CISEPS

CENTER FOR

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

IN ECONOMICS, PSYCHOLOGY

AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

“He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.”

Fragment 18, as quoted in The Art and Thought of Heraclitus: An Edition of the Fragments (1981) edited by Charles H. Kahn, p. 105

CISEPS is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The aim of the Center is to contribute to the advancement of social sciences through research focused on the improvement of the explanatory and predictive capabilities of the basic models in social sciences. Its members are scholars working in all fields that can contribute to the achievement of the above goals.

The Center aims to disseminate the output of its scientific research through seminars, workshops and conferences, also creating partnerships with other centers and institutions. Research activities are conducted in Research Units and also open to students of any level, both internal and external to the University of Milano-Bicocca, who can have direct research experiences through internships.

CISEPS has an independent management body, composed of a Scientific Director, two Vice-Directors, and an Executive Board (Scientific Committee), who are responsible for organizing the Center’s activities.

Aims and objectives

Ukraine Support Initiatives

Visiting Scholars

Vira Lykina (Kyiv National Linguistic University)

Oksana Koshulko (Lancaster University M.A.)

Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi (West Ukrainian National University, Ternopil, Ukraine and WSEI University, Lublin, Poland)

Internships

Valentyna Petrenko

Seminars

Volodymyr Vakhitov (American University of Kyiv), "Nudging Civilian Evacuation During War: Evidence from Ukraine"

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

May 5, 2026, 12:00–2:00 pm. Seminar:"Predicting Progress: Intellectual Humility and Accuracy in Forecasts of Global Welfare", by Igor Grossmann (University of Waterloo ); University of Milano-Bicocca, Building U7 - Room 4096, 4th Floor, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8 [Event organized by the CISEPS Unit BIB]
June 8-13, 2026. Summer school Financial Literacy: [Event organized by Obiettivo EFFE with the support of CISEPS]. June 13, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. EFFE Summer Camp Final Conference. University of Milano-Bicocca, Building U6, 1st Floor, room 28, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo 1.

RECENT EVENTS

CISEPS Annual workshop, April 16-17, 2026

Economic Inequality, Political Inclusion, and Public Finance. Program

[Event organized by the CISEPS Units Anthropocene, Inequality, Institutions]

Tavola rotonda: “Le truffe finanziarie tra risparmiatori e istituzioni”, 18 marzo , 2026. Evento organizzato dal Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Aziendali e Diritto per l'Economia con la collaborazione di CISEPS. Programma.
Presentazione del volume “Violenze di genere. Prevenire, comprendere, curare” con l’autrice Costanza Jesurum, 27 marzo 2026, Università di Milano-Bicocca . Programma. [Event organized by the CISEPS Unit Institutions]