The Centre aims to strengthen social resilience by building a solid foundation that supports the society’s unity, cohesion, and long-term stability.
The Centre’s role in promoting social resilience goes beyond simply defending against disinformation; it aims to create a sustainable structure that advocates unity, trust, and the ability of citizens to adapt and thrive in a safe information environment. Social resilience is about building a society capable of understanding and navigating the information space, recognising shared values, and actively contributing to national stability.
In this regard, besides informing, the Centre encourages the active involvement of citizens in defending national interests. By promoting open communication, dialogue and support for civic initiatives, it urges citizens to become partners in creating a safe and transparent public space.
The Centre aims to make every citizen feel part of a collective effort, aware of the impact of their own voice and actions.
The institution’s actions and methods are intended to create a robust information ecosystem, in which citizens have the tools and knowledge necessary to understand, discern and react to information challenges.
The Centre contributes to the development of social resilience through:
1. Space monitoring and analysis
Identifying malicious narratives and digital infrastructure allows for proactive and proportionate intervention to counter disinformation campaigns. This line of work reflects the public debate on topics of national interest and provides support in anticipating and mitigating the effect of malicious information efforts.
2. Education for democracy and promotion of critical thinking
Through educational programs and awareness campaigns, citizens are taught to identify and critically evaluate information sources. Thus, everyone becomes able to recognise and reject manipulation attempts, which leads to the formation of a well-informed society, resilient to malign external influences and familiar with democratic principles.
3. Cooperation with the media, civil society and academia
Strategic partnerships and multidimensional and intersectoral cooperation boost the national effort to protect democratic values and information resilience. Acting as a unitary formation, the Centre and its partners support and amplify voices that promote the truth and legitimate interests of the nation.
4. Training of civil servants
Through this training, civil servants become effective and credible communicators of public institutions and contribute to the efficiency of state policies. This communication capacity plays a part in strengthening public confidence in state institutions and fostering coherent communication on issues of national importance, which reduces vulnerability to disinformation and manipulation.
5. Communication and awareness campaigns
Through campaigns that consistently further national values, the European path and social cohesion, the Centre establishes a strong counter-narrative, built on truth and transparency. This continuity in conveying clear and positive messages leads to forging collective solidarity and maintaining a climate of trust and respect.
6. Improving public policies
By analysing the systemic factors that add to and fuel foreign interference, the Centre formulates sectoral policy recommendations aiming to eliminate or mitigate the impact of such factors, thereby strengthening institutional resilience. Providing strategic guidance, the Centre supports the achievement of national security objectives.
