Identity and Mission

RESILIENCE stands for: REligious Studies Infrastructure: tooLs, Innovation, Experts, conNections and Centres in Europe.

In its form, RESILIENCE is a new ESFRI Research Infrastructure project, identified in the 2021 update of the ESFRI Roadmap. Its mission is to address the challenge of creating a larger, structured involvement of excellent scholars who innovatively produce competencies, knowledge, approaches and impact within the scientific domain of Religious Studies.

Identity and Mission of RESILIENCE

  • RESILIENCE is a unique, interdisciplinary and invigorating distributed research infrastructure for Religious Studies, building a high-performance access platform, supplying data, tools and expertise to scholars from all the scientific disciplines crossing religions in their diachronical and synchronical variety.
  • RESILIENCE’s mission is to address the challenge of creating a larger, structured involvement of excellent scholars who innovatively produce competencies, knowledge, approaches, and impact within the scientific domain of Religious Studies.
  • RESILIENCE supplies easy access to digital as well as physical data on religion and to advanced tools in knowing and understanding these data, and thus facilitates, invigorates and disseminates high-quality research concerning religion all over Europe and beyond.
  • RESILIENCE primarily serves the academic community, and at the same time its impact extends significantly to the non-academic community: it offers the tools for an innovative approach which can be used to build a European response to the challenges of diversity of religion.
  • RESILIENCE is based on the excellency of partners who have proven to be able to collaborate in a collegial and efficient way. Many of the partners share more than a decade of fruitful collaborative relationships, proving the capacity to achieve an implementation which is feasible and stable.
  • RESILIENCE allows the production of knowledge, because knowledge is the prolific field on which is possible to generate further innovative methods and tools.

In short, RESILIENCE:

  • brings Religious Studies for the first time ever systematically into the European Research Infrastructures Roadmap;
  • promotes research in Religious Studies as a combination of digital and analogue layers;
  • addresses both the demand of knowledge about religions and of technological tools enhancing that demand;
  • puts users first;
  • serves academia.

 

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