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Our multidisciplinary consortium works at the University of Turku, the University of Helsinki, and Tampere University. We study the societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the disciplines of law, administration, political science and history. Our particular focus is on questions of justice and legitimacy.
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Management and coordination of the project
PI, Director
Work Package Leader (WP5)
janne.salminen@utu.fi
Expertise:
fundamental rights, emergency law, crises and constitutional change.
Director, Interaction
Work Package Leader (WP1)henri.vogt@utu.fi
Expertise:
democracy, foreign policy, EU, Covid-19 policies, global impacts of Covid-19.
Expertise:
societal interaction, impact of research, science communication.
University of Turku, Political Science
Director, Interaction
Work Package Leader (WP1)henri.vogt@utu.fi
Expertise:
democracy, foreign policy, EU, Covid-19 policies, global impacts of Covid-19.
Expertise:
transparency, health politics, social insurance and Covid-19 expertise.
Expetise:
democracy theory, democratic innovations, bioethics.
Expertise:
nationalism, Covid-19 policies and coordination at the national and EU level.
Expertise:
EU, EU common foreign policy and Covid-19 coordination.
Expertise:
EU, security of supply, Covid-19 coordination and international health cooperation.
Expertise:
EU, values, human rights and rule of law.
Expertise:
ideologies, nationalism, conflicts, Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary.
University of Helsinki, Political History
Work Package Leader (WP2)johanna.rainio@helsinki.fi
Expertise:
Pandemic governance in historical and comparative perspectives, Nordic model of society and governance in times of crises, crises and democracy.
Expertise:
political parties, political self-conceptions and expertise and policy in pandemic.
Expertise:
preparedness, foresight and evidence-based policy.
Expertise:
expert power, democracy and the relationship between policy, politics and law.
University of Helsinki, Political Science
Work Package Leader (WP3)tero.erkkila@helsinki.fi
Expertise:
accountability, legal oversight and government transparency.
Expertise:
EU economic governance, lobbying, openness and inclusiveness.
Title of Docent, University of Helsinki, Political Science timo.pankakoski@utu.fi
Expertise:
democracy, the politicization of justice and practices of legal overseeing.
Expertise:
Nordic countries, policy processes, legal oversight and decision-making.
Expertise:
crisis and migration, migration legislation in Finland.
Tampere University, Administrative Studies
Expertise:
crisis legislation, the Emergency Powers Act and constitutional questions of the pandemic.
Expertise:
fundamental rights, health law, legislation on communicable diseases.
Expertise:
human rights, Covid-19, European Medicines Agency (EMA), EMA transparency policies, transnational judicial dialogue
Expertise: European Union Law, Municipality and Welfare County Law, fundamental rights, constitutional law, legal theory.
University of Turku, Laws
PI, Director
Work Package Leader (WP5)
janne.salminen@utu.fi
Expertise:
fundamental rights, emergency law, crises and constitutional change.
Expertise:
human rights, the right to health and securitization of public health.
Expertise:
restrictive measures, pandemic politics, state and sovereignty.
Expertise: educational and cultural rights, economic and social rights.
Expertise: security of supply, supply chain management, economic law, resilience.
Expertise: fundamental rights, rule of law, EU law.
Expertise:
rule of law, constitutional resilience and fundamental rights.
Expertise:
constitutionalism, emergency law and constitutional degradation.
Expertise: fundamental rights, constitutional law.
Scientific Advisory Board
Anna Jonsson Cornell (University of Uppsala)
Anna Katharina Mangold (Europa-Universität Flensburg)
Guy Peters (University of Pittsburgh)
Klaus Petersen (University of Southern Denmark)
Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University)
Jo Shaw (University of Edinburgh)
Interaction partners
The Finnish National Youth Council Allianssi
Amnesty International, Finnish Section
Confederation of Finnish Industries
Hanaholmen Swedish- Finnish Cultural Centre
Human Rights Centre
The Finnish League for Human Rights
Finland Chamber of Commerce
Finnish Culture and Arts Association
Association of Finnish Municipalities
The Finnish Hospitality Association
The National Council of Women of Finland
Ministry of Justice
Service Union United
Ministry of the Interior Finland
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Finnish Confederation of Professionals
Finnish Federation for Social Affairs and Health
Mental Health Finland MIELI
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Turku- Southwest Finland European Office
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Ministry of Finance Finland