NEWS & EVENTS

The workshop 'Russia: What kind of Power' is organized by the Ghent University Russia Platform and the University of Tartu. It seeks to offer a platform for interdisciplinary discussions around different conceptualizations of power in the domestic and foreign relations of contemporary Russia.

Given the multiple research questions that the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis have opened up in relation to Russia’s power, the call for papers now also welcomes papers that deal with topics relating to the effects and implications of the current pandemic and crisis for Russia’s power, such as the new understanding of hybrid threats, Russian ‘health diplomacy’, disintegrative trends in the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union, COVID-19’s impact on the situation in eastern Ukraine, domestic decentralization within Russia and the new situation for Russophone communities in the Baltic states.

A dedicated Coronavirus/Covid-19 news section collects relevant news, calls and international updates from the ENLIGHT partner universities in response to the coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic.

See https://enlight-eu.org/index.php/university-about-us/news-events/covid-19

Each ENLIGHT university plays its role at best in tackling the global COVID-19 pandemic and is engaged in dedicated research.

For the purpose of sharing information among partners and other interested readers, we invite you to consult each partner's COVID-19 research web pages for updates and suggest a list of several others that you may wish to consult.

In the framework of INTEGRATE the Center for Research Training in Genomics Data Science based at NUI Galway is recruiting 10 PhD candidates to start in September 2020.

Actual number of infections may already have reached several tens of millions

The number of confirmed cases for the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 officially issued by countries and widely commented on by national and international media outlets dramatically understates the true number of infections, a recent report from the University of Göttingen suggests. Dr Christian Bommer and Professor Sebastian Vollmer from Göttingen University have used estimates of COVID-19 mortality and time until death from a recent study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases to test the quality of official case records. Their data shows that countries have only discovered on average about 6% of coronavirus infections and the true number of infected people worldwide may already have reached several tens of millions. Their study is available online at www.uni-goettingen.de/vollmer.

With its new project “liveSciences3” the University of Göttingen, starting with the life sciences, seeks to improve the international experience of its student through extended and improved digital study offers.

Prof. Derek O’Keeffe, affiliated to the University Hospital Galway and Professor for Medical Device Technology at NUI Galway has developed a platform for exchange of medical equipment to fight Covid-19: https://covidmedsupply.org/