CIVICA alliance’s COVID-19 knowledge hub

This page is a curated list of resources around the current COVID-19 pandemic from across the CIVICA alliance.

The social sciences play a vital role in tackling the economic and societal challenges brought about by the novel coronavirus. In the CIVICA alliance, experts and communities from eight European higher education institutions in the social sciences work collaboratively across disciplines and borders to produce valuable knowledge and action in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The research outputs, expert insights, media features and examples of community involvement collected on this page promote a deeper understanding of the impacts of the pandemic, encourage an open dialogue at all levels of society, and support policymakers in crafting evidence-based responses.

The materials are organized in the following categories:

Expert commentary
Collaborative research
Community engagement

Please check this page for events related to COVID-19.

Bocconi University

• Article: No Compliance with COVID Measures Without Trust in Health Authorities

• Article: A Tool to Evaluate Public Perception of Countries' Response to the Pandemic

• Article: We'd Better Listen to Cassandra Also in Times of COVID

• Article: The Young Perceive Higher COVID Risk than the Old. And Are More Cautious

• Article: Warning: Epidemics Are Often Followed by Unrest

• Article: Costs and Benefits of Social Distancing, Italy and UK Compared

• Article: The Trade off Between Health Measures and Liberal Norms

• Article: How to Strike the Right Balance Between Health and the Economy

• Article: Working from Home Is for the Most Skilled

• Article: Statistics Shows That Early Lockdown Measures Are Our Best Weapons Against COVID

• Article: Why Equity Markets Go Up (Yes, Up) When There is an Official COVID Announcement

• Article: COVID-19 Changes the Way We Think of Food Safety

• Article: Relations Between Generations Turned into a Risk

• Article: Why People Comply, or not, with Social Distancing Rules

• Article: Artificial Intelligence for the Days After COVID-19

• Opinion: Watershed on Three Levels

Central European University

• Hub: CEU's COVID-19 Expert Commentary and Research in Fall 2020

• Hub: CEU's COVID-19 Expert Commentary and Research in June-July

• Hub: Update on COVID-19 Expert Commentary and Research

• Hub: Expert Commentary and COVID-19-Related Research

• Recorded lecture: Research in the Time of COVID

• Recorded lecture: Can the Pandemic be Stopped?

• Study: Social Science Research to Combat COVID-19-Related Economic Fall-Out

European University Institute

• Article: Halting COVID-19 by Targeting High-Contact Individuals

• Article: New Research on COVID-19 Risks for the Elderly

• Hub: COVID-19 Knowledge Hub 

• Policy brief: The EU Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Achieving Relevance, Mobilising Solidarity and Preparing for the Future

• Study: New Research on COVID-19 Risks for the Elderly

• Study: COVID-19, Gender and Access to Human Rights

• Study: Corona Solidarity

• Video: Women's Europe: Voices in Times of COVID

Hertie School

• Article: Study: Most Young Germans Behave Responsibly During COVID-19; 72% Take Hygiene Rules Seriously.

• Article: Click to join your class

• Hub: The Coronavirus Pandemic

• Hub: Global Tables on Policy Responses to COVID-19

• Media feature: Study shows Fathers More Actively Involved in Childcare During Pandemic

• Media feature: Will the Coronavirus Tear Europe Apart?

• Opinion: COVID-19 Can Provide Lessons to Reinvigorate International Cooperation

• Opinion: We All Die Alone

• Podcast: Fundamental rights during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

• Podcast: COVID-19 and the German Constitution

• Policy briefs: G20 Insights: Policy Responses to COVID-19

National University of Political Studies and Public Administration

• Study: Suspicious minds in times of crisis: determinants of Romanians’ beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories

• Opinion: “The professor is the architect of the education process, the one who helps the student to progress, even in conditions of social isolation” 

Sciences Po

• Article: Pricing Lives in the Time of COVID-19

• Article: COVID-19 and Climate Change: What the Pandemic Means for Climate

• Article: The Urgency of the Crisis and a Time to Reflect Together

• Article: Virus, Memes and Protocol in the Competition for Propagation

• Hub: The World in the Face of COVID-19: Research analysis and surveys

• Interview: Basic Relationships Between Epidemic, Economy, and Inequalities

• Opinion: “To Kill the Virus, We Have to Kill the Economy”

