On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Institute of Catechetics, the activity of research of the Catechetics Observatory International was formally constituted, The structure of high research, directly dependent from Direction of the Institute of Catechetics of FSE (UPS,Roma). The COI does not constitute a centre of assistant research, but a coordination of common designs of high research, managed directly from the Institute of Catechetics; for this task, the Director of ICA is assisted from a Coordinator of this project in the person of Prof. Don Antonino Romano sdb.