Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. It provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between seven high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, egalitarian, majoritarian and consensual, and collects data to measure these principles.

This network aims to bring together experts, researchers and academics of foreign policy institutions and research centres from across the EU to encourage political and security-related dialogue and the long-term discussion of measures to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems within civil society.

The research network Direitas, História e Memória brings together researchers of various nationalities dedicated to the study of right-wing movements in different configurations, both in terms of political aspects and historical and geographical character.

AEGIS is a research network of European studies centres which aims to create synergies between experts and institutions. With primary emphasis on Social Sciences and Humanities, AEGIS’ main goal is to improve understanding about contemporary African societies.

ABORNE is an interdisciplinary network of researchers interested in all aspects of international borders and trans-boundary phenomena in Africa. The emphasis is largely on borderlands as physical spaces and social spheres, but the network is also concerned with regional flows of people and goods as well as economic and social processes that may be located at some distance from the geographical border.

Research Committee 47 (RC 47) has as its central theme the problem of social movements, social stratification/inequality and the latter’s relationship to changing social structures and processes of societies at large. Its focus is contemporary societies, their institutions and actors. Research Committee 47 emerged as the result of fervent debates within social movement research and intellectual networks for more open interdisciplinary approaches.

EISA is an association serving the International Relations community in Europe and beyond. Its aims to bring together academics and others working in the field and subfields of international studies in Europe and beyond. Activities include a broad range of events, ranging from large scale biennial Pan-European Conferences to the European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS), PhD summer schools, Exploratory Symposia (ES) and Early Career Researchers Workshops (ECW). EISA publishes the European Journal of International Relations (with Sage), the PSIR book series (with Palgrave) and is planning a new policy-oriented journal on global affairs.

The European Initiative on Security Studies (EISS) is a Europe-wide cluster of over eighty universities that share the goal of consolidating security studies in Europe. It is (i) thematically-driven and open to all theoretical approaches, (ii) interdisciplinary and (iii) geographically inclusive.

REFAT is an international non-profit structure promoting scientific and technological research on Fascisms, Authoritarianisms, Totalitarianisms, and Transitions to Democracy. Its goals are to promote research, teaching, dissemination, and the application of scientific knowledge on these topics, as well as the creation of collaborative spaces between historians and other social scientists.

ECOLISE recognises the unprecedented ecological, social, economic and political threats to dignified life on planet earth. These threats have been provoked by centuries of ongoing extractive and exploitative institutional systems and practices. In this context, ECOLISE’s purpose is to engage in, support and facilitate accelerated learning and collaboration among community-led initiatives in order to catalyse systemic transformation.

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) was established by a group of twelve founding European universities to break down the barriers between the national traditions of the discipline and create a truly international community of scholars within Europe. Fifty years on, it is the leading scholarly society for political scientists in Europe, with over 300 institutional members in nearly 50 countries.

The CEISAL is an association that brings together European university institutes and research centers dedicated to the interdisciplinary analysis of Latin America. CEISAL’s main objective is to promote knowledge about Latin America in Europe and around the world through interdisciplinary academic research.