Duration of project
Duration of the project: March 2025 – March 2026.
• Workshop scheduled for December 2025.
• March 2025 – December 2025: 10-month preparatory phase.
• December 2025 – March 2026: 3-month post-event phase
CHANSE projects and partners leading and/or collaborating on the initiative
CHANSE Initiative Lead:
• TRAVIS: Project Lead: Prof Katrin Tiidenberg, [email protected] (EE); Maria Schreiber [email protected] (AT). Website: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/researchmedit/trust-and-visuality-everyday-digital-practices-travis
CHANSE Project Partners:
• REDACT: Project Lead: Prof Clare Birchall [email protected] (UK). Website: https://redactproject.sites.er.kcl.ac.uk
• POLARVIS: Project Lead Prof. Alexandra Segerberg [email protected], Luca Rossi, [email protected] (DK). Website: https://polarvis.github.io/
• REMEDIS: Project Lead: Prof. Leen d’Haenens [email protected] (BE); Prof. Lukasz Tomczyk (PO) [email protected]. Website: https://remedis-chanse.eu/
• DIGISCREENS: Project Lead: Maud Ceuterick, [email protected] (NO), Maria Jansson [email protected] (SE), Jono Van Belle, [email protected] (SE). Website: https://www.uib.no/en/digiscreens/161702/about-digiscreens-identities-and-democratic-values-european-screens
Initiative summary
Driven by challenges like increasing distrust, polarization, misinformation, and conspiracy theories — five CHANSE-funded projects will collaborate to develop a shared and evidence-based agenda for building “digital resilience.” In an age of polycrises and rapid digital transformation, digital resilience is critical for addressing the interrelated vulnerabilities that democracies, societies, cultures, institutions, and individuals face.
We will organise a one-day workshop on “digital resilience” in Brussels to foster dialogue between policymakers, stakeholders and scholars. We will explore digital resilience in three areas: (1) democracy, politics, and delegitimation; (2) affect, (dis)trust, and polarization; and (3) cultures, identities, and belonging (preliminary themes to be finalized in the preparatory phase). These themes highlight how digitalisation creates vulnerabilities across institutions, emotional and social dynamics, and cultural identities, exploring resilience across multiple dimensions and through the technical-regulatory “stack” of interfaces, algorithms, platform vernaculars, internet governance, literacy education and policy.
Audiences
This project is focused on impacting:
• Policymakers (the primary audience for the workshop).
• GPs/doctors, health organisations.
• NGOs, Safer Internet Centres, digital literacy teachers, counter-disinfo organizations, civic education organizations, (digital) policy makers, think tanks, strategic climate communicators.
• Trainers and teacher associations, schools, youth centres, librarians.
• Visual/photo editors in legacy media, producers, public national film agencies, public service television.
• Influencers and content creators.