Toolkits & Publications
OppAttune | Inception Meeting Report
This report documents the OppAttune project’s kick-off meeting, held on 24–25 April 2023 at Panteion University, Athens. Representatives from all 17 partner organisations gathered to discuss project management, ethics, deliverables, and impact strategies. The meeting featured presentations from the European Commission and sister projects SMIDGE and ARENAS, as well as breakout sessions for the first six work packages.
Stay connected with OppAttune’s progress as we work together to counter everyday extremism across Europe.
Ellen Scott, Dr Sandra Obradović, Dr Evangelos Ntontis ,Professor Kesi Mahendran and Alex Pękalski .
The Open University
September 2024
OppAttune | Independent Research Advisory Committee
Terms of Reference
The IRAC supports the OppAttune project by ensuring research integrity and ethical standards. Its key responsibilities include reviewing research materials, advising on the attunement model, ensuring impartial data collection and providing feedback on tools and deliverables. Two formal reports will be delivered mid-term and final and the IRAC will also participate in the Winter Academy in Portugal.
Follow IRAC’s contributions to ensure transparency, ethical rigour and impact across OppAttune’s research.
Dr Sandra Obradović and Professor Kesi Mahendran
The Open University
January 2024
OppAttune | Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Policy
OppAttune’s EDI policy ensures that equality, diversity, and inclusion are embedded across the project’s design, research activities, and outputs. It defines equality as non-discrimination, diversity as respect for difference, and inclusion as equitable participation. Grounded in intersectionality, the policy addresses systemic barriers and power imbalances, including Eurocentrism.
Hasret Dikici-Bilgin and Irini Kadianaki
Istanbul Bilgi University & University of Cyprus
January 9th 2024
OppAttune |Policy Toolkit Report for Developing Regulatory Rights Pathways D2.1 & Regulatory Rights Toolkit for Attuning Everyday Extremism D2.2
This toolkit, developed through the Horizon Europe OppAttune project, equips policymakers and civil society leaders to address everyday extremism. Using the Regulatory Rights Prism (RRP), it helps assess how rights and regulations interact across diverse contexts. Drawing on 18 real-world case studies, it offers practical tools to foster inclusive dialogue and democratic resilience.
Use this toolkit to shape smarter, rights-based policies and take action against the spread of polarising narratives today.
S. Sawyer, Z. Zarić, H. Dikici Bilgin, I. Kadianaki, E. Anastasiou, E. Panagiotou, S. Lee and E. Abbott-Halpin, P. Warda and W. Warda.
The Centre for Critical Democracy Studies
The American University of Paris
November 2024
OppAttune | Regulatory-Rights Interactive Website D2.3
At the heart of this website is the Regulatory Rights Prism (RRP) a diagnostic tool that helps users assess policies through three dimensions: context, belonging, and outcomes. It supports comparative analysis of extremist narratives by exploring how public protections and human rights interact across national and global settings.
The site features case studies, practical tools, and the Everyday Extremism Scale, helping users identify and respond to environments where extremist ideas become normalised.
Explore the toolkit to foster democratic dialogue, understand complex policy environments and counter everyday extremism.
S. Sawyer, Z. Zarić, H. Dikici Bilgin, I. Kadianaki, E. Anastasiou, E. Panagiotou, S. Lee and E. Abbott-Halpin, P. Warda and W. Warda.
The Centre for Critical Democracy Studies
The American University of Paris
November 2024
OppAttune | Skills development and understanding cross-country labour transitions D3.1
This report explores how job displacement driven by automation, offshoring, and digital change can increase vulnerability to polarising narratives. Using data from 46,000 workers across 29 European countries, it shows that upskilling significantly improves employment prospects and helps reduce the risks linked to economic insecurity.
Labour transitions matter. So does how we respond to them.
Use this evidence to strengthen workforce resilience and design skills strategies that support inclusion and stability in changing labour markets.
Thales Lima and Umut Korkut
Glasgow Caledonian University
November 2024
OppAttune | An economic well-being behavioural toolkit D3.2
This deliverable introduces a four-step toolkit that links job insecurity to behavioural vulnerabilities and the appeal of extremist and protectionist narratives. Focusing on 11 key dimensions from income security to workplace support it offers practical strategies to reduce the psychological and social impacts of job-related stress.
