The Center for European Studies (CefES) is based at the Department of Economics, Statistics and Management (DEMS) of the University of Milano-Bicocca. The Center promotes research on European countries and on Europe in a global context, in line with the highest standards of international economic research.

CefES brings together scholars from different fields of Economics with the aim of contributing to high-quality empirical and theoretical research on Europe and the global economy.

The Center is part of the Network for European Studies, which includes the European University Institute (EUI), the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University (IEP@BU), the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the KOF Swiss Economic Institute, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA).