Ongoing Projects
Explore CERRE’s ongoing work on the regulatory questions shaping Europe’s digital, green and competitive future.
From AI and digital markets to energy resilience, mobility, sustainability and competitiveness, our projects explore the questions shaping Europe’s future — turning independent research into clear, evidence-based policy insights
Competition, competitiveness and innovation
Online safety and content
Competition, competitiveness and innovation
Better Institutions for a Better Digital Rulebook
Project Timeline
Scope / Context
This project maps regulatory overlaps and institutional coordination mechanisms across the EU digital rulebook and makes recommendations to improve the framework. It examines how to enhance regulator independence at EU and national levels, examines lessons from existing policy networks (BEREC, ECN, EDPB, CPC), and proposes options for more coordinated enforcement. The project addresses fundamental policy tensions between different regulatory objectives and how to manage them for consistency and predictability.
Academic Team
Richard Feasey
CERRE Senior Advisor
Alexandre de Streel
CERRE Academic Director
Zach Meyers
CERRE Director of Research
Implementing the DMA
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Scope / Context
This project addresses four key implementation challenges for the DMA: improving regulatory dialogues between the Commission and gatekeepers, strengthening the High-Level Group for policy consistency, maximising synergies between public and private enforcement, and enhancing cross-jurisdictional regulatory learning with the US, UK, and Japan.
Academic Team
Marc Bourreau
Academic Co-Director and University of Paris
Zach Meyers
CERRE Director of Research
Alexandre de Streel
CERRE Academic Director
Richard Feasey
CERRE Senior Advisor
Giorgio Monti
Research Fellow and University of Tilburg
Online safety and content
Implementing the DSA
Project Timeline
Scope / Context
This project assesses the implementation and early effects of the DSA on the governance and transparency of digital platforms. It draws on academic research and stakeholder engagement to assess compliance and enforcement processes. The project aims to support a more effective, evidence-based, and inclusive enforcement of the DSA ahead of its first review.
Academic Team
Miriam Buiten
Research Fellow and University of St. Gallen
Sally Broughton Micova
Academic Co-Director and University of East Anglia
Alexandre de Streel
Academic Director and University of Namur
Artificial intelligence
A Legal Framework for Agentic AI
Project Timeline
Scope / Context
This project examines how AI agents challenge EU's legal and regulatory frameworks across competition policy and the DMA, consumer protection and the DSA, cybersecurity and privacy protection, and the AI Act. It explores whether regulation needs incremental adaptation or fundamentally new legal categories and safeguards. The project assesses how concepts like liability, accountability, disclosure, and delegation must evolve to enable trustworthy AI agents while protecting consumers and managing systemic risks.
Academic Team
Friso Bostoen
Research Fellow and Tilburg University
Thomas le Goff
Research Fellow and Télécom Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Zach Meyers
Director of Research
Christoph Busch
Research Fellow and University of Osnabrück
Antonio Manganelli
Research Fellow and University of Siena
AI and IP
Project Timeline
Scope / Context
This Project examines how AI challenges EU intellectual property law and regulatory frameworks across copyright protection, trade secrets, and database rights. It explores three interconnected dimensions: the use of IPR-protected content for AI training, the allocation of intellectual property rights to AI-generated outputs, and the licensing and commercialisation of AI systems. The project assesses whether existing copyright carve-outs and fair use doctrines remain fit-for-purpose, or whether new legislative frameworks are needed.
Academic Team
Peter Georg Picht
University of Zurich
Energy
Unlocking Data Centre Flexibility
Project Timeline
Scope / Context
This project examines how DCs can help alleviate grid stress by providing flexibility and related system services. It will assess the extent to which flexibility is realistically available through DC operations (having regard to commercial and operational realities), and evaluate how this potential can be reinforced.
Academic Team
Kong Chyong
CERRE Research Fellow and Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Daniel Duma
CERRE Research Fellow and Stockholm Environment Institute
Ewa Lazarczyk Carlson
CERRE Research Fellow and Reykjavik University Business School
Anna Rita Bennato
CERRE Research Fellow and Loughborough University
Thomas Le Goff
CERRE Research Fellow and Télécom Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris
