Descripción del proyecto
Recuperarse y reconstruirse mejor tras la pandemia de COVID-19
La resiliencia es una habilidad fundamental para los materiales. En los últimos dos años, se ha convertido en algo más que eso y ahora tiene un significado trascendental en la política y la vida cotidiana. La resiliencia consiste en recuperarse después de una crisis. La pandemia de COVID-19 obligó a la Unión Europea (UE) a examinar sus capacidades al respecto. A fin de abordar este reto, el proyecto ROBUST, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende poner en marcha un cambio de paradigma para pasar de la «resiliencia» a la «robustez», el cual consiste en reconstruirse mejor como principio central de la futura gobernanza de las crisis. El equipo del proyecto analizará las respuestas de las instituciones de la UE y de 8 países europeos ante las crisis financiera, de refugiados y de la COVID-19 para detectar las mejores prácticas. El conjunto de datos del proyecto ROBUST identificará factores clave para lograr la robustez en la gobernanza de las crisis.
Objetivo
The focus of European post-pandemic politics is currently on enhancing system capacities for ‘bouncing back’ from crisis to normalcy. These efforts draw on resilience research, which has become the dominant paradigm in crisis management. However, there are broad governance challenges that the resilience approach fails to consider. Centrally, how can European societies harness flexible adaptation and proactive innovation to deliver effective crisis responses in situations, where going back to the way things were is neither possible nor desirable? And how can democratic institutions uphold core values such as democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights in the face of crisis-induced turbulence?
To address these challenges, the ROBUST project aims to set in motion a paradigm shift from ‘resilience’ (‘bouncing back’) to ‘robustness’ (‘building back better’) as the central principle of future crisis governance. The project breaks new ground by operationalizing the concept of robust crisis governance and investigating such responses empirically. We combine historical and comparative analysis at EU, national and local levels to gather a multi-dimensional data set out of which we identify the configurations of factors that drive (or block) robustness in crisis governance. The project studies responses by EU institutions and eight European countries to three recent crises (the financial, refugee and COVID-19 crises) to understand general patterns in system-level crises response, while we also conduct in-depth studies of localized COVID-19 responses ‘on the streets’ of 16 European localities to understand how EU, national and local crisis responses interact and are experienced by citizens.
On this basis, the project delivers the elements of a new mindset along with policy recommendations for enabling the robust crisis governance of the future, all anchored in a learning hub that will serve as the social engine of the paradigm shift envisioned by the project.
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