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SISTER PROJECTS
In this section, we're delighted to spotlight our esteemed sister projects, each contributing significantly to the field of countering extremism.
These projects share common objectives with SMIDGE, focusing on understanding and mitigating the impact of extremist narratives.
We're delighted to spotlight our esteemed sister projects, each contributing significantly to the field of countering extremism.
These projects share common objectives with SMIDGE, focusing on understanding and mitigating the impact of extremist narratives.
The ARENAS (Analysis of and Responses to Extremist Narratives) project, funded by the EU Horizon Programme, spans four years and focuses on extremist narratives influencing European political and social dynamics. It involves a consortium of nine universities, an NGO, two SMEs and three associated impact partners.
ARENAS aims to dissect these narratives, particularly in relation to science, gender and nationality, with the goal of empowering individuals to resist them. Policy recommendations will be generated to prevent the proliferation of such narratives in the future, fostering a harmonious coexistence in Europe. Ultimately, ARENAS strives to characterise and understand the role of extremist narratives in discourses impacting not only politics and society, but also the stakeholders themselves. Through its research, the project seeks to bridge gaps in contemporary scholarship, offering recommendations to policymakers, media, legal professionals, social inclusion experts and educational institutions, all with the aim of countering extreme narratives and cultivating a more inclusive and respectful European society.
The OppAttune (Countering Oppositional Political Extremism through Attuned Dialogue: Track, Attune, Limit) project aims to enhance social and political dialogue by examining and reducing the
negative impact that can emerge from political extremism. OppAttune tracks the evolution of
oppositional extreme ideologies and protectionist decision-making, develops an innovative
attunement model and tests a series of interventions at the national and transnational levels which
limit the spread of extremism.
OppAttune revitalises trust in key democratic institutions. Its actions
involve an on-line I-Attune self-test interactive to build democratic capacity across diverse publics.
OppAttune brings together an ambitious multi-disciplinary team of academics and practitioners to
examine the evolution of political extremism and its influence on social and political dialogue with
the aim to track, attune and limit the spread of oppositional extreme narratives. OppAttune provides
micro, meso and macro level evidence-based recommendations and strategies designed to counter
the potential of extreme narratives to disrupt democratic growth. It delivers this via a multi-
disciplinary consortium of 17 countries across the EU and its periphery.