The 800.000 Euro’s will allow Bert to build a research team to study causes and consequences of societal threats. What is the project about? 

With a pandemic, climate change, and terrorist attacks, we have seen threats that could have, or will in the future, fundamentally alter our way of life. The perceptions of threat can disrupt society as threat fuels protest, support for anti-democratic policies, and even leads to violence. In this project, Bert and his team will study how people perceive and regulate threats and adopt political attitudes and behaviours to counter these threats. The project will inform citizens how to deal with the threats of the 21st century and prevent threats from disrupting society. The project will start January 1^st and in the coming years Bert will hire 2 PhD students to work with him on this project. More information about the VIDI can be found here.

Congratulations Bert!