Depuis le 1er février 2010, la Chaire est soutenue par le 7e programme-cadre européen comme partenaire du programme RELIGARE - Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe - qui rassemble 13 universités de 11 pays dont la Turquie. Le 13 janvier 2011, la Chaire participe au meeting Leuven "religious Diversity in European Workplace".
 
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The purpose of RELIGARE is to identify in Europe – on a solidly argued and documented basis – which normative frameworks, precedents (case-law based), and policies are best capable of holding together the countries’ diverse inhabitants in a democratic structure, and in so doing, the frameworks that should underpin and anchor Europe’s task to remain, across the Union, a zone of social peace, founded on (new) diversity, while remaining respectful of the rule of law and of social justice for all. The basic concern, leading all activities undertaken and supported within RELIGARE, will be the search for appropriate regulations to reach these goals.
The project is supported by a grant of more than 2.5 million Euros from the EU Commission.
Collective Website : www.religareproject.eu
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4 specific research areas :
The RELIGARE investigations will focus on four specific research themes/areas in which to test, by way of case studies, the overall objectives. A separate team has been created for each of these four topics. They are:
• The Family, dealing with personal status and family affairs;
• The Work Place, covering issues around access to the labour market and labour relations;
• The Public Space, concentrating on religious and other symbols in the public space and on the fundamental question of whom the public space belongs to, who has access to it, and the use to which it is put;
• State Support, analysing State support to religious and secular groups.
These topics have been selected since they permit an examination of the concrete cases that are particularly pertinent and that have the potential of showing, by way of practical examples, where the hotspots are and of proposing possible solutions for the conflicts between religious and secular values.
The coordination of the research activities on these four areas is the responsibility of a separate Prospective Approach team, which will systematically and over the three years, take care not only of the interaction between the four thematic teams, but also of the RELIGARE’s interdisciplinary endeavours. For this purpose, it will work closely with a team of sociologists, so as to ensure the coordination between the legal and sociological research.
(Kick-off meeting, KULeuven, 4-5 february 2010)
Religare European Network : 13 Universities
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Professors Marie-Claire Foblets (Law of Migration and Anthropology) (coordinator) and Rik Torfs (Canon Law), Dr. Thalia Kruger (Private International Law);
• Københavns Universitet (Denmark), Professors Jørgen Nielsen (Islamic Studies)(co-coordinator), Lisbet Christoffersen (Law and Religion, and Theology), and Hanne Petersen (Sociology of Law and Jurisprudence);
• Università Degli Studi di Milano (Italy), Professor Silvio Ferrari (Canon Law) (co-coordinator), Dr. Christiana Cianitto (Law and Religion);
• Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom), Dr Prakash Shah (Ethnic minorities and the law, Immigration and Nationality Law, and Legal Pluralism);
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique PRISME (France), Professor Francis Messner (Religious Sciences);
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (France), Professors Philippe Portier (Political Science, Religious Science), Dr Denis Pelletier (Religious Science), Dr Jocelyne Cesari (Political Science, Middle East and Islamic Studies), Dr Bérangère Massignon (Religious Affairs);
• Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), Professor Mathias Rohe (Arabic and Islamic Law, and Private International Law);
• Centre for European Policy Studies (Belgium), Dr Sergio Carrera (European Policy Studies, and Migration), Ms Anaïs Faure-Atger (European Policy Studies, Human Rights, and Migration);
• International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations, Sofia (Bulgaria), Professor Antonina Zhelyazkova (Muti-culturalism, Human Rights, Anthropology), Dr Maya Kosseva (Minorities, Anthropology), Dr. Iva Kyukrkchieva (Social Anthropology, Minorities);
• Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Dr Aykan Erdemir (Sociology, Social Anthropology), Dr Zana Citak (Religion and Politics, Islam in Europe), Dr Smita Tewari Jassal (Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies), Dr Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir (Religion and Cultural Policy);
• Universidad Complutense Madrid (Spain), Professor Javier Martínez-Torrón (Canon Law);
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands), Professors Tymen J. van der Ploeg (Civil Law) and Ben Vermeulen (Constitutional Law), Dr Adriaan Overbeeke (Law and Religion, Political Science);
• Universiteit van Amsterdam (Netherlands), Professor Veit Bader (Sociology, and Political Philosophy);
• Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Professor Louis-Léon Christians (Law and Religion).
Dedicated website : www.religareproject.eu
