Here you can find an overview of the 39 work packages being addressed in the current funding period of RISC (2024 – 2029).
For an overview of the 109 research projects that were implemented during the first funding period (2020 – 2024), please refer to our German website.
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A_07 - Ecological Transformation and Anti-Democratic Crisis Mobilization
06/2024 – 05/2029
Work package A_07 examines positions and practices that delay, prevent, or reverse climate protection measures. Of particular interest are settings in which collective practices of “resistance” to transformative measures take shape. Political majorities opposed to climate policy emerge…
» View detailsA_11 - Polarization Dynamics on Social Media
06/2024 – 05/2029
This work package (WP) examines current dynamics of politicization and polarization on social media, their emergence, and their effects. It is based on the observation that digital media in particular function as opportunity structures for politically extreme actors and, due to their…
» View detailsD_09 - Allyship: Solidary Engagement, Identity, and Social Cohesion
06/2024 – 05/2029
Democratic societies are characterized by ongoing processes of negotiation over interpretive authority, normative frameworks, identities, and participation, which require continual reconfigurations of collective action. As a specific practice of such action, this work package (WP) offers…
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