COVIDEU - Project funded by a Challenges for Europe grant of the Volkswagen Stiftung (EUR1.5 million)
6 July 2021
People compare national and EU responses and take cues from domestic governments, political parties and the media when forming opinions about the EU. The project COVIDEU will study the impact of the pandemic on these opinions through six work packages that are clustered around three main questions:
To answer these questions, an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars from political science, sociology and economics will use an original multi-method approach combining survey, observational and geocoded data with natural, survey and field experiments as well as innovative natural language processing technologies.
The team will hire three postdoctoral researchers and two PhD students, one of which will be based at the University of Amsterdam.
Heike Kluever (Humboldt University Berlin), Sara Hobolt (London School of Economics), Theresa Kuhn (University of Amsterdam), Toni Rodon (Pompeu Fabra University) and Michal Krawczyk (University of Warsaw)