TERA Institute | 20 followers on LinkedIn. TERA is a digital first institute augmenting existing academic frameworks for a global network of researchers | Over the past years, perceptions and measurements of risk scenarios increasingly became to play a central role in policies, media articles and in people’s everyday lives. Whether it concerns the possible impact of diseases, technology, political or environmental affects, speculations about the future determine people’s emotions and decide on measurements to avoid the perils that will come. Risk Society investigates local and global cultures of risks through the lens of contemporary events.