Francesco Nicoli

Research support

Grants, funding & funded projects

Selected competitive grants, commissioned studies, and collaborative projects supporting research on European governance, public opinion, industrial change, health, energy, and crisis politics.

2026-2030

LIFe - Intergenerational Fairness: A Life-Course Approach

European Commission - Horizon Europe

Role
Research team member
Funding
EUR 436,562.50 Politecnico contribution

A seven-country project developing a life-course framework, harmonised indicators, and an open-source microsimulation toolkit for assessing how policies distribute opportunities, risks, and resources across generations.

2024-2025

GREENPRO

European Climate Foundation

Role
Principal investigator and team leader
Funding
EUR 80,000

Research with a Bruegel team on qualitative criteria in European public procurement, including green public procurement. The project supports a research paper, seminars, and research personnel.

2024

I4.0 FUTURES

High Strategic Council of Wallonia

Role
Principal investigator and team leader
Funding
EUR 27,000

A commissioned foresight study of long-term Industry 4.0 scenarios and their implications for production, labour markets, and the socioeconomic structure of Western societies.

2023-2026

DISTRES

Italian Ministry of University and Research - Rita Levi Montalcini programme

Role
Principal investigator
Funding
EUR 238,000

A research programme on crises in the European Union, combining a large cross-national public-opinion survey with an experimental component and a book-length study of crisis-led integration.

2023-2025

FUSEU

Italian Ministry of University and Research - PRIN PNRR

Role
Lead, public-opinion work package
Funding
EUR 265,000 project total

Research on the history and political feasibility of international cooperation on nuclear fusion, with responsibility for experimental data collection and a postdoctoral research component.

2022-present

END-VOC

EU Horizon consortium and University of Amsterdam

Role
Lead, public-opinion work package
Funding
EUR 102,500 award

Cross-national experimental research on the public feasibility and governance of responses to infectious diseases within a multidisciplinary consortium spanning 22 countries.

2019-2024

EUGOV: Economic Governance of the EU

Ghent University - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Starting Grant

Role
Principal investigator and team leader
Funding
EUR 250,000

Research on European governance in times of crisis. The project supported a major public-opinion survey, doctoral research, and postdoctoral research on economic governance, the pandemic, and the consequences of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

2021

Viral Solidarity

University of Amsterdam ACES and AMCIS, with Ghent University and Radboud University Nijmegen

Role
Co-principal investigator
Funding
EUR 60,000 across funding sources

A multi-university survey experiment conducted at a critical moment in the pandemic to study preferences for alternative forms of European fiscal capacity and to extend a longitudinal panel on policy preferences.