The ARM Project
The ARM Project is a 38-month Horizon Europe-funded project that started in January 2024, and will finish in February 2027. The project is broken down into eight work packages with four case studies and 13 public deliverables.
The project will deliver academic papers, field blogs and policy briefs, together with a catalogue of the tactics, techniques and procedures used to carry out FIMI and a toolkit of practical countermeasures. The eight work packages will all collaborate to deliver the project’s goal of effective research for increased information freedom.
Coordinated by the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), the ARM project delves into authoritarian strategies for information control beyond borders. While foreign disinformation receives ample scrutiny, other forms of foreign information manipulation and intervention (FIMI) remain overlooked.
Analysing Russia, China, Ethiopia, and Rwanda, ARM conceptualises and addresses different forms of FIMI. The project will explore the extent that major global players like China and Russia, alongside Ethiopia and Rwanda, engage in transnational information suppression, particularly targeting European diaspora communities.
