- The Family Studies and Research University Centre is a founding member of REDIF.
REDIF, the European Network of Family Institutes, was founded in May 1997, it belongs to F.I.U.C., the International Federation of Catholic Universities. The Director is Costanza Marzotto, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. REDIF publishes online the journal La famille, George Eid is the editor.
Since 2018 the Center has collaborated with Relational Studies in Sociology, an international network of sociologists sharing the relational sociology paradigm.
Our Center has participated in the activities of SACRU - Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities since 2021, in particular has actively collaborated with Working Group 4 Family Life (referents professors Rosa Rosnati and Elisabetta Carrà) and with Working Group 7 Gender Equity in the University (referent professor Claudia Manzi). - Besides, the Center has joined the program of the Family Global Compact promoted by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The Family Global Compact is a shared program with Universities and Research Centers for the promotion of the family according to the social doctrine of the Church and for a synergy with the Church, in particular with pastoral care of the family (referent professor Rosa Rosnati).
- Prof. H. L. Ackers, Centre for Research on Family, University of Leeds, UK.
- Prof. L. Acitelli, University of Huston, USA.
- Prof. C. Andrade, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
- Prof. J. Arnett, Clark University, USA.
- Prof. L. Ayuso Sanchez, Universidad de Malaga, Spain.
- Prof. R. Banse, Universität Bonn, Germany.
- Prof. G. Bodenmann, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
- Prof. B. K. Barber, University of Tennessee, USA.
- Prof. G. Bonanno, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
- Prof. E. Bonnet, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France.
- Prof. S. Bould, University of Delaware, Newark, USA.
- Prof. T. Bradbury, UCLA – University of California, USA.
- Prof. J. Brannen, University College London, UK.
- Prof. D. Brodzinsky, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.
- Prof. S. Browning, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, USA.
- Prof. H. Buhl, Univeristy of Paderborn, Germany.
- Prof. A. Cardoso Torres, IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.
- Prof. R. Cavallotti, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
- Prof. F. Chacon Fuertes, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain.
- Prof. A. Ciola, Appartenances Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Prof. W. Cook, University of New England, USA.
- Prof. R. I. Cortés Jiménez, Early Institute, Mexico.
- Prof. E. M. Cummings, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
- Prof. P. Cumsille, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
- Prof. M. Dalen, University of Oslo, Norway.
- Prof. J. H. Déchaux, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France.
- Prof. A. De Longis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
- Prof. A. Z. Duvander, Stockholm University, Sweden.
- Prof. C. A. Domínguez Hidalgo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
- Prof. R. Emery, University of Virginia, USA.
- Prof. T. Ferrarini, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Sweden.
- Prof. C. Finkenauer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
- Dr. M. Fontana Abad, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
- Prof. S. Gable, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
- Prof. A. Giza-Poleszczuk, University of Warsaw, Poland.
- Prof. H. Grotevant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
- Prof. L. Gvaldaite, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
- Prof. M. Hubert, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- Prof. F. Juffer, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
- Prof. K. Jurczyk, The German Youth Institute (DJI), Munich, Germany.
- Prof. K. Kayser, Graduate School of Social Network, Boston College, Boston, USA.
- Prof. S. Koeva, Medical University-Varna, Bulgaria.
- Prof. J. Konieczna, University of Warsaw, Poland.
- Prof. R. Lee, University of Minnesota, USA.
- Prof. R. Limmer, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Nuremberg, Germany.
- Prof. T. Martos, University of Szeged, Hungary.
- Prof. B. Maurines, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France.
- Prof. G. Meil Landwerlin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spagna.
- Prof. P. Mena Matos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
- Prof. A. Milic, IPS - Institute for Political Studies, Belgrade, Serbia.
- Prof. L. C. Miller, Tufts University, Boston, USA.
- Prof. T. Miller, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
- Prof. J. Mohanty, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
- Prof. B. Montulet, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- Prof. M. R. Moro, Université Paris Cité, France.
- Prof. A. M. Omoto, Claremont Graduate University, California, USA.
- Prof. J. Palacios, Psicologia evolutiva e dell'educazione, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
- Prof. V. Paniotto, Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, Ukraine.
- Prof. I. Pavluytkin, St.Tikhon's Orthodox University, Russia.
- Prof. C. Perez Testor, Blanquerna-Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.
- Prof. E. Pinderhughes, Tufts University, Boston, USA.
- Prof. G. Poussin and Prof.ssa M. Simon, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Grenoble, France.
- Prof. T. Revenson, The City University of New York, USA.
- Prof. A. Revillard, ISP-GAPP, Institut des sciences sociales du politique - Groupe d'analyse des politiques publiques, Cachan, France.
- Prof. V. Richardson, University College Dublin, Ireland.
- Prof. A. L. Rygvold, University of Oslo, Norway.
- Prof. F. Rosenbaum, Association Appartenances, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Prof. G. Saba, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
- Dr. V. Sallay, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
- Prof. N. Schneider, The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Wiesbaden, Germany.
- Prof. D. Schoebi, Department of Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Prof. S. Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
- Prof. J. Scott, School of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Australia.
- Prof. C. Sedikides, University of Southampton, UK.
- Prof. P. Slade, University of Liverpool, UK.
- Prof. C. Sluzky, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
- Prof. D. Snyder, Texas A&M University, USA.
- Prof. B. Soenens, Ghent University, Belgium.
- Rev. D. P. Sullins, PhD, The Catholic University of America, Washington, USA.
- Prof. J. R. Steen, Institute for Social Research (ISF), Oslo, Norway.
- Prof. M. Teigen, Institute for Social Research (ISF), Oslo, Norway.
- Prof. S. Theie, University of Oslo, Norway.
- Prof. S. Thalberg, The Migration Studies Delegation, Sweden.
- Prof. W. Tieman, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- Prof. G. Trommsdorff, Universität Konstanz, Germany.
- Prof. Y. Vanderborght, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
- Prof. V. Vignoles, University of Sussex, UK.
- Prof. K. Wall, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.
- Prof. S. Walper, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germay.
- Prof. F. Walsh, The Chicago Center for Family Health, USA.
- Prof. A. J. Widener, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
- Prof. E. Widmer, Université de Genève, Switzerland.
- Prof. A. M. Yevenes, Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile.