This week, some members of our COVIDEU Project are flying out to Hanover for the VolkswagenStiftung symposium, where different teams will come together to discuss Potential Challenges for Europe. There, Theresa Kuhn, will present key findings from our group on Thursday, accompanied by Lisa, Asli and Đorđe as representatives of the COVIDEU team.
We headed out for the XIV edition of the European Political Science Association Conference, which this year was held in the beautiful German town of Cologne.
On the left, a picture from the reception of the conference, at the Cologne Botanical Garden. On the right, Zach Dickson, former post-doctoral researcher in the Project, presenting his research at the conference.
Irene Rodríguez, one of our Junior team members from Barcelona, presented a new paper from the COVIDEU project, which revolves around the effects of civic education programmes may affect attitudes towards the EU and climate change.
Lisa Herbig, COVIDEU junior member of our Amsterdam team, also presented her research on government justifications of border closures in Germany.
For this III COVIDEU Workshop, our team held a two-day long hybrid meeting to share our updates on each Working Package with the rest of the members. The Barcelona team travelled to London, while the Warsaw, Amsterdam and Berlin teams joined the discussion online from their own campuses.
After fruitful meetings, which allowed the team to reflect and advance on the several strands of research going on, the workshop concluded with a consensus on our next location for the IV and last COVIDEU Project Workshop: Berlin!
In cooperation with the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, our Amsterdam team organised the Discourse in the Data PhD Workshop.
In an era of frequent crises in Europe, effective political communication is essential. Political leaders must master crisis communication to inform and lead their constituents. The "Discourse in the Data" workshop, which was designed for early career researchers, focused on quantitative and qualitative text analysis in European political communication. It explored how to apply these methods across different sources for better understanding political discourse at the national and EU levels.
During the Conference, our team members had the opportunity to present our research on border closure effects on EU identity, the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out effects on EU attitudes, as well as several other papers that contribute to our knowledge of what shapes and shifts attitudes towards the European Union.
Stay tuned to see how our investigations develop!
Our team members are excited to be heading west to the MPSA conference, that will be taking place in Chicago on April 2023.
The COVIDEU Project has submitted a panel to present our ongoing research and papers, which has already been accepted by the organisation.
The papers that will be presented and discussed from April 13th to April 16th will be the following:
The political effects of leader communication during crises: Evidence from a natural experiment.
Contributing authors: Dr. Heike Klüver, Dr. Asli Unan, Dr. Sara Hobolt and Dr. Toni Rodon.
Misinformation, Cue-taking and Euroscepticism
Contributing authors: Dr. Heike Klüver, Dr. Sara Hobolt, Dr. Zach Dickson, Dr. Asli Unan, Dr. Theresa Kuhn and Dr. Michal Krawczyk.
Hustle and tussle: How the UK's vaccine rollout impacted EU attitudes in EU countries
Contributing authors: Irene Rodríguez, Lisa Herbig, Dr. Toni Rodon, Dr. Heike Klüver, Dr. Asli Unan, Dr. Michal Krawczyk and Dr. Theresa Kuhn.
Parasocial exposure to successful immigrants and attitudes towards immigration
Author: Dr. Asli Unan.
Cross-border mobility and EU support
Contributing authors: Lisa Herbig, Dr. Theresa Kuhn, Dr. Heike Klüver, Dr. Asli Unan, Irene Rodríguez and Dr. Toni Rodon
This time, the team has headed out to Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where our Barcelona team is based, for our II COVIDEU Project Workshop.
At the Ciutadella campus, the Barcelona team held the welcome session, after which each PI of every work package presented an update of each team's research. After this, junior team members had the opportunity to present their own research projects, and the workshop concluded with a farewell lunch in which we decided on the location for our next annual workshop: London!
Mark Rutte deed het met Sven Kockelmann en Olaf Scholz met Ursula von der Leyen. En Emmanuel Macron? Die besloot de oorlog en crises in Europa live op televisie uit te leggen als Dr. Clavan himself, inclusief wereldkaart. Is dat hoe je als leider anno 2022 een crisis uitlegt?
Over leiderschap in crisistijd praten we met Femke van Esch, hoogleraar European Governance en leiderschap van de EU aan het Departement Bestuurs- en Organisatiewetenschap (USBO) van de Universiteit Utrecht. En met Theresa Kuhn, hoogleraar Europese Studies aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Met speciale aandacht ook voor Alexander de Croo, Andrzej Duda, Sebastian Kurz / Karl Nehammer en...Jimmy Carter.
The wonderful city of Amsterdam was the venue of our first annual COVIDEU Workshop. During the two days of the workshop, our five teams (Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Warsaw) worked together to discuss and present our work so far, next steps, as well as providing a space for our Junior Team to present their ongoing work.
After the welcome session by our Amsterdam team, every PI presented the state of their Work Package, the advances made so far, papers in progress and future necessary steps to take. The first day was dedicated to discussing pillars 1 and 2, policy responses and political actors, after which the team went out to dinner and drinks to enjoy Amsterdam's atmosphere. The second day was devoted to discuss pillar 3, the media. Finally, each of our junior team members Asli, Lisa and Irene, presented their own research and received mindful feedback from our senior members.
We also used the time together to decide the location for our next annual workshop: Barcelona!
Infodemia, due to the ever-increasing number of fake news stories spreading across the web with incredible speed, continues to flourish. The increasing amount of fake news in turn affects public sentiment. Can this impact be measured?
Whether the pandemic and infodemic have influenced our moods and opinions on vaccines and the European Union, and whether it is possible to study this at all is discussed by Prof. Michał Krawczyk from the Faculty of Economics Studies of the University of Warsaw, talking about an international research project funded by VolkswagenStiftung, and on the occasion of Dr. Justyna Pokojska’s questions about:
the source of the idea for the mood survey,
the reasons why it is important to study this issue,
countries which, apart from Poland, are taking part in the project,
the influence of the media in creating our sentiments on key issues,
investigating fake news related to the European Union,
the assumptions behind the field experiments envisaged in the project,
potential study participants,
predictions about its outcome.
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