Research focus and scientific niche
Societal Resilience & Social Cohesion
Position addresses critical challenges to societal resilience arising from pandemics, conflicts and socio-economic shocks through comparative social and political research on trust-building, institutional legitimacy and social contract renewal to strengthen cohesion across European democracies.
UL infrastructure
Social research data platforms, digital humanities and data analytics labs; AI processing facilities, access to international databases and library resources.
Key partners
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Latvian National Library, Schleswig-Holstein State Library, universities of Potsdam, Mainz, Bielefeld, Verona, Bologna, Athens, Luxembourg, Patras, Bergamo, Krakow etc.