RED-SPINEL (full title: Respond to Emerging Dissensus:SuPranational Instruments and Norms of European Liberal democracy) is a 3-year (2022 - 2025) interdisciplinary research project with 11 partner organisations from 8 European countries. The aim is to analyse the changing nature of dissensus surrounding liberal democracy and its implications for EU supranational policy instruments, developing a range of scientifically informed policy recommendations and capacity-building efforts to foster innovative democratic practices. It focuses on the key policy instruments and legal mechanisms of the EU, including the EU rule of law toolbox, the neighbourhood and accession instruments, the European Semester, fundamental rights, and judicial instruments, as well as citizen participation platforms.
Consortium Leader: Universitè Libre de Bruxelles (BE) Principal Investigator: Ramona Coman
Luiss Team Members: Raffaele Bifulco, Andrea Capati, Francesco Cherubini, Thomas Christiansen, Ylenia Maria Citino, Adriano Dirri, Cristina Fasone, Ylenia Guerra, Alexandros Kyriakidis, Nicola Lupo, Raffaele Marchetti, Giovanni Piccirilli, Marta Simoncini
REGROUP (full title: REbuilding Governance and Resilience OUt of the Pandemic) is a 3-year (2022 – 2025), research project with 14 partner institutions from 11 countries. The aim is to provide the EU with a body of actionable advice on how to rebuild post-pandemic governance and public policies in an effective and democratic way, based on a map of the socio-political dynamics and consequences of Covid-19 and an empirically-informed normative evaluation of the pandemic. Building on the above, the project adopts a research approach that is multi-mission, multi-level, and multi-sphere, guided by three overarching analytical themes: reordering (related to the notion of change, but underscoring its durability), risk (asymmetries of risk society through exposure to and perceptions of risk), and resilience (ability not only to withstand and cope with challenges but also to transform in a sustainable, fair, and democratic manner).
Consortium Leader: University of Groningen (NL) Principal Investigator: Piero Tortola
Luiss Team Members: Andrea Capati, Thomas Christiansen, Sergio Fabbrini, Mark Thatcher, Vivien Schmidt, Anna Pirri Valentini
REMIT (full title: REignite Multilateralism via Technology) is a 4-year (2023 – 2027), research project with 9 partner institutions, aiming at re-mobilizing a transnational collective spirit that addresses global problems through technology. The project will create knowledge that generates policy recommendations and strategies that support the EU in reconceptualizing multilateral governance in four crucial policy areas: digital, biotechnology, security and defense, and financial technologies, targeting the re-mobilization of a transnational collective spirit that addresses global problems through technology.
Consortium Leader: Maastricht University (NL) Principal Investigator: Roberta Haar
Luiss Team Members: Thomas Christiansen, Fiamma Concarella, Flavia Lucenti, Martina Lucaccini, Raffaele Marchetti, Carolina Polito