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In 2024, the Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy (LEAP) launched a new research cluster focused on Home Affairs and Justice. The project's core is the European Research Center for Anti-Corruption and State-Building – Governance Indicators Lab (ERCAS-GIL), which maintains and develops the governance indicators published on Corruptionrisk.org, including:

• Index for Public Integrity (IPI) – 115 countries
• Transparency Index (T-Index) – 143 countries
• Corruption Risk Forecast (CFR) – 120 countries

These internationally recognized indicators are used by the European Commission and leading global media outlets.
The laboratory is part of the European Research Centre for Anticorruption and State-building (ERCAS), founded in 2012 at the Hertie School in Berlin by Professor Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, who is now Professor of Comparative Politics at Luiss Guido Carli. ERCAS is a 21st-century research network with offices in Bucharest, Berlin, Rome, and Kyiv. It uses crowdsourcing to develop governance indicators for over 140 countries.

Over the years, ERCAS has carried out research projects funded by the FP7 and EU Horizon programs, including ANTICORRP, DIGIWHIST, and BRIDGEGAP, and has contributed to the establishment of the ACREC anti-corruption training center at Kyiv Mohyla University following Euromaidan. ERCAS’s activities are supported by the National Endowment for Democracy, through the International Centre for Private Enterprise, and by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programs. The BRIDGEGAP project, conceived and led by Professor Mungiu-Pippidi, is the network’s flagship initiative.