Project description
Revealing the true impacts of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that effective assessment and response requires diverse data from various disciplines. Evaluating the true impact of the outbreak requires data and statistical analysis that are not always readily available. The EU-funded PERISCOPE project aims to conduct in-depth multidisciplinary research to evaluate and better inform Europe’s response to the pandemic. It does so by assessing the outbreak’s impact while taking policy measures as well as epidemiological, health, socioeconomic impacts into account. The main goal of the project is to uncover the real impact of the pandemic by providing a wealth of data and statistical information, promoting evidence-based policymaking while informing effective outbreak response.
Objective
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been deep and wide. In spite of unprecedented efforts to understand the COVID-19 disease and its causative virus SARS-CoV-2, months after the emergence of the first local case in Europe (San Matteo hospital, Pavia, 21st February 2020) significant knowledge gaps persist. While social and natural scientists managed to develop new research and shed light on the dynamics of the outbreak and the most effective possible containment measures, governments have been increasingly faced with the need to adopt urgent decisions.
Against this background, PERISCOPE plans to contribute to a dramatically deeper understanding of the dynamics of the outbreak, by means of an intense multi-disciplinary research, both theoretical and experimental, and the consideration of different viewpoints: clinic and epidemiologic; humanistic and psychologic; socio-economic and political; statistical and technological.
The overarching objectives of PERISCOPE are to map and analyse the unintended impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak; develop solutions and guidance for policymakers and health authorities on how to mitigate the impact of the outbreak; enhance Europe’s preparedness for future similar events; and reflect on the future multi-level governance in the health as well as other domains affected by the outbreak. In pursuing this objective, PERISCOPE sheds new light on the unintended and indirect consequences of the outbreak and the related government responses, with the intention to preserve evidence-based policymaking by collecting an unprecedented amount of data and information on the social, economic and behavioural consequences of the current pandemic. At the same time, PERISCOPE will produce new information on the conditions that led to the impact of the pandemic, the differences in “policy mix” adopted at the national level in EU and associated countries, and the behavioural impacts of both the outbreak and the policies adopted.
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H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020-2
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H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020-2-RTD
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
27100 Pavia
Italy
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Participants (31)
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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4150 356 Porto
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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60323 Frankfurt Am Main
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2628 CN Delft
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20133 Milano
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WC2A 2AE London
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38122 Trento
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28040 Madrid
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75012 Paris
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27100 Pavia
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10126 Torino
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80333 Muenchen
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1050 Ixelles
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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08005 Barcelona
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11000 Beograd
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34149 Trieste
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
20122 Milano Mi
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
BRUSSELS Brussels / Bruxelles
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35043 Rennes Cedex
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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250 67 Klecany
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00-732 Warszawa
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17177 Stockholm
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SE11383 Stockholm
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6900 Lugano
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9000 Gent
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75654 Paris
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1080 Wien
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030304 Bucuresti
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