Five projects involving Polish research teams were awarded grants in an international Call on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social life organised by the Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (T-AP)
The Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities operates as a self-funded cooperation network for humanities and social science research funders from Europe and the Americas.
Announced in July 2021, the call entitled Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World (RRR Call 2021) is co-funded by 16 agencies from 12 countries from both sides of the Atlantic. Research proposals submitted in this Call addressed the following challenges:
- reducing inequalities and vulnerabilities;
- building a more resilient, inclusive and sustainable society;
- fostering democratic governance and political participation;
- advancing responsible and inclusive digital innovation;
- ensuring effective and accurate communication and media.
The Call attracted huge interest from the research community. 19 out of a total of 315 international projects submitted under the call were awarded funding. These included 5 Polish projects, which received more than 2.85 million zlotys from the NCN.
The successful projects:
- PANCOPOP: Pandemic Communication in Times of Populism: Building Resilient Media and Ensuring Effective Pandemic Communication in Divided Societies
Polish team led by Dr. hab. Beata Klimkiewicz from the Jagiellonian University, in cooperation with partners from Brazil, the UK and the USA, will carry out a research project on political communication and public health. The researchers will conduct the first comprehensive, comparative study of health crisis communication in the context of populist politics.
- ENDURE: Inequalities, Community Resilience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World
Historically, crises – both natural and man-made – have exacerbated problems, but have also been one of the main drivers of mobilisation and societal transformation. Together with his Polish team, Dr. Mateusz Karolak from the University of Wrocław will examine the phenomena of social resilience and resistance in a post-pandemic world. The research will be carried out in cooperation with partners from Brazil, Croatia, Finland, Canada, Colombia, Germany, the UK and the USA.
- ERAC-DP: Exploring the Role of Adaptive Capacity on Democratic Performance. Governmental and Non-profit Organizations in the Pandemic
The research of the Polish team led by Dr. Piotr Modzelewski from the University of Warsaw, will focus on two areas: reducing inequalities and vulnerabilities and fostering democratic governance and political participation. The research project will involve partners from Canada, the UK and the USA.
- CRRSE: The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19
Polish researchers led by of Dr. hab. Sławomir Mandes from the University of Warsaw will examine how various religions contribute to building more resilient, inclusive and sustainable societies, and study the changing role of majority and minority religions in the “global north”, i.e. Canada, Germany, Ireland/Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) and Poland, in the context of a growing interest in spirituality observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will be carried out in cooperation with partners from Canada, Germany and the UK.
- GENMIGRA: Gender, Mobilities and Migration during and post COVID-19 Pandemic – Vulnerability, Resilience and Renewal
Polish team led by Prof. Krystyna Slany from the Jagiellonian University, in cooperation with partners from Brazil, Germany and the UK, aims to broaden our knowledge on the phenomenon of marginalisation experienced by female migrants and their coping strategies. Researchers will explore how migrant women have faced those challenges and produced movements of resistance and renewal. The project is transnational, comparative and cross-sectional.