Five UU-researchers receive a grant for corona research projects
Five researchers from Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 receive a total grant of 125,000 euros for Corona-related research projects. The Dutch organization for health research and healthcare innovation, ZonMw, has distributed the grants as a part of their .
Many civil society organizations, such as schools, health authorities, and public transport have been confronted with complex issues during the corona crisis. By using scientific knowledge, solutions can be found to solve the practical problems that have arisen as a result of the corona crisis.
The program is funded by the ministries of Health, Welfare and Sport, Education, Culture and Science and the NOW, the Dutch organization for Scientific Research. A total budget of 30 million euros has been made available to award grants to research projects.
The projects
Dynamics between national document on drug treatment options and prescribing behavior in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic
To support hospitals in making local corona policies, the workgroup Antibiotics Policy (Stichting Werkgroep AntibioticaBeleid) has created a dynamic document with drug treatment options that was updated almost weekly with the latest scientific insights. This project investigates the extent to which the updates of this document can be found in the prescribing behavior within six large top clinical hospitals in the Netherlands (Santeon network) during the first hundred days of the pandemic.
Towards a strengthening of the resilience of the literature world after Covid-19
The book sector has entered a deep crisis because of Corona. This project aims to provide past and present best practices through comparative research into other countries and sectors to increase the sector's resilience.
Disease, Social Memory and Resilience: A Competition for Artistic Research Expertise
Embedded into the Utrecht Centraal Museum鈥檚 historical exhibition 鈥淒e gezonde stad鈥, this project draws on the expertise of historians, museum practitioners and artistic researchers. It connects two question complexes which appear urgent during the COVID-19 crisis:
1) How is disease experienced, documented and remembered on the collective level of society?
2) What is the role of art and memory culture in such a crisis?
The COFIT-20 project: stimulating physical activity through online livestream group lessons for people with a serious mental illness during COVID-19
The COFIT-20 project aims, with the help of an online livestream movement intervention, to stimulate the decline in mental and physical functioning and social interactions in people with a serious mental illness. Together with the various partners (the GGZ, the municipality, sports experts and experts by experience), UMC Utrecht wants to develop a protocol for an online live streaming exercise intervention, which will be given by exercise coaches.
Relationship and family problems, care avoidance and prevention during and after COVID-19
The GGZ (Dutch mental health care institution) reports more relationship problems and domestic violence during the corona crisis, while at the same time less professional help is sought. It is expected that a reservoir of unresolved relationship and family problems is currently being built up. Together with the two main Dutch professional organizations for relationship and family therapy (NVRG and EFT Netherlands), this project aims to conduct systematic research into this urgent social problem.