Coping with varieties of radicalization into terrorism and extremism (VORTEX)

The EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network VORTEX (Coping with varieties of radicalization into terrorism and extremism) brings together eight partners (universities and research institutes) which will employ ten doctoral candidates.

About the project

See the project page for more information: VORTEX (mau.se)

VORTEX’s overarching aim is to develop new evidence-based innovative strategies to counter and prevent ideological and behavioural radicalization.

VORTEX will provide an integrated and meaningful research programme not only but primarily for doctoral candidates to pursue their research in a fruitful and meaningful dialogue among relevant disciplines and in a dense web of supervision, training, and interaction to jump start both successful and relevant careers.

VORTEX will explore and compare different varieties of radicalization in several empirical settings. Practice-based research with our 14 associated partners, connecting doctoral candidates to future job markets and audiences, will offer the opportunity to investigate radicalisations on several levels, ranging from local to global and from cognitive to behavioural.

Project period: January 2023 - December 2026

Partners

  • Malmö University (Sweden) (coordinator) 
  • Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Germany)
  • The University of Marburg (Germany)
  • The University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • The University of Turin (Italy)
  • The Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
  • The University of Oslo (Norway)
  • Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)

VORTEX also has 14 associated partners from different sectors: (1) law enforcement, judiciary agencies, providers of welfare services, and state security; (2) civil society organisations; and (3) research institutes.

  • The Danish Prison and Probation Service
  • The Deaconess Foundation
  • Oslo Kommune
  • The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • Kommon Ground
  • The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR)
  • Violence Prevention Network (VPN)
  • Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
  • Gadjah Mada University
  • Das Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft (IDZ)
  • Mindanao State University Institute of Peace and Development in Mindanao
  • The Coordination Unit for Threat Analysis (CUTA)
  • University of Central Florida (UCF)
  • Universiteit Utrecht (UU)

Funding

This project is funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network (Grant Agreement no. 101073440).

Published Nov. 17, 2022 9:59 AM - Last modified Dec. 27, 2023 10:28 AM