29 projects
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Protection against Infection through regulatory law - ProLaw
The pandemic spread of the SARS-Cov-2 virus hit the states of liberal democracies unprepared. Medicine lacks both drugs and clinically tested vaccines, and the health system as such quickly proved to be structurally overburdened. Above all, the democratic constitutional states of the West were not legally prepared for the pandemic. In Luxembourg, the measures to contain the virus were initially based on a law dating from 1885, before the regulation of 18 March 2020 was introduced as a legal basis with reference to the establishment of the 'Etat de Crise' in accordance with Art. 32.4 of the ...
EICEL: Effects & Impulses of COVID-19 on/for teaching development in Luxembourg
EICEL will investigate the effects of the distance learning period (as a COVID-19 prevention measure) in Luxembourgish schools on pupils, teachers, and families with regard to teaching and learning arrangements from an interdisciplinary perspective. The overall goal is to adapt and develop innovative teaching and learning practices and specific pedagogical methods of a digitally supported learning culture in Luxembourg. It will give essential impulses to teaching development for the 21st century for Luxembourg and beyond, in order to help reducing educational inequalities and to cope with t...
Socio-technical security of a platform for COVID-19 biomedical data sharing and vaccination
Medical data sharing is a service that, especially in the time of a pandemic, is pivotal in fostering collaborative medical research and in prompting a scientifically solid response in the safeguarding of public health. This project will use as use case a new platform for CODVIS-19 medical data research, currently in development by ITTM and Data Vaccinator, to guarantee that the platform protocols' are secure and GDPR compliant, while assessing and improving the platform's usability security. Meant to be used by medical professionals and patients the socio-technical security of the platform...
Tracking SARS-CoV-2 with Open Banking API
According to the health authorities , due to the highly contagious potential of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 desease), the formal preventive quarantine has been replaced by an isolation strategy early March. However, such strategy cannot last for an undetermined period of time, since there is no concrete date for releasing a vaccine or discovering an effective medicine. The return of people to normal activities will probably happen gradually, but still it will create a new potential peak of cases if not made carefully. Thus, a post-isolation strategy needs to be well planned as the next phase....
Psychosocial and emotional well-being of children during and after the COVID-19 outbreak: a mixed...
Public health authorities across the globe are taking measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic which generates high levels of stress and anxiety. This study will target a vulnerable group, primary and secondary school students in Luxembourg. The repercussions of their prolonged confinement coupled with the challenges of digital home learning are unknown. While some children may experience boredom, anxiety, exhaustion, others may benefit from spending more quality time with their parents. Existing social inequalities are likely to influence both the immediate effects of the confinement on c...
COVID-19, MEntal HEalth, REsilience and self-REgulation (COME-HERE)
Humans are a social species, and their health, life and genetic legacy are threatened by social isolation. Like other animals, humans fare poorly when isolated. The preventive measures to contain the current COVID-19 outbreak limit all forms of physical social contacts to a minimum, more and earlier in some countries than in others. Differences exist also within the same country due to household composition and dwelling location. Social isolation is associated with ill health. In this project we will investigate which factors predict levels of psychological distress and well-being associate...
Investigating the role of COmpanion and LIVEstock animals in the Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Lu...
Almost all Coronaviruses (CoVs) affecting human, including human CoV-NL63, -229E, -OC43, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, have a zoonotic origin. Similarly, phylogenetic and recombination analyses strongly suggested a zoonotic origin for SARS-CoV-2. After adaptation to human, some zoonotic viruses retain the capacity of infecting animals, as regularly shown for influenza A virus. There is a raising concern that SARS-CoV-2 virus may have a host switching potential as well. Anecdotic cases already suggest that Canidae and Felidae are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Experimental intranasal infectio...
Ethical Guidance for Health Care Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis and beyond
The aim of this project is to develop ethical guidance that offers orientation for health care workers in situations of fundamental ethical conflicts and challenge. For the first time after 1945, health care workers are currently facing an unprecedented situation of daily grave ethical decision-making, especially in hospitals and retirement homes. Among the most critical and ethically challenging situations is decision-making by health care workers in emergency rooms (ER) and intensive care units (ICU) under conditions of extreme scarcity when demand and medical necessities exceed restricte...
