario Mazzilli
Researcher at CREF
Frank Neffke
Frank Neffke
Team leader Science of Cities at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Aurelio Patelli
Aurelio Patelli
Researcher at CREF
Luciano Pietronero
Luciano Pietronero
Full Professor at the Physics Department, La Sapienza University of Rome
Full Professor at the Physics Department, La Sapienza University of Rome
Emanuele Pugliese
Emanuele Pugliese
Research Fellow at UNU - MERIT, United Nations University
Angelica Sbardella
Angelica Sbardella
Researcher at CREF and Research Associate at SOAS-University of London
Andrea Tacchella
Andrea Tacchella
Researcher at CREF
Fabiana Visentin
Fabiana Visentin
Assistant Professor of Economics of Innovation at UNU-MERIT, United Nations University
Andrea Zaccaria
Andrea Zaccaria
Researcher at Institute of Complex Systems – CNR
The Venue
The Venue
Enrico Fermi Research Centre
Enrico Fermi Research Centre
Via Panisperna 89a,
00184 Roma, Italia
Via Panisperna 89a,
00184 Roma, Italia
The Historical Museum of Physics and Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center (CREF) is located in the same building where Enrico Fermi and a group of young physicists conducted the first experiments on neutron-induced radioactivity, fundamental for the future development of nuclear energy.
The Historical Museum of Physics and Enrico Fermi Study and Research Center (CREF) is located in the same building where Enrico Fermi and a group of young physicists conducted the first experiments on neutron-induced radioactivity, fundamental for the future development of nuclear energy.
Following the inspirational lead of Enrico Fermi, CREF aims to develop original and high-impact research lines based on physical methods with a strong interdisciplinary character. Here physicists collaborate on a daily basis with specialists in various fields: artificial intelligence, biology, medicine, social sciences, and economics.
CREF also hosts a modern Historical Museum of Physics dedicated to Fermi’s scientific legacy, to offer wide dissemination and communication of his life and his discoveries.
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