Covid-19

Covid-19 News

Press review

Articles on Covid-19:

Video: "Coping with the Covid-19 Crisis," Joint Academy Day 2021 (Astrid Mager)
"Die TA im Home Office“ (Michael Nentwich, Denise Riedlinger)
„Die große Krise steht uns noch bevor“ (Alexander Bogner)
"#CoronaAlltag: Die digitale Seite der Krise" (Karen Kastenhofer)
„Überwachung als neue Normalität“ (Stefan Strauß)
„Digitale Weichenstellungen in der Krise“ (Astrid Mager)
Podcast: „Zwischen Virologie und Verschwörungstheorie: Expertise in der Coronakrise“ (Guest: Alexander Bogner)
Podcast: „In und nach der Covid-Krise: Eine ‚neue Normalität‘ für Wissenschaft und Forschung? (Guest: Karen Kastenhofer)

Covid-19 Projects

Jun 2024 - Dec 2024

Trust in Science, Technology and Democracy

A quantitative-qualitative analysis of institutional skepticism

Apr 2023 - May 2024

Promoting understanding - entering into dialogue - shaping the future

A social science project dealing with possibilities of understanding in the Coronavirus crisis

Oct 2021 - Mar 2023

Epistemic Security (EPISTEMIS)

On Scientific Expertise in Chronic Crises

May 2021 - Aug 2021

COVAC

Expert knowledge on Covid-19 has played an essential role in policy-making since the beginning of the pandemic. An international survey aims to identify new ways of dealing…

Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

COVPOL

Covid-19 mitigation strategies and their local technological impacts: the case of the City of Vienna

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Covid-19 News

COVID und das Impfwesen einst und heute

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Crowded sidewalks, empty trains

Media Highlights 2021

Portrait: The Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA)

Ways out of the pandemic

Press review

Links:

Articles on Covid-19:

Karen Kastenhofer: "The pandemic can open up new ways of doing things"

Zurück in die Zukunft: von der Telearbeit zum Homeoffice

What can Europe learn from the pandemic?

Corona: Who advises whom and how?

Discussion: In crisis, is expertise enough?