IWM’s Strategic Partnership Initiative with the ERSTE Foundation

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With Europe's Futures - Ideas for Action, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and the ERSTE Foundation aim to understand and address challenges to democracy, rule of law and migratory pressures that threaten Europe and the European Union.

Ivan Vejvoda, Permanent Fellow and Head of Europe's Futures program will moderate the event "As the Ukraine war grinds on, which interpretation of resilience is more likely to win the day?" with Nathalie Tocci. / Picture: © IWM Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen - Institute for Human Sciences

Throughout September, eight prominent experts will outline their work in three public discussions as part of the fifth group of Europe's Futures Fellows.

As the IWM explained, resilience can both mean the readiness to withstand pain and the ability to bounce back and transform. Putin capitalizes on the EU's low threshold of pain endurance in the context of the Ukraine war,…