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La società in cui viviamo in questa nostra epoca viene spesso definita come società della conoscenza o anche come società del rischio. Ma se all’ignoranza abbiamo sempre attribuito l’origine dei rischi e alla conoscenza la soluzione dei nostri problemi, come possiamo superare la contraddizione tra sovrabbondanza informativa e uso dannoso dell’informazione? Coniugando lavoro teorico e ricerca empirica, il volume intende rispondere a questo interrogativo esaminando il nesso che intercorre tra comunicazione e incertezza scientifica. Oggi più che mai, in piena infodemia, risulta essenziale non solo tematizzare la complessità specifica che ci ritroviamo a dover governare nella vita quotidiana, ma anche individuare modalità di analisi non banali, capaci cioè di scalfire quel dato per scontato che non funziona più, per progettare percorsi d’azione lucidamente realistici in uno scenario nuovo. Dai fenomeni meteorologici estremi all’innovazione biotecnologica basata sui virus, dalla regolamentazione degli OGM alla gestione dell’emergenza fitosanitaria del caso Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia, ciò che tiene insieme e consente un dialogo tra i diversi contributi è riassunto nel concetto multidimensionale di delega fiduciaria, a sua volta a fondamento di una evoluta democrazia rappresentativa. Essa, infatti, esprime il nesso di solidarietà tra individui, organizzazioni e istituzioni, che in una società funzionalmente differenziata non si dà mai in modo statico e definitivo, bensì risulta fortemente assoggettato a dinamiche che possono essere dissipative o costitutive di un nuovo assetto. Lo scoppio della pandemia Covid-19, che non ci ha ancora abbandonato, in quanto fatto sociale totale che non può avvalersi di esperti totali, non ha fornito solamente un ulteriore caso studio su cui riflettere, ma ha reso ancora più urgente l’elaborazione di un modello interpretativo delle dinamiche sociocomunicative che sostanziano quel concetto. L’utilità pragmatica del modello che qui presentiamo, sintesi preliminare e guida per ulteriori indagini volte a migliorarne la capacità euristica, è situabile nella sfera della gestione del rischio e nella sua comunicazione. Il lavoro del gruppo di ricerca rientra nelle attività del Centro interuniversitario MaCSIS (www.macsis.unimib.it/centro-macsis), costituito da Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca e Università degli Studi di Pavia, per la ricerca e sperimentazione nella comunicazione della scienza nella knowledge-society.

This dump provides access to the metadata records of publications, research data, software and projects that may be relevant to the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) fight. The dump contains records of the OpenAIRE COVID-19 Gateway (https://covid-19.openaire.eu/), identified via full-text mining and inference techniques applied to the OpenAIRE Research Graph (https://explore.openaire.eu/). The Graph is one of the largest Open Access collections of metadata records and links between publications, datasets, software, projects, funders, and organizations, aggregating 12,000+ scientific data sources world-wide, among which the Covid-19 data sources Zenodo COVID-19 Community, WHO (World Health Organization), BIP! FInder for COVID-19, Protein Data Bank, Dimensions, scienceOpen, and RSNA. The dump consists of a gzip file containing one json per line. Each json is compliant to the schema available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3974226

International audience; Avant de se propager à l’échelle mondiale, l’épidémie de coronavirus est apparue dans la province du Hubei. Pour contenir la propagation du virus, le gouvernement chinois a imposé des mesures de quarantaine, entraînant un ralentissement de l’activité économique. Nous étudions ici la manière dont ce ralentissement de la production, initialement limité à la province de Hubei, se diffuse à l’économie mondiale via les chaînes de valeur internationales. La dépendance à l’égard des intrants chinois a augmenté de manière spectaculaire depuis le début des années 2000. De ce fait, la plupart des pays sont exposés au ralentissement de l’activité en Chine, à la fois directement via leurs importations de produits intermédiaires chinois et indirectement, du fait de la valeur ajoutée chinoise incorporée à d’autres intrants à la production. Cette note quantifie l’exposition totale de la France comparée à celle d’autres pays. Dans un premier temps, nous calculons la part de la valeur ajoutée chinoise dans la production française. Ensuite, nous utilisons des données au niveau des pays et des secteurs pour quantifier l’impact des mesures de quarantaine sur le PIB français.

Purpose and scope of the deliverable: This is a framework report on Policies, Practices and Strategies. All partners have contributed material used in the production of the report which is described in the Work Programme as D2.1. This report seeks to establish a benchmark. With so much in flux, a starting point for identifying sig-nificant policy change is necessary. The benchmark is set at the outset of the project, approximately Q1 (January to March 2020), before the impact of COVID-19 and before the onset/impact of the new Programming Period. As a benchmark, the report seeks to be descriptive; there is no attempt at this stage to introduce any evaluation into the document; nor is there an intention to ’cluster’ case studies or countries – each case stands on its own merit. The attention to policy detail at Case Study level is relatively light. Here we are describing the Policy Framework. Detailed work on the Case Studies will take place later in the project when we have access to survey data and can view the emerging policies following the current hiatus in tourism. This is the first stage of the policy theme running through the three years of SPOT - the Social and Innovative Platform on Cultural Tourism and its Potential towards Deepening Europeanisation. This Framework Paper consists of four parts: Part One: The Executive Summary Part Two: The report on Policies, Practices and Strategies for each of the 15 partners (= Appendix A – Exploration of the Policy Framework) Part Three: A spreadsheet showing broad themes for each of the partners (= Appendix B) Part Four: A list of the sources used in preparing the report

We propose a standardized approach for performance assessment and quality-control of the novel VASCOVID system based on optical phantoms. This approach is tailored to meet the requirements of the Medical Device Regulation, and is extendable to other biophotonics devices.

Previous studies have examined the impact of COVID-19 on mortality and fertility. However, little is known about the effect of the pandemic on constraining international migration. We quantify the impact of COVID-19 on immigration flows in 15 high-income countries by forecasting their counterfactual levels in 2020 assuming no pandemic and comparing these estimates with observed immigration counts. We then explore potential driving forces, such as stringency measures and changes in unemployment moderating the extent of immigration decline. Our results show that immigration declined in all countries, except in Finland. Yet, significant cross-national variations exist. Australia (60%), Spain (45%) and Sweden (36%) display the largest declines, while immigration decreased by between 15% and 30% in seven states, and by less than 15% in four where results were not statistically significant. International travel, mobility restrictions and stay-at-home requirements exhibit a relationship with declines in immigration, although countries with similar levels of stringency witnessed different intensities of decline. Work and school closings and unemployment show no relationship

Blog post reflecting on Ireland’s National Marine Planning Framework through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic

A website containing information about surgical mask testing

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In response to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, governments worldwide have introduced multiple restriction policies, known as non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). However, there still remains uncertainty about the relative impact of such policies. In this work, we quantitatively assess the eectiveness of NPIs using a causal inference approach. We gather geospatial data to study the eect size of dierent NPIs as measured by change of the reproduction number and mobility trends. Our analysis includes the most frequent NPIs that were applied by 121 countries throughout 2020 until February 2021 as well as country-level information such as mobility and economic, demographic, environmental, social and health indicators. We present findings about the causal impact of five restriction policies - mask wearing, entertainment closure, freedom of movement (border closures), domestic flight restrictions and school closure - and discuss challenges in drawing causal inferences when aggregating multiple countries.