The collaboration with EARS started in early 2018. EARS wanted to expand their global reach, set up a team to create consistent content, and build an impactful network. The overarching goal: bridging the gap between academia and society by showing the impact of religion on the Europe of today. To achieve this, we set up an international team of analysts and built key work processes and tools for the organization. This included the technical development of the EARS dashboard, and the coordination of the analyst team to ensure continuous updates of the summaries of relevant articles on religion and society to this dashboard. 

As a next step, insights from the dashboard were turned into short and accessible articles, published on the EARS website and social media. Further, we set up an event process for organizing round tables, where key topics are discussed with academics, politicians, journalists, and others. Finally, we are continuously building on the EARS network, where we aim to involve a broad variety of individuals interested in religion and society.

As a result of the collaboration, we have enabled EARS to launch its dashboard and new website.

• The website publishes 3 to 5 new articles a week to share insights on the role of religion in society in a way that is accessible to a wide audience.

• The dashboard is a digital tool that offers data visualization features and insights into the role of religion in news across Europe. The tool uses the summaries produced by analysts to categorize and analyze the input, producing graphs, maps, and other insights on the topic. 

With the help of our experienced analyst team, we ensure consistent outputs and publications on the dashboard, website and social media and pave the way for higher international awareness of EARS. And that’s not even all! Throughout the collaboration, EARS and ftrprf organized 15 successful events and oversaw the coordination and the design of follow-up publications.