📢 Our e-newsletter is out!
Highlights:
• Loneliness & politics – interview with Annika Rohrmoser
• Programme Conference 2026 insights
• New #DeFacto article by Urs Hafner
📬 Read: shorturl.at/VbzZp
🔔 Subscribe: shorturl.at/DFi1E
#COVID19 #NRP80 #SocialImpact
Who keeps Zurich running? 👥
Discover ‘systemrelevant!’—an interactive tool revealing the daily lives, challenges, and resilience of essential workers. Step into their routines and hear the voices behind the city.
👉 Explore: lnkd.in/epb6zpGe
#EssentialWorkers #Zurich #UrbanResearch
How can we reduce loneliness? 🤝 Discussed in Bern with policymakers, researchers & practitioners. It’s rising, harming health & the economy. Solutions: act at individual, community & societal levels, from care training to urban planning.
#prosenectute #sajv #leavingcare
🔬 Conference 2026 – NRP80 Covid-19 & Society
On 5–6 March in Bern, ~100 researchers from 25 projects shared findings and reflected on societal lessons from the pandemic. Keynote by Anne Lévy (FOPH) and a federal panel linked research with policy. Next step: the programme’s synthesis phase. #NRP80
🇨🇭Public consultation launched on restructuring extra-parliamentary commissions, including the planned dissolution of the Federal Commission for Pandemic Preparedness 🦠
Implications for science–policy interfaces & #PNR80.
Open until 28 April 2026 📄 shorturl.at/vlYtz
📸 © Parliament Services 2025
📊 In a new article, the NRP 80 group ‘Swiss coronavirus policy and companies’ compiled a dataset of 1,330 COVID-19 fiscal support measures in Switzerland (Feb 2020–Feb 2021)🇨🇭. It provides insights into policy timing, types, and political decision-making. 🔎 shorturl.at/owTDz
#NRP80
Teachers & parents: an increasingly challenging collaboration.
#NRP80 researcher Dr Valentin Unger spoke on SRF1 about rising tensions, teacher training, and how COVID-19 made these issues more visible.
🎧 shorturl.at/zr4KV
#TeacherEducation #DigitisingEducation #SRF
⚖️ How did Swiss law perform during Covid-19—and how can crisis governance improve? These questions closed #NRP80 “Swiss pandemic governance” group on 30 Jan in Fribourg. Four panels tackled resilience, human rights, democracy & federalism. 👉 shorturl.at/lJp2W
#UNIFR #Covid-19 #Law #Governance
✨ At the Caritas Forum 2026 in Bern, researchers from #NRP80 shared their work. The “Fit for Crisis?” and “Poverty and Social Security” teams shared first insights on crisis policies, social assistance, and NGO data as early warning systems. 🎉
📖 New article from NRP 80: how digital agencies shape both individual and collective visibility of domestic care workers, using moralising narratives to impact recognition and working conditions.
🔗 shorturl.at/f3BNX
#DomesticWork #CareWork #NRP80
📖 New article from NRP 80’s 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐰 group: COVID-19 pushed Swiss family courts toward digitalisation—but exposed major gaps. The study shows how courts adapted and what’s needed for fair access to justice.
🔗 shorturl.at/tFeNn
#NRP80 #DigitalJustice
📢 Registration is open for the 2026 NRP 80 Programme Conference!
🗓 5–6 Mar 2026 | 📍 Kursaal Bern
25 research groups present findings on Covid-19 & society across 7 thematic areas. Opened by Anne Lévy (FOPH).
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/S2b2c
#NRP80 #Covid19
Picture: © Marco Finsterwald
📢 Join Forum Caritas 2026 on 30 Jan in Bern! Explore poverty in Switzerland with political leaders, researchers & civil society. Insights from NRP 80 included. Register by 18 Jan 👉 shorturl.at/mndTj
#ForumCaritas #SocialJustice #Poverty
📸©Dominic Wenger/Caritas
📖 New NRP 80 publication on Digital justice in family law: Michelle Cottier & Cécile Crevoisier analyse how Covid-19 accelerated digitalisation in Swiss family courts—and why new CPC rules on video hearings (in force 1.1.2025) are not yet crisis-proof.
🔗 shorturl.at/TslaU
#NRP80
📖 New NRP 80 publication! A new paper from the ‘Domestic violence’ group analyses how COVID-19 measures shaped intimate partner violence in Switzerland.
By Paula Krüger & Seraina Caviezel Schmitz.
