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The MIDA project is to train 15 creative, entrepreneurial, and innovative researchers in social and human sciences through an interdisciplinary research programme, whose main objectives are to understand the tremendous influence that digitisation and technological innovations have on Islam.
ITN MIDA - Mediating Islam in the Digital Age
Entailing breakthrough developments in many different disciplines, the MIDA project is interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral and, naturally, international, with regard to not only the participants involved (6 countries), but also the origin of the future Early Stage Researchers, and the issues dealt with.
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Understanding how a religion appears or transmutes is one of the ultimate challenges in history. MIDA project’s hypothesis is that we are witnessing a radical change in Islam.
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1. HOW DOES DIGITISATION SHAPE ISLAM?
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2. HOW DOES DIGITISATION & TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION MODIFY THE WAY MUSLIMS RELATE TO THEIR PAST?
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3. HOW DOES DIGITISATION MODIFY AND REORGANISE SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH ON ISLAM?
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The MIDA project is to develop a lasting interdisciplinary network of European researchers to address critical, social and political issues. The implications of digitisation for Islam as religious practice and as a field of study are diverse, complex, and gender-related.
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The network involves 25 Interacting Participants from academic units, non-academic Small and Medium Enterprises and Non-Governmental Organisation from Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain.
This project has received the European union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement N°813547.