The Centre for Economic and International Studies (CEIS) was established by the University of Tor Vergata in 1987. Its mission is to conduct high quality policy-relevant research on economic issues that call for innovative and impact-oriented responses from the academic community; to promote advanced training in key areas of economics. Its research agenda covers different fields of economics, with a special focus on economic development and growth theory, EU economy, health and public policy and others. According to REPEC, CEIS ranks in the top 5% of the world Economic Research Centres and Universities and is one of the first within the Italian research centres.
Role in LongITools
The University of Tor Vergata led work package 8, assessing and quantifying the economic burden associated with metabolic and cardiovascular non-communicable diseases over an individual’s life-course using dynamic microsimulation modelling.