The Chair on Small Area Methods for Monitoring of Poverty and Living conditions in EU (SAMPL-EU) aims at introducing students and stakeholders to the study of local statistics on poverty and living conditions in order to provide reliable evidence to monitor EU regional policy. The aim of the Chair is threefold:i. enhancing the students’ and stakeholders’ abilities to understand and analyse the existing set of poverty and living conditions indicators in Europe (multidimensional and Laeken poverty indicators), (un)employment rates, subjective well-being indicators);ii. building up and teaching a statistical tool-box of Small Area Methods based on traditional and new techniques of survey data collection and integration in order to produce local values and estimates of the indicators for the monitoring of the effects of European Regional Policy;iii. educating the students to communicate the results of the Small Area Methods to the stakeholders, to feed the evidence–based process of policy making with flash-estimates and to provide guidance on what might be the problems that arise in the reliability of the estimates and in the quantitative evaluation of regional policy.The academic added value of the proposal resides in the deepening of the themes treated in the curriculum in official statistics of the Master of Science in Economics of the University of Pisa. This insight is unique and novel in the curricula at graduate level in Pisa, and as far as I know in Italy and Europe.Studies on European Union are promoted focussing on poverty and living conditions across Europe and on the existing production process of European official data and indicators both at national and international level. The proposal has an impact at International level because the Master of Science in Economics is in the EMOS network and the content of the courses and events under the Chair can be attended also in a distance-learning format as we are doing for the EMOS Spring School.