25 projects
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Compulsory health training for future pandemics
One of the key challenges that many countries, particularly Luxembourg, is facing during the pandemic is the shortage of health practitioners. Without a doubt being trained in health practice has lots of restrictions, rules, and regulations as it is concerned with lives of human beings. Nevertheless, what I'm suggesting here needs lots of refinement and consultations with health experts/professionals to draw out a final applicable solution. The basic idea is that since this pandemic, as many politicians have put it out, is a war against humanity, I'm suggesting that we prepare our citizens ...
DECORUM: Distribution of ECOnomic impacts and Recovery Under covid19 induced Market restrictions
Given the sudden disruption in market activity arising from quarantine of labour due to the covid19 pandemic, it is imperative to investigate the economic impacts and the possible means of a speedy recovery. The disruption of national and global supply chains has had an impact on the demand. Certain products have seen a surge in demand (especially necessities and medical supplies) while other commodities have dropped out of reckoning as they are relatively lower in the priority list in this meltdown. It is of paramount importance to keep economic activity operating to ensure the welfare of ...
Effect of the Pandemic on Air and Maritime traffic and the Atmosphere (EPAMA)
We will use existing databases to study the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic onto air and maritime traffic and consequently onto the atmosphere. Through this, the socio-economic and environmental impact of the disease can be better understood. This help to prepare for the future. In addition, it helps to understand what impact traffic has onto the atmosphere.
Perceived economic vulnerability and intra-household behaviour adjustment (ADJUST)
The project ADJUST aims at mapping and analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying quarantine measures on social inequalities in Luxembourg. Theoretically, it seeks to advance the international research agenda in response to the pandemic by particularly scrutinising its short- and medium-term effects on social inequalities on the micro level, i.e. on individuals and households. It particularly focuses on strategies developed within the households in order to contain vulnerability, and their societal implications. The overall hypothesis is that pandemic leads to the reorga...
Nonperforming mortgage loans in Luxembourg and the EU during and after the COVID-19 crisis
Luxembourg is one of the countries with the highest household leveraging on private debt and mortgage loans. Important for financial stability the economy is to examine the extent to which the number of households that have not been able to service their mortgages has increased, as a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns and production disruptions. An important part of the problem is to study the extent to which banks in Luxembourg and the EU face a risk of increased nonperforming loans. If there is a problem with increased nonperforming loans, then one should examine policies that can tackle th...
Keeping our Eyes open on Developing Countries - Coping with Humanitarian and (illegal) Migration ...
As European countries restart their economies, they will also consider reopening their internal and external borders. What will they do with respect to countries where the Covid-19 is not yet under control? In particular, the control over external borders is expected to remain for a (much) longer period if developing countries are unable to contain the spread of the virus. European countries, with or without coordination, are likely to close their borders and restrict entry to people from Africa and other poor regions. Such restrictions would affect either the selection of the destination ...
Exit from confinement using online self-diagnostic
It is crucial to relaunch the economic activities in a way that the contamination risk does not increase too drastically. The idea is to identify for each employee the time when she/he could go back to their work, that can't be done online. The identification should be based on the self-diagnosis online tool designed in collaboration with medical researchers. For simplicity and minimum of risk, we shall suppose that a given combination of observable (for an individual) symptoms must be related to COVID. Thus, employees who has recently suffered from a simple flu and still have some remaini...
reZilience
Supply chains facilitate the flows of goods and services and as such they are at the core of ensuring economic prosperity. The resilience of supply chains is fundamental to the success of companies and even more importantly to the livelihood of societies. The current pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of our existing supply chains, and in this context work package 13, supply chains and logistics, of the COVID-19 task force is tasked, among others, with the assessing the state of supply chains in Luxembourg. At the moment, WP13 is developing a quick survey to gain basic insights into ...