Grounded in behavioural economics and CEDEFOP data, the toolkit helps policymakers, employers, and civil society foster secure, inclusive work environments.
Use this toolkit to strengthen resilience, reduce polarisation, and support well-being through informed, preventative action.
Thales Lima, Umut Korkut and Roland Fazekas
Glasgow Caledonian University
November 2024
OppAttune | Offshore vs Reshore Gaming Tool D3.4
This deliverable explores how protectionist narratives and political instability influence corporate decisions on offshoring and reshoring. Using a game-theoretic model, it shows that firms often choose reshoring in unstable markets, prioritising resilience over cost-efficiency. These shifts impact global supply chains and European labour markets, increasing volatility.
Understanding these dynamics is key to shaping responsive economic policy.
Use this insight to support balanced, resilient labour strategies and reduce the disruptive effects of protectionist pressures.
Thulani Moyo, Umut Korkut, Thales Lima and Imoh Okoronkwo.
Glasgow Caledonian University
January2025
OppAttune | Interactive Map of transnational governance scenarios D3.5
Deliverable 3.5 introduces an innovative Interactive Map that visualises reshoring, offshoring and hybrid governance trends across Europe. Built on data from 2003–2024, it helps users explore how corporate decisions impact labour markets, supply chains, and social cohesion, especially under the influence of protectionist narratives and political instability.
The map offers dynamic insights for policymakers, researchers and industry leaders.
Explore the map now to understand how governance choices shape economic resilience and social stability: Human Rights, Public Regulation, and Transnational Governance Scenarios – RRP toolkit
Thales Lima, Maggie Laidlaw, Zona Zaric, Thulani Moyo and Umut Korkut.
Glasgow Caledonian University and American University of Paris
January 2025
OppAttune | Visualisation report of emerging extremist
narratives across Europe D4.1
This report maps contemporary extremist narratives circulating online in Austria, Bulgaria, and Sweden. It identifies two dominant themes: anti-migration rhetoric and anti-establishment conspiracy theories, particularly those amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging topics include climate change and gender.
These narratives spread across both mainstream and fringe platforms from Reddit and Telegram to national forums like Flashback (Sweden) and BG-Mamma (Bulgaria).
Use these insights to monitor digital discourse, inform counter-narrative strategies and strengthen democratic dialogue online.
Tina Askanius, Miriam Haselbacher, Ursula Reeger and Jullietta Stoencheva
Malmö University and Austrian Academy of Sciences
19 January 2024
OppAttune | Translocal articulations of extremism in three countries Visualisation report on Austria, Bulgaria, and Sweden D4.2.
This report explores how extremist narratives emerged during the 2024 European Parliament elections in Sweden, Austria, and Bulgaria. Using ethnographic and visual analysis, it identifies six key themes: political discontent, gender, migration, war, conspiracies, and climate change shaping online and offline discourse. Memes played a central role in spreading transnational narratives, often blending humour with hostility.
The findings reveal a troubling normalisation of violent rhetoric in everyday political conversation.
Use this research to better understand how extremism evolves and to develop strategies that protect democratic dialogue across Europe.
Tina Askanius, Miriam Haselbacher, Jullietta Stoencheva and Ursula Reeger
Malmö University and Austrian Academy of Sciences
11 November 2024
OppAttune | Modelling networks of extremist narratives D4.5
This report explores how extremist narratives emerged during the 2024 European Parliament elections in Sweden, Austria, and Bulgaria. Using ethnographic and visual analysis, it identifies six key themes: political discontent, gender, migration, war, conspiracies, and climate change shaping online and offline discourse. Memes played a central role in spreading transnational narratives, often blending humour with hostility.
The findings reveal a troubling normalisation of violent rhetoric in everyday political conversation.
Use this research to better understand how extremism evolves and to develop strategies that protect democratic dialogue across Europe.
Biljana Mileva Boshkoska, Zoran Levnajić, Petra Kralj Novak, Jullietta Stoencheva and Tina Askanius.
