Events
5 October 2026
What echoes next: RESONANT Final Event. Enhancing resilience against Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) targeting diaspora communities
As the project approaches its conclusion in November 2026, the RESONANT team is pleased to open registrationsfor the project’s hybrid final event, which will take place on Monday, 5 October 2026, from 12:30 to 17:45 CET, at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) – Brussels Office, Rue du Trône, 62, Brussels, and online.
The event aims to showcase the key achievements of the RESONANT project, highlighting three years of research on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) and information suppression targeting diaspora communities. It will bring together researchers, policymakers, security practitioners, journalists and reporters, civil society organisations and other stakeholders to exchange knowledge, reflect on lessons learned, and discuss future priorities for strengthening democratic resilience.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore the RESONANT Handbook, engage in discussions on policy and operational challenges, know more about how the project’s results can support stakeholders beyond its lifetime, and network with experts from across Europe.
The programme will begin with registration and a networking lunch at 12:30 CET, followed by the official opening at 14:00 CET, and will conclude with a networking cocktail at 17:45 CET.
As in-person attendance is limited, register early to secure your place.
19/20 June 2025
VII Convegno della Società Scientifica Italiana di Sociologia, Cultura, Comunicazione – SISCC “Non c’è più tempo! Crisi ed emergenza nella società contemporanea”
Università di Cagliari Lecture: Information manipulation and suppression. What impacts on diasporic communities in Europe?
Chiara Davino and Pierluigi Musarò
20/21 May 2025
RESONANT at the European Police Congress
International Platform for Senior Leadership of European Police Forces
The team of CEPOLIS – with a delegation of the RESONANT and ATHENA project – participated in the European Police Congress in Berlin. This event provides a unique, high-level platform for exchange among senior leaders of European police forces. In an exclusive setting, political and police decision-makers from across Europe come together to discuss current security policy challenges and to jointly shape strategic directions.
Highlights of the program include keynote speeches by Ministers of the Interior and Justice from various European countries, as well as contributions from internationally renowned figures from politics, public administration, and business. The specialist program offers in-depth insights from leading international experts in the field of security.
The event is accompanied by an exhibition featuring leading providers of innovative system solutions for security agencies, showcasing the latest technologies and developments.
This platform fosters networking, knowledge exchange, and strategic partnerships at a European level.
Read more: Conference – Europäischer Polizeikongress
23 January 2025
V PITCH – PIC AIS “Presence and Present”
Department CoRIS, Sapienza University of Rome Lecture: Information manipulation and interference: diaspora communities as targets (Chiara Davino) Panel: Crisis, information and politics.
1/2 December 2024
RESONANT Annual Meeting in Munich
Our annual meeting took place at the Bavarian Institute of Applied Police and Security Research in Fürstenfeldbruck. Getting together with all the partners and discussing the progress of the project always makes the individual project partners realise how much progress has already been made. In the fight against FIMI we are very happy to be part of the European research team.
16 November 2024
RESONANT at the Open House Event at Bavarian Police University
Sandra Balbierz and Sven-Eric Fikenscher from the Hochschule für den öffentlichen Dienst in Bayern (HföD) did a joint presentation on the dangers and ramifications of (i) extremism-furthering disinformation and (ii) foreign information manipulation and suppression at HföD’s open house on 16th of November, 2024. They presented key insights into the subject matter gained by FERMI and RESONANT projects; the former examines the nexus between disinformation and violent extremism, whereas the latter studies current trends in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference. HföD’s open house was attended by more than 1,500 people.
6 November 2024
RESONANT at the 11th Symposium on New Technologies
On 6th of November, our Communication and Dissemination Manager Sandra Balbierz presented RESONANT at the 11th Symposium on New Technologies at Hochschule für den Öffentlichen Dienst in Bayern with a short introduction to the Russian FIMI campaign Doppelgänger. Together with Daniela Obster who provided some key insights from psychological research on emotions, RESONANT has been presented to an audience of international security practitioners. The conference was about AI in the field of policing.
9/10 October 2024
RESONANT at the DisInfoLab 2024 in Riga
Dace Melbarde, Parliamentary Secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spoke about how best to disrupt disinformation. She summarised that we need to ask ourselves what the goals of disrupting disinformation are. To do this, we need a strategy that has several dimensions:
(1) a sustainable and reliable media (2) a resilient population (especially important in the long term) an
(3) targeted communication that also includes sanctions, so that it is possible to regulate what the media publish and how.
The answers to disinformation are therefore not obvious and it is clear that disinformation requires solution strategies that are long-term, sustainable and widely disseminated. Disinformation is not a problem that can only be solved by a small circle of experts.
11 September 2024
RESONANT at the U.S. Congress: China’s Influence in Europe
Dr. Ivana Karásková, provided oral testimony at the U.S. Congress regarding China’s influence in Europe.
Ivana is one of the leading scholars on China’s malign influence in Europe. She was speaking about Chinese FIMI, including information suppression, political coercion, and risk to research security of European academia and research centers. She also talked about the risks of economic dependencies, China’s position on the war in Ukraine and relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe.
The testimony was public and is archived on the website of the Subcommittee on Europe of the US House of Representatives.
Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eW89T3r6