Since November 1st Prof. Marco Brambilla, associate professor at DEIB, and his team have been participating in the PERISCOPE European project.
PERISCOPE will investigate the broad socio-economic and behavioral impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, to make Europe more resilient and prepared for future large-scale risks.
The European Commission approved PERISCOPE (Pan-European Response To The Impacts Of Covid-19 And Future Pandemics And Epidemics), a large-scale research project that brings together 32 European institutions and is coordinated by the University of Pavia. PERISCOPE is a Horizon 2020 research project that was funded with almost 10 million Euros under the Coronavirus Global Response initiative launched in May 2020 by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The goal of PERISCOPE is to shed light into the broad socio-economic and behavioral impacts of COVID-19. A multidisciplinary consortium will bring together experts in all aspects of the current outbreak: clinic and epidemiologic; socio-economic and political; statistical and technological.
The partners of the consortium will carry out theoretical and experimental research to contribute to a deeper understanding of the short- and long-term impacts of the pandemic and the measures adopted to contain it. Such research-intensive activities will allow the consortium to propose measures to prepare Europe for future pandemics and epidemics in a relatively short timeline.
For further information: http://datascience.deib.polimi.it/periscope-the-eu-project-on-socio-economic-and-behavioral-impacts-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/