Projects

Ongoing

  • OPEN (2023–present): COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action exploring how the rise of new nationalisms and geopolitical tensions affect European higher education and research.
  • Far-Right Protest Observatory (FARPO) (2018–present): FARPO produces and houses data on protests organised by far-right groups in European countries in the last twenty years.
  • The PopuList (2018–present): Overview of populist, far-right, far-left, and Eurosceptic parties in Europe since 1989.

Finalised

  • Protest and Democratic Quality (ProDem) (2021–2023): Interdisciplinary project funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung assessing the medium- and long-term effects of the triple interaction between citizens, social movements, and movement parties on European countries.
  • Far-Right Protest in Europe (FARPE) (2018–2021): Cross-national project providing systematic knowledge about the nature, evolution, and characteristics of far-right protest in Europe between 2008 and 2018.
  • Anticorruption Policies Revisited (ANTICORRP) (2016): Large-scale project funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) investigating factors that promote or hinder the development of effective anti-corruption policies.
  • Mobilizing for Democracy (2016): European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project addressing social movements participation in democratisation processes, from transition to the deepening of democracy.
  • The Populist Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe (2010–2014): Comparative project focusing on the ideology, impact, and electoral performance of this party family in the region.