14 projects have been selected by the NORFACE network under the Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age programme. Among them, The Rural-Urban Divide in Europe (RUDE) will be led by Sciences Po Grenoble-Pacte and piloted by Sonja Zmerli, in collaboration with Frédéric Gonthier and a postdoctoral fellow. This 3-year comparative project (Germany, Spain, France, United Kingdom and Switzerland) will start in January 2021 and will study the regional dimensions of the (crisis of) political legitimacy of European democracies.