RESILIENCE, the European research infrastructure dedicated to the study of religion, has been awarded a new HORIZON Europe grant, ensuring two additional years of support to further develop its infrastructure and to get ready for implementation.
This new grant builds on earlier EU funded projects, including the ReIReS project and the RESILIENCE Design Phase. Since 2022, partners have been working on the preparatory phase of the infrastructure. In recent years, however, shifts in the political and scientific landscape have created both opportunities and challenges: these developments influence the timely implementation of the research infrastructure and underline the importance of continued monitoring, preparation and coordination.
The RESILIENCE Transition to Implementation Phase (TIP) Project will focus on several goals essential for bringing RESILIENCE to full maturity:
RESILIENCE is committed to building a robust, innovative, and sustainable European research infrastructure that will support scholars of religion for decades to come.
The new project is a great chance for RESILIENCE to address challenges and opportunities emerged during the Preparatory Phase, four years in which the research practices and questions of the community of scholars studying religions drastically changed with all the possibilities offered by AI. Our community is turning digital, but also needs to access sources, people and equipment physically, onsite. We must get ready to support the changing research environment with an RI that is financially, technically and scientifically sustainable in the long run, to let the scholars concentrate on what they do the best: advancing knowledge. — Francesca Cadeddu, Executive Director of RESILIENCE