The overall objective of ARENAS is to characterise, measure and understand the role of extremist narratives in discourses that have an impact on the political and social spheres, but also on the stakeholders themselves. To reach its overall objective, the ARENAS project will pursue and achieve the following five scientific and technical objectives to address processes from identification to remediation:
By crossing national and European issues and the historical evolution of extremist narratives, three themes have been chosen to allow a precise study of specific cases, which are representative of three major current poles of debate, Science, Nation and Gender. Our research covers 15 European countries.
To achieve the project objectives, given the breadth of research demanded by the topics addressed, the consortium of nine Universities, two SMEs and one NGO, together with three associate partners has organised the project work into seven specific Work Packages. These Work Packages are as follows:
Work Package 1. Coordination and Project Management
Work Package 2. Characterisation and detection of extremist narratives
Work Package 3. Circulation of Extremist Narratives
Work Package 4. Influence and spread of extremist narratives
Work Package 5. Mediations and remediations for extremist narratives
Work Package 6. Ethics, Norms and Politically Sensitive Science
Work Package 7. Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation of ARENAS
In the coming weeks, we will publish a series of articles that focus on each of the seven Work Packages, introduce the Work Package leaders and outline the work and objectives of each Work Package. Follow us on social media to get updates when each article is published.
