The Centro Studi Eoliano
The Centro Studi Eoliano is a non-profit association that promotes and positively exploits the cultural, historical and environmental heritage of the Aeolian Islands.
The Centre publishes a rich catalogue of books on Aeolian culture, outstanding among which are the Cinema series, which deals with films shot on the islands (Il Postino, Caro Diario, Stromboli, L’Avventura, Kaos etc.), the series on Travellers who have visited the Aeolians (Dumas, Maupassant, Luigi Salvatore etc.), books of Aeolian history, Guidebooks and Itineraries. New titles for 2010 are:

- “Cineolie” by Nino Genovese
- “Uno sviluppo sostenibile” by Paola Pajno
- “Emigrazione eoliana in Argentina” by Susanna Tesoriero
- “La lunga notte di Lipari” by Giuseppe La Greca

For summer 2010 the Centro Studi has organised a dense calendar of cultural events open to everyone. The events include:
 
- The film festival A SEA OF CINEMA – EFESTO D’ORO PRIZE, now in its 27th year, will be held from 9th to 18th July 2010 with events on all seven islands. The film festival, by now a regular date, aims at positive exploitation of an archipelago that has made Italian cinema history (from Rossellini to Antonioni, from Moretti to Troisi). The sections programmed for 2010 are: “Events”, “Women of Sicily”, “Cinema Islands”, “Campus”, “A Sea of Books” and “Aeolians in Video”, a competition dedicated to film shorts with assignment of the Efesto d’oro prize.
 
- AEOLIAN CULTURAL AFTERNOONS, a traditional date also in its 27th year, consist of a refined selection of cultural events in the evening (book presentations, lectures, debates, films and concerts) held in the gardens of the Centro Studi in Via Maurolico, Lipari. They are often followed by an aperitif with typical Aeolian products. They enrich the Aeolian summer with a cultural dimension and are a unique occasion to meet others with similar interests. Well known cultural figures, Italian and foreign, are expected this year including Louis J. Ignarro (Nobel prize for Medicine), writer Lidia Ravera, journalists Marcello Sorgi and Alberto La Volpe and many others.