ENSURED

Shaping Cooperation for a World in Transition

Pandemics, inequality, mass migration, climate breakdown: these are challenges that know no borders. To face them, we need collective action on a global scale. But global rules, norms, and institutions are under strain. In an age of great power rivalry and compounding crises, what will it take to revitalise international cooperation?

ENSURED is a three-year, Horizon Europe-funded research project that will investigate how the European Union can do better in leading the defence of multilateralism – and succeed in making global governance more robust, effective, and democratic.

What’s New?

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Regulating Cyberspace: UN Consensus-Building in a Fragmented Digital World
digitalisation
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5/5/2025
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Research Report
Regulating Cyberspace: UN Consensus-Building in a Fragmented Digital World
The UN Human Rights Council: Challenges and Opportunities for Reform
migration and human rights
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5/5/2025
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Research Report
The UN Human Rights Council: Challenges and Opportunities for Reform
The Intellectual Property and Public Health Regime Complex: Considerations on Vaccine Access and Equity
health and pandemics
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5/5/2025
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Research Report
The Intellectual Property and Public Health Regime Complex: Considerations on Vaccine Access and Equity
Climate Negotiations Under Scrutiny: Is UNFCCC Decision-Making Up to the Challenge?
climate and sustainability
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5/5/2025
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Research Report
Climate Negotiations Under Scrutiny: Is UNFCCC Decision-Making Up to the Challenge?
Revitalising and Reforming the World Trade Organization in an Age of Geopolitics
trade and inequality
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5/5/2025
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Research Report
Revitalising and Reforming the World Trade Organization in an Age of Geopolitics

Our Research

In reports and policy briefs, ENSURED assesses the state of play across key topics in global governance and investigates how the EU is working to defend and transform multilateralism.

Our Focus Areas

We introduce new concepts to enrich our understanding of global governance in academic debates and across different thematic areas.
We consider ways to revitalise the World Trade Organization and promote a fairer global trading system.
We analyse the positions of key climate actors and formulate recommendations to strengthen global environmental governance.
We investigate how the World Health Organization can improve health governance as well as vaccine access and equity around the world.
We propose new ways to strengthen migration and human rights governance and offer recommendations to reform key frameworks and institutions.
We explore three key domains of global digital governance: the regulation of cyberspace, digital currencies, and artificial intelligence.
We examine intersecting global challenges to understand how differences in governance impact global cooperation.
We identify where the EU has the most influence and suggest strategic priorities and choices with respect to global governance transformation.
We raise awareness about global issues and foster (more) informed debates on how global governance should be transformed.

The ENSURED Consortium