• Concept development and improving operationalization of political trust and affective polarization.
  • Enhance the general knowledge on political trust, including the factors determining changes in political trust and affective polarization.
  • Providing countermeasure activities to enhance political trust, paying special attention to communication strategies and content.
  • Providing countermeasure activities to enhance political moderation, paying special attention to communication strategies and content.
  • Understanding the effect of illiberal and anti-elite discourses in political trust, with special attention to countries where successful political actors have reached important levels of support.
  • Understanding the interplay between affective polarization and political trust.
  • Understanding the interplay between affective polarization and support to illiberal and right-wing extremism and populist parties.
  • Understanding the effect of certain emotions and personality features have on political trust, especially in the context of illiberal and anti-elitist political discourses.
  • Improve methodologically the intersection of survey data, experiments and the collection of big data.
  • The development of artificial intelligence and deep reinforcement learning in the analysis of political trust and affective polarization.
  • Contribute to the field of comparative survey methodology via empirical assessments of the most recent developments on line survey data.
  • The creation of an unique dataset combining different and innovative mixed methods in five countries (three from Southern Europe and 2 from Latin America) that will be available to the scientific and expert communities.
  • Synergies between the academic and private sectors in the development of algorithms and artificial intelligence to create political trust and political moderation.
  • Synergies and collaboration between data engineers, survey methodologists and practitioners, political scientists and expert in public opinion, and experts in communication.