Still stunned but incredibly grateful that our research consortium proposal “Social Cohesion: Towards a New Fabric of Society” has been awarded a Summit grant by the Dutch Research Council.
Covering a ten-year period, this unique award in the amount of 30 million euro’s, allows our research consortium to make real scientific impact on a topic that is so clearly relevant to our societies and citizens whose stability and well-being is increasingly threatened by fragmenting communities and polarizing groups.
SOCION is an interdisciplinary project connecting researchers from psychology, history, philosophy, demography, and sociology to better understand how shared values, group processes, and social provisions can connect individuals, groups, and institutions. We focus on complex and multiple connections within society, exploring how to strengthen ties between certain individuals, groups, or institutions without weakening or breaking these ties elsewhere.
Importantly, we will be closely collaborating with societal stakeholders in the design and execution of this research by utilizing existing and new knowledge alliances.
This afternoon at the award ceremony, we celebrated this incredible achievement. Tomorrow, we will get to work!
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