The Osservatorio Permanente sui Giovani e l’Alcool is an association that since its creation at the beginning of the Nineties has been involved in the research, study and divulgation of scientifically grounded information on subjects related to the production, consumption and abuse of alcoholic beverages. The objective which characterizes the Osservatorio’s mission is to spread a multidisciplinary culture on alcohol adopting the principles of social alcohology. With this intent, the Osservatorio gathers an open and various community of researchers, experts and communicators whose specific competences on different aspects of alcohology are embedded in a perspective of public divulgation of incisive and complete information on alcohol. In compliance with its purposes of research and communication on several alcohol related issues the Osservatorio develops its activities on the basis of an annual and pluriannual planning focused on matters of great interest for the public opinion. Besides the activities of funding and publication of researches, the Osservatorio has stable relations with several national and international scientific and institutional organizations. It collaborates with other scientific association, it takes part in the national panel discussions on the alcohol/society relationship with its own original perspective and it holds a relevant channel of communication with the public opinion. The Osservatorio Permanente sui Giovani e l’Alcool favors an anti-prohibitionist and harm reduction based approach to contrast alcohol related harms.