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Successes and Failures of Covid-19 Vaccination Rates in Europe

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European Contexts Series

When: 3 February 2022, 9:00-10:30CET
Where:
Concordia Cloud

Registration is mandatory.
Registered participants will receive a Zoom link one day before the event. Registration deadline: 2 February 2022, at 18:00CET

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Cooperation partners:

ERSTE Foundation, Europe’s Futures (IWM), Presseclub Concordia and fjum

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Speakers

Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, and Research Fellow at the Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Evgenii Dainov, academic, author, and political commentator. Professor of Political Science at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Oana Popescu Zamfir, director of the think tank Global Focus. Editor-at-large of Foreign Policy magazine Romania. In 2016 she served as State Secretary for European Affairs at the Romanian Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Security and the Elderly. Europe’s Features fellow. Romania.

Richard Kollar, Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Advisor of the Slovak government on the epidemoc dynamics.

Luisa Meireles, Editor-in-chief, News agency LUSA, Portugal

Michael Bang Petersen, political scientist, expert in political behaviour and psychology, professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Founder and manager of the project HOPE, an analysis of citizens’ responses to COVID-19 policies. Prof. Petersen’s findings have become a reference in Denmark. He is the chief non-medical advisor of the government.


Concept and Moderation

Mirjana Tomić, fjum/Presseclub Concordia and Ivan Vejvoda, acting Rector of Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)


Background

Vaccination rates in European countries vary from 29% in Bulgaria to 89% in Portugal. What are the reasons behind these disparities: lack of trust, inadequate communication, political pressure, policy choices, conspiracy theories, medical concerns, or other?

Why do these disparities matter? Because fighting the pandemic is a global rather than an individual engagement. The growing anti-vaccine movements can have lasting political consequences.

Six speakers- university professors, journalists and two government advisors on Covid-19 - explain the context in their respective countries: i.e. countries with the highest and the lowest vaccination rate in Europe.


Target Groups

Austrian and international journalists, thinktank analysts, and academics.

Number of participants

Maximum: 70

Format

Moderated conversation followed by a live Q&A

Additional Information

Mirjana Tomic, email: Mirjana.tomic@fjum-wien.at, Cell: +43 676 365 26 9

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Richard Kollar

applied mathematician

Richard Kollar is an applied mathematician. He studied at University of Maryland, and worked at University of Michigan and University of Minnesota. Currently he works as an Associate Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. His research scope is broad from mathematical modelling in biology, physics and chemistry to stability of nonlinear waves. During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemics he devotes most of his time to studies of the epidemic dynamics and related issues and he regularly advises the Slovak government. He also cofounded the multidisciplinary brain trust of Slovak scientists and experts Veda pomaha - COVID-19 that plays an important role in advising both the government and the general public in Slovakia during the pandemics.

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Dmitry Dubrovskiy

Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Dmitry Dubrovskiy (PhD in History) - Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, as well as a Research Fellow at the Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia. Dubrovskiy, alumni of St. Petersburg State University and European University at St. Petersburg, founded and directed the Ethnic Studies Program at the European University at St. Petersburg from 1999-2005. He was the founder and lecturer of the Human rights program, Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Science, St. Petersburg State University from 2004-2015. He was visiting lecturer in Bard College (New York), Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg), and adjunct assistant professor Harriman Institute, Columbia University (2015-2017). Research interest – freedom of speech, minority rights, academic rights, and freedoms.

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Evgenii

Evgenii Dainov

Bulgarian academic, author, and political commentator

Evgenii Dainov (I958, Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian academic, author, and political commentator. He teaches Political Science at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia and publishes comments in both international and Bulgarian media.

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Oana Popescu Zamfir

Oana Popescu Zamfir

Director of Global Focus

Oana Popescu-Zamfir is a former State Secretary for EU Affairs and currently director of GlobalFocus Center, an independent foreign policy think-tank. She is an associate expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations/ ECFR and with Carnegie Europe, a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences/ IWM (Vienna) and fellow of the Agora Strategy Institute (Munich). She is a board member of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy/BCSP. She served as foreign policy adviser to the President of the Romanian Senate, programs director of the Aspen Institute Romania and senior editor of the Romanian edition of Foreign Policy magazine, after being a foreign affairs reporter and editor. Her expertise covers mainly geopolitics and security in the EU/NATO neighborhood, transatlantic relations, global political risk and strategic analysis, EU policies, migration, development, democratization and human rights, asymmetric threats (cyber, hybrid, disinformation, terrorism), shifting models of governance. Oana is an international consultant and media commentator, as well as writer and lecturer. She coordinates international research, public and expert strategy events, and track-2 processes. Oana Zamfir was a Fulbright scholar at Yale, with executive studies at Harvard and St Andrew's.

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Luísa Meireles

Luisa Meireles

Director of information, LUSA News Agency

Luisa Meirles, journalist. Director of information, LUSA News Agency. Portugal.

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Michael Bang Petersen

Michael Bang Petersen

Professor, PhD

Michael Bang Petersen, political scientist, expert in political behaviour and psychology, professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Founder and manager of the project HOPE, an analysis of citizens’ responses to COVID-19 policies. Prof. Petersen’s findings have become a reference in Denmark.

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