AUSE is the Italian Association of ECSA whose main aims are the following:
to promote teaching and university research on European integration;
to develop co-operation among its Members and, through them, the widest possible co-operation between universities throughout the world;
to manage transnational programmes of research and technical assistance, organise conferences and stimulate networks of academic co-operation, offer its expertise to European programmes and carry out studies in the area of European integration;
disseminate information on university activities relating to teaching and research on European integration.
Within this framework AUSE:
gathers the leading professors specialised in European studies coming from 4 different areas: economics, political and social science, law and history.
promotes the research in the European studies enhancing the co-operation among researchers and scholars coming from different fields. With this aim in mind, the Association through the years has organised a large numbers of seminars, congresses and workshops dedicated to the main topic in the European studies field. Moreover the association is editor of a series of books published with the Publishing house Cacucci and is editor of an international review called "the European Union Review";
finally, AUSE issues an on line bulletin called "AUSE News" which informs on:
all kind of activities in research and university teaching on European integration;
