The research project aims to analyze the experiences of Cluj civil society during the COVID-19 pandemic, its mobilization, and the type of support received and offered to third parties. The research is implemented in partnership with the Association for Community Relations (ARC) and is commissioned by the Urban Innovation Division...
COVID-19 has disrupted the way we carry out our activities to an unprecedented level. States of emergency and lockdown impact directly the activity of community spaces that exist to empower local communities. These community spaces are the kind of physical infrastructure that is central for any network as it provides...
The unprecedented lockdown of the entire world is causing damage to the global economy and is also transforming migration and mobility patterns. The project focuses on COVID-19’s impact on migration and mobility and builds on the experience of three previous BAN events that had a migration-related subject. The previous events...
We are at a point where humanity has been taken by surprise by a global pandemic and the need for adaptation is more stringent then before. The consequences are visible at both an individual and a societal level, exposing the impact of a health-related crisis that is triggering an economic...
The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus produce conditions that cannot otherwise be created, offering researchers an opportunity to develop procedural approximations to true experiments (Fagan, 1990). The differential lockdown of various cities in Romania allows us to observe and measure differences in the naturally occurring conditions (i.e. “the intervention”)...
Local producers have been significantly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic given the lock-down and mobility limitations. This project aims to analyze the way local producers have adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic context and whether they have migrated online for selling their products. Irina Toma, M.A.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought a significant impact on how educational activities are conducted. The closure of schools in most countries in the world affected most students and, in particular, those most vulnerable. This situation has been pushing schools, universities, and educational systems more generally to embrace digitalization and to re-think...
We are witnessing a global resurgence of authoritarianism. Amid crisis, such tendencies increase. Closer to home, the broader Central and Eastern European region is slowly moving away from the post-1989 trend of democracy consolidation. A strong counter-reaction to the democratization efforts of the last three decades can be identified in...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted in 2015 and by 2020 they became the global agenda for joint action to improve development. The COVID-19 pandemic arrived at a time when the SDGs were getting traction and while it puts pressure on meeting many of the assumed targets, the Pandemic...
A global pandemic with significant impact on everyone’s lives is a new experience for the 21st Century. This experience provides the opportunity for states, public institutions, political leaders, the private sector, media, and civil society to react and demonstrate resilience. Given the context of a general crisis, all sectors act...