The COVID-19 pandemic has been an imminent, continuous, and unprecedented healthcare challenge, which expanded in a disproportional rate worldwide. The governmental structures attempting to mitigate the socio-economic and health challenges which emerged first utilised and implemented pre-existing and contemporary policies, but later adopted practices which...
Exposing housing inequalities The pandemic has brought to light the inequalities that exist in housing. Migrants living in Antwerp, Belgium, were interviewed about their living conditions, and it was found that those who had access to green spaces and gardens felt more comfortable during the pandemic. Meanwhile,...
In 2008, Rebecca Solnit wrote an essay called Men Explain Things to Me, and an anonymous responder coined the term “mansplaining”. In a recent article in The Guardian, Solnit comes back to the issue, warning that the absurdity of the phenomenon tends to hide serious...
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. In May 2020, as Europe was coming out of the initial shock and acknowledging the impact of the new situation, the European Commission launched a funding call for research projects investigating the behavioural,...
The realisation that a year has passed since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in Europe prompted many to think about the shortcomings of pandemic management by European governments. Projects such as COVINFORM are a part of the European Commission initiative to ensure that the...
The COVINFORM project kicked off with a two-day virtual meeting on 5 and 11 November 2020. Bringing together 16 partners from 11 countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and the UK) in a highly ambitious research and innovation project,...
