RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE – REligious Studies Infrastructure: tooLs, Innovation, Experts, conNections and Centres in Europe
FSCIRE is the initiator and leading institution of RESILIENCE, an interdisciplinary and scientific research infrastructure for all Religious Studies which builds a high-performance platform, supplying tools and access to physical and digital data to scholars in all disciplines of the religious studies in their diachronic and synchronic variety.
On June 2021, the ESFRI Forum included RESILIENCE in the Research Infrastructure Roadmap 2021.
The RI addresses the need for a broader and more structured involvement of Pan-European excellent researchers, producing skills, new knowledge, a cutting-edge approach and a visible impact in terms of innovation in the scientific field of Religious Studies.
RESILIENCE supplies access to data and tools in learning about and understanding these data, thus it facilitates, invigorates and disseminates high-quality research concerning all religions throughout Europe and globally.
The RI is based on partners who have shared over a decade of effective collaboration, proving its capacity to achieve viable implementation.
Concerning the European level, the consortium partners are the promoters of:
- TRES Network (Socrates Prog. 2006-2010)
- ReIReS starting community (H2020 INFRAIA, 2018-2021)
- RETOPEA Project (H2020, 2018-2021)
- European Academy of Religion (2015-)
The partners are also key players in the construction of the questionnaire submitted for the 2018 ESFRI Roadmap and of the Early Phase RESILIENCE (H2020 INFRADEV, 2019-2021), crucial milestones in the infrastructure implementation journey.
Since June 2022, RESILIENCE has also been receiving funding from the European Community, enabling it to complete the first phase of its development: the preparatory phase, which will last four years. This will be followed by an implementation phase and an operational phase, for a total lifecycle of approximately 35 years. For the phases following the preparatory one, RESILIENCE will be established as an ERIC – European Research Infrastructure Consortium – a legal entity recognized at the European level, whose assembly includes representatives of the governments that provide the infrastructure with political and financial support.
The research infrastructure addresses the need for broader and more structured engagement of researchers from centers of excellence across Europe, generating expertise, new knowledge, cutting-edge approaches, and a tangible impact in terms of innovation within the scientific field of religious studies.
The consortium of partners establishing RESILIENCE is led by FSCIRE and composed of:
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Albanian University, Albania
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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Cineca Consorzio Interuniversitario, Italy
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École Pratique des Hautes Études, France
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Institut für Angewandte Informatik, Germany
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KU Leuven, Belgium
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Sofia University, Bulgaria
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Theological University of Apeldoorn, Netherlands
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University of Münster, Germany
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University of Sarajevo, Bosnia Erzegovina
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University of Warsaw, Poland
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Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Greece
Nel 2023, the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; New Georgian University, Georgia; NOSTER, Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion; University Library Tübingen (Index Theologicus), Germany, joined the RESILIENCE general council.
Francesca Cadeddu, the executive director, speaks about it here:
The INFRADEV Early Phase RESILIENCE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement No. 871127.
For more information and news about the project, visit www.resilience-ri.eu.