INCLUSIVITY: Inclusivity Norms to Counter Polarization in European Societies
Funding: VolkswagenStiftung
Duration: 2021 to 2024
Project management:
- Prof. Dr. Maarten van Zalk, Osnabrück University, Psychology / IMIS
- Prof. Dr. Marcin Bukowski, Jagiellonen University (PL)
- Prof. Dr. Oliver Christ, Fernuniversität Hagen
- Prof. Dr. Mirinda Lubbers, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ESP)
- Prof. Dr. Eva Jaspers, University of Utrecht (NL)
The project team focuses their research on inclusivity norms, which are social group norms that promote equality-based respect, dialogue and unity, to prevent the harmful consequences of polarization for the social tissue of European communities. The goal of the project is to advance research on current European challenges in three ways. First, to provide an evidence-based approach to countering polarization in Europe. Second, they use experimental and network approaches to inclusivity norms, which will to uncover the relational nature of norm transmission, as well as the conditions under which inclusivity norms amplify tolerance, contact and cooperation. Third, the project will result in open-access empirical data on similarities and differences in inclusivity norms between 16 European countries and groups within European countries, including EU separatist movements (e.g., Catalonia).