🔗 shorturl.at/SXzLe
#NRP80 #Criminology
📢 Closing event: ‘Urban spaces for young people’
23 Jan, Zurich (16:30–19:30). Insights from a 3-year NRP 80 project on how youth used public space during Covid-19.
Register: shorturl.at/2cgUB
Info: shorturl.at/Q8Qmn
#NRP80 #UrbanSpaces #Youth #PublicSpace #ZHAW
🔍 Did COVID-19 trigger a ‘pandemic within the pandemic’ of domestic violence? The answer is more nuanced. In a new NRP 80 post on @defactoexpert.bsky.social, Daniel Saraga shows how the crisis exposed vulnerabilities in Switzerland’s protection systems.
👉 shorturl.at/qRIcF
#NRP80 #COVID19 #Violence
📢 New e-newsletter out! Get insights on NRP80 "Covid-19 in society" 🌍✉️
✅ Switzerland is getting a new Epidemics Act
✅ Left alone in the crisis: Female domestic workers
✅ Covid-19 as an endurance test for child welfare & domestic violence
📬 Subscribe: shorturl.at/aiU6R
#Covid19 #NRP80
🔬🤝 The NRP 80 Pairing Scheme connects researchers and policymakers in Switzerland. On 2 Dec, Milan Stocker met National Councillor Regina Durrer (The Centre) to discuss how COVID-19 affected vocational training. A valuable step toward stronger science–policy collaboration.🇨🇭
#NRP80 #VET
📢 CH is revising its Epidemics Act to boost pandemic preparedness. The SSHC-S is reviewing proposals to improve coordination, apply COVID-19 lessons, and strengthen crisis response. More analysis to come next quarter. 🛡️🌍
Full release: shorturl.at/vbUir
Picture: Parlamentsdienste / Kuntswerk ‘Tilo’
📅 Save the Date!
Final Conference of the Swiss Pandemic Governance project
🗓️ 30 Jan 2026, Univ. of Fribourg
Discussing governance, democracy, federalism & human rights in times of crisis.
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/whZrR
#NRP80 #FNS #UNIFR #InstituteOfFederalism #Covid-19 #FinaleConference
🚀 A step ahead for the NRP 80 synthesis! Researchers met at @FNS to discuss findings on COVID-19’s impact on public governance and crisis management. Findings underscore population heterogeneity and the need for a multidimensional monitoring system. Next step: final synthesis. 🌟📘
#NRP80 #Covid19
🎨 Post-pandemic in Switzerland: people – especially youth – are turning to creative & digital pursuits. Cultural attendance drops, festivals grow (38%→52%), 1 in 5 youth dance. 79% of population want more culture but time & money hold them back. Read survey here: shorturl.at/SSIhV
Picture: FSO
🚀 The synthesis of NRP 80 is progressing!
💡 A day of reflection on COVID-19’s impact on work and the economy — exploring heterogeneity, from macroeconomic effects to worker protection. A key milestone towards the final synthesis! 🌟
#NRP80 #FNS #SwissResearch
Switzerland strengthens crisis preparedness 🇨🇭 with the National Science Advice Network (NSAN), providing independent, evidence-based expertise in public health, cybersecurity, disinformation & international challenges.
👉 Read article here: shorturl.at/tldPY
#ScienceAdvice #Covid-19
The research group ‘Coronavirus Protests in Comparison’ (tinyurl.com/3mx45djf) of #NRP80 has thoroughly analysed the protests of the so-called ‘Querdenker’ movement during the #Covid19 pandemic and compiled the results in a scientific article. Read it here👉 tinyurl.com/mw29fhbj
The NRP 80 synthesis is moving forward! 🚀
A day full of insights in Bern 💡 as 11 research groups shared findings on Covid-19’s impact on well-being and life trajectories. A big step towards the upcoming synthesis book! 📘
#NRP80 #Wellbeing #Covid19 #SwissNationalScienceFoundation
🔎 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐍𝐑𝐏 𝟖𝟎’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 “𝐈𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠”!
How can non-discrimination criteria help identify vulnerabilities during a pandemic?
Read the insightful article by @Géraldine Marks Sultan & @Sandra Hotz:
🔗 shorturl.at/pBsGE
#HealthLaw #FundamentalRights #Covid19
The research group ‘The Covid generation’ (tinyurl.com/2p9m4t8x) of the #NRP80 has examined the population-average trajectories of #Wellbeing between 2017 and 2020, comparing young people with other age groups. 📈 Discover the full article here shorturl.at/Gm7z0
The research group ‘The Covid generation’ (tinyurl.com/2p9m4t8x) of #NRP80 has derived an aggregated measure in a guide (tinyurl.com/4tt59euw) that maximises the potential of the #SwissHouseholdPanel to examine multiple dimensions of #Wellbeing, and assess its validity.
#Covid19