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 distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across the globe is far from fair. High-income countries currently hold a confirmed 4.6 billion doses of vaccines, compared to 1.5 billion doses by middle-income countries and 1.3 billion doses by lower-income countries. This lack of vaccine equity in the...
The first known case of COVID-19 in Romania was confirmed in Gorj County, on February 26, 2020. On March 12, the Romanian Ombudsman asked President Klaus Iohannis to declare the state of emergency and the Romanian Parliament to approve it. A year later, on February...
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Gender matters in research, however, both in terms of considering it as a topic and in female representation in science. This has been discussed in a long history of...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a variety of biological, social and economic impacts. However, it is not impacting everyone equally. Today, on International Women’s Day, we want to shed light on the concept of gender and the experiences of women during disasters such as the...
We are currently living through a pandemic that feels unprecedented and unique in its nature. However, it is not. It is neither something unique nor unusual, as pandemics have occurred throughout human history. And so did the well-known measures applied worldwide - wearing face masks,...
On 22 January 2021, COVINFORM partners attended a meeting for projects funded under the European Commission (EC) call for innovative solutions to tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, those addressing behavioural, social and economic impacts of the outbreak response. The call was a part...
The mass scale roll-out of vaccination programs across Europe brought us a glimmer of hope that the end of the pandemic might be in sight. However, with hope came new challenges. By the end of January, COVINFORM will publish the first bi-monthly report combining information...
Since its emergence in 2019, COVID-19 has become a topic of daily conversation due to its wide-scale impact on all areas of our lives. Much of the language around the coronavirus is anchored around the word ‘risk’. Medical and Governmental authorities have provided us with copious...
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,...
