Description du projet
Savoir rebondir pour mieux reconstruire après la pandémie de COVID-19
La résilience est une caractéristique essentielle pour les matériaux. Au cours des deux dernières années, elle a pris une autre dimension et possède désormais une signification transcendante dans la politique et la vie quotidienne. La résilience consiste à savoir rebondir après une crise. La pandémie de COVID-19 a forcé l’UE à faire le point sur ses capacités en la matière. Pour relever ce défi, le projet ROBUST, financé par l’UE, entend amorcer un changement de paradigme en passant de la «résilience» à la «robustesse», qui consiste à mieux rebondir, en tant que principe central de la future gouvernance de crise. Le projet analysera les réponses apportées par les institutions de l’UE et de huit pays européens à la crise financière, à la question des réfugiés et à la pandémie de COVID-19, en vue d’identifier les meilleures pratiques. L’ensemble de données ROBUST permettra d’identifier les facteurs clés de la robustesse dans la gouvernance de crise.
Objectif
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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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
4000 Roskilde
Danemark