Project description
Understanding the impact of health crises on education
Health crises, natural disasters, and violent conflicts threaten children’s education across the world. Because such disruptive events tend to obstruct data collection, understanding their impact on children’s educational development is challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic and the extensive data collection it prompted provide a unique opportunity to study the consequences of major health crises for children’s education. The ERC-funded LEARN project uses high-quality, cross-national data, and advanced analytical techniques to trace how the pandemic affected children’s educational development and early-life trajectories in different world regions. Additionally, it will map the factors that amplify or alleviate these effects, track children’s recovery from COVID-19 learning deficits, and identify the most effective interventions to support children in recovering learning lost during large disruptive events.
Objective
Health crises, natural disasters, and violent conflicts pose global threats to children’s educational development. The frequency and severity of such disruptive events is intensifying due to climate change and the growing instability of the global security architecture. Yet, we lack a systematic understanding of how major disruptive events affect children’s educational development, largely because such events tend to also disrupt the collection of high-quality data on children’s education.
Due to the global scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and extensive data collection efforts as it unfolded, the COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to advance our understanding of the consequences of major health crises for children’s educational development. LEARN will leverage this opportunity to reveal the principal pathways through which the pandemic has affected the educational development of children in different world regions, as well as the key factors that reduce or exacerbate its adverse consequences.
LEARN will generate and apply high-quality, cross-national data and advanced quantitative and meta-analytical techniques to achieve five core objectives:
(1) Trace children’s recovery of COVID-19 learning deficits using a living meta-dataset and online tracker
(2) Assess COVID-19 effects on children’s early-life trajectories
(3) Map the processes through which the pandemic affected children’s educational development
(4) Reveal the factors that reduce or exacerbate COVID-19 effects
(5) Identify the most effective remedial education interventions to promote children’s learning recovery
This ambitious and innovative research programme will substantially advance our understanding of how major health crises affect children’s educational development, generate several new data resources, and provide a basis for policy makers to future-proof education systems to meet the growing threats posed by major disruptive events.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
This project's classification has been validated by the project's team.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
This project's classification has been validated by the project's team.
- social sciences political sciences political policies public policies
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health epidemiology pandemics
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities
- social sciences sociology governance crisis management
- social sciences educational sciences inclusive education
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC Grants
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) ERC-2024-STG
See all projects funded under this callHost institution
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
75341 PARIS CEDEX 07
France
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.