The Government of Catalonia has recognized the Observatory of European Foreign Policy as consolidated research group for the period 2017-2019. The agency responsible of the concessions, AGAUR (Agència de Gestió de Grups Universitaris i de Recerca), has granted the Observatory 36.800 € that will serve to support research activities of the group. Since the year 2005, the Observatory has been recognized by the Catalan government as research group in the four different calls (2005, 2009, 2014 and 2017).
The Observatory group for the period 2017-2019 is coordinated by Esther Barbé and is composed by the researchers Oriol Costa, Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Marta Íñiguez de Heredia, Patrícia Garcia-Duran, Robert Kissack, Laia Mestres, Pol Morillas, Margarita Petrova, Juan Pablo Soriano, Eduard Soler, Martijn Vlaskamp and Jordi Mas. Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Michal Natorski, Benjamin Kienzle, and Gemma Collantes Celador participate as well in the group as research collaborators.