The Consiglio Italiano per le Scienze Sociali (CSS) is a private, independent non-profit-making institution, created in 1974 and privately funded. It has a membership of 50 scholars, drawn from all the disciplines of the social sciences. Its main mission is to promote interdisciplinary and policy-oriented research. Many of the Council’s members have served or still serve today in government positions. CSS has promoted and organised several comparative research projects and international conferences on such issues as employment policy, the informal economy, the governance of metropolitan areas, decision-making in emergency situations. The secretary-general of the CSS, dr. Alessandro Silj, is Co-Director of the Ethnobarometer Programme. 

Consiglio Italiano per le Scienze Sociali (CSS)
Via Brescia 16
00198 Rome
Italy