Jožef Stefan Institute
1st April 2024
OppAttune | Framework paper on emergence of opposition drivers across sites and shared dialogical interventions D5.1
This framework paper defines key concepts behind everyday extremism narratives and behaviours that reinforce “us vs. them” divisions and introduces the idea of opposition drivers: the psychological, social, and political barriers that block engagement with differing perspectives.
Drawing on cross-disciplinary research and ethnographic case studies from Turkey, Portugal, and Germany, it presents a conceptual toolkit for analysing how opposition emerges across five levels: culture, social relations, politics, context, and lived experience.
Use this framework to identify and address the root causes of polarisation, and to support more inclusive, democratic dialogue.
Eleni Andreouli (Open University), Samarjit Ghosh (Ozyegin Universitesi), Joana Ricarte (Universidade De Coimbra), Susan Rottmann (Ozyegin Universitesi), Harald Weilnböck (Cultures Interactive) and António Leitão (Universidade De Coimbra).
31st May 2024
OppAttune | Five Country Good Practice Case Studies Report in facilitating social dialogue for resilient democracies, including depicting successful social dialogue practices that may dissolve tendencies of polarising and extremism D5.2
This report presents six community-based practices ranging from collaborative ethnography to psychoeducational workshop. Developed across Turkey, Germany, Portugal, Bosnia, and Serbia. These methods foster social dialogue, strengthen democratic engagement, and help counter everyday extremism.
Grounded in ethnographic research, the report introduces key concepts: social dialogue, living democracy, and attunement – the capacity to engage constructively with difference.
Use these adaptable practices to build inclusive, resilient communities and reduce polarisation through meaningful dialogue.
Susan Beth Rottmann (Özyeğin Universitesi), Harald Weilnböck (Cultures Interactive), Samarjit Ghosh (Özyeğin Universitesi), Joana Ricarte (Universidade De Coimbra), António Leitão (Universidade De Coimbra), Stevan Tatalovic (ISAC), Jasmin Jasarevic (PRONI) and Eleni Andreouli (Open University)
January 2025
OppAttune | Five Country Methods Handbook on principles for multi-method, multi-disciplinary social dialogue interventions D5.3
This handbook offers practical guidance for implementing community-based methods to reduce everyday extremism through social dialogue. Drawing on case studies from five countries, it outlines adaptable tools such as collaborative ethnography, gamification, narrative group work and psychoeducational workshops.
These methods foster empathy, critical thinking, and democratic engagement. which are key to building resilient, inclusive communities.
Use this toolkit to create safe, participatory spaces for dialogue and equip communities to counter polarisation with understanding and connection.
Susan Beth Rottmann (Özyeğin Universitesi), Harald Weilnböck (Cultures Interactive), Samarjit Ghosh (Özyeğin Universitesi), Joana Ricarte (Universidade De Coimbra), António Leitão (Universidade De Coimbra), Stevan Tatalovic (ISAC), Jasmin Jasarevic (PRONI), Eleni Andreouli (Open University) and Emma Rühlmann (Cultures Interactive)
April 2025
OppAttune | Everyday Extremism Scale D6.1
This report outlines the development of the Everyday Extremism Scale, which is a tool designed to measure how extreme behaviours and attitudes become normalised in daily life. Built through a rigorous, multi-stage process, the scale is intended for use at a societal level, not for individual profiling.
It supports the WIDE-Lens Survey in identifying the psychological drivers and social impacts of everyday extremism.
Use this scale to track societal trends, inform interventions and strengthen democratic resilience.
Dr Rebekah Mifsud and Prof. Gordon Sammut
University of Malta
September 2024
OppAttune | WIDE Lens Country Report on Psychological Drivers, Identities and Worldviews on Everyday Extremist Behaviour D6.4
This report presents findings from the WIDE Lens survey, conducted across 13 countries, to explore how psychological and ideological factors influence everyday extremist behaviours (EEB). Key drivers include beliefs in limited social mobility and system justification, with younger and economically secure individuals showing higher EEB tendencies.
The study highlights the complex role of disaffection and identity in shaping attitudes.
Use these insights to inform targeted interventions that address the roots of disaffection and strengthen democratic resilience.
Xenia Chryssochoou and Antonis Dimakis, with the authors of the individual country reports listed within the report.
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
May 2025