• Video: World Energy Outlook 2020 Indicates Implications of COVID-19 on the Energy Sector

Stockholm School of Economics

• Article: Explaining the Homogeneous Diffusion of COVID-19 Nonpharmaceutical Interventions Across Heterogeneous Countries

• Article: Rejection and Dehumanization When Store Employees Break Social Norms During Corona

• Article: Those Most Negatively Impacted by COVID-19

• Article: Long-term Unemployment on Its Rise – A Blow to the Swedish Economy?

• Article: Leadership in Times of Corona

• Article: Corporate Debt Burdens Threaten Economic Recovery after COVID-19

• Article: Doing the Right Thing – Why It's Harder for Some

• Article: How Corona is Changing the Retail Industry

• Article: Nudging out the Coronavirus with Behavioral Economics

• Article: The Shock Effects of the Pandemic and the Authoritarian Threat

• Article: New Research Reveals How Swedes React to Government Guidelines

• Article: Influencers Important in Corona Communications

• Policy brief: Russia Economic Update — Brace for the COVID-19 Impact

• Recorded lecture: Domestic Violence – The Case of Sweden During the Pandemic

• Resource: Organizing Virtual Academic Meetings in the Wake of COVID-19

• Study: Hybrid Solution Did Not Affect SSE Students’ Grades, Research Shows

• Study: The Risk for a New COVID-19 Wave

The London School of Economics and Political Science 

• Article: What is the True Cost of the Coronavirus Lockdown?

• Article: Paying Innovators is the Way Out of Lockdown

• Article: Women Peace and Security in the Time of Corona

• Hub: Shaping the Post-COVID World

• Hub: LSE COVID-19 Blog

• Hub: COVID-19 Resource Centre

• Report: COVID-19 Recession is Having a Disproportionate Impact on the Most Vulnerable

Bocconi University

• COVIDCRISISLAB - Laboratory for Coronavirus Crisis Research

Central European University

• CEU iLab to run online incubation program with EuvsVirus Hackathon winners

European University Institute

• COVID-19 Research Conduit - Researchers collaborating for the endgame of the pandemic
• COVID-19 Research Projects

Hertie School

• SEFORÏS: How social enterprises in Germany tackled the COVID-19 crisis

• Hertie School's Centre for Digital Governance and Boston Consulting Group conduct first public sector executive survey on the impact of COVID-19

• Hertie School and Leuphana University Lüneburg to study collaborative hackathon #WirVsVirus endorsed by German Chancellery

Sciences Po

• COVID-19 from a Social Science Perspective
• Citizens’ Attitudes Under the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Faire face au Covid-19. Distanciation sociale, cohésion et inégalités dans la France de 2020

Stockholm School of Economics

• House of Innovation joins new European COVID-19 research project
• Sweden Through The Crisis
• SSE Corona Economic Research Network
• Leadership in Times of COVID-19
• COVID-19 | FREE Network project

The London School of Economics and Political Science

• COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund
• LSE joins £10m challenge to protect against future pandemics

Bocconi University

• The Bocconi community fighting Covid-19 in the Lombardy Region and the Municipality of Milan
• Bocconi alumni working behind the scenes during the emergency
• Bocconi faculty on Women for the Recovery task force

Central European University

• Community Powered: Volunteering During COVID-19
• COVID-19 Student Task Force
• CEU offers free, online educational and cultural programs

National University of Political Studies and Public Administration

• SNSPA provides free access to books published by SNSPA professors
• SNSPA students join youth cyber meeting on facing the crisis 

Sciences Po

• Sciences Po students volunteer aid during the crisis
• Sciences Po students get involved in hackathon against the global pandemic

Stockholm School of Economics

• SSE students help risk groups during Corona crisis
• SSE students produce "Leadership in a Crisis" podcast series
• SSE joins public & private initiative to tackle the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

The London School of Economics and Political Science 

• LSE students and alumni develop app to help with social distancing

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