ROBUST - Crisis Governance in Turbulent Times

🌟 Happy 2025! 🌟 As we return from the winter break, we're excited to dive back into our mission of advancing research in #RobustGovernance. This year, ROBUST continues to explore innovative solutions and share insights on governance and crisis management, with many critical milestones ahead - including the finalization of our policy recommendations. Here’s to a productive and inspiring season ahead! ➡️https://lnkd.in/eke4-_Mz #Governance #CrisisManagement #Collaboration #EUFunded

As we begin to wrap up our work in 2024, we would like to thank everyone who has taken part in our interviews, webinars and events this year - your contributions are indispensable, and have been critical to support our project's success! Following our stakeholder meeting in October, here is a video message from Chiara Russo, PhD researcher at the University of Antwerp, explaining how stakeholders' perspectives are informing our research and policy recommendations ⬇️ Jacob Torfing Eva Sørensen #RobustGovernance Wouter Van Dooren Koen Verhoest

📢Upload your abstracts by 28th of October and join us at IRSPM! The IRSPM conference will take place on 7-9 April 2025. Many members of the ROBUST team will be attending, including Tina Øllgaard Bentzen, who will be the panel chair for the session 'Navigating crisis-induced societal turbulence: the role of robust governance in ensuring social sustainability and equity'. Register now, and see you there! #RobustGovernance Veronika Vakulenko Hans-Juergen Bruns Federico Cuomo Scott Douglas Giuseppe Grossi https://lnkd.in/eAj3jBP5

After two wonderfully productive days together in Zaragoza, our consortium meeting is now over! After the announcement of the EU Commissioner-designate for Preparedness and Crisis Management and Equality Hadja Lahbib, the importance of our work in Crisis Management has never been more evident and critical for policy makers in the EU and across Europe. Now is the time to make the bridge from research towards developing recommendations and effective actions for Robust Governance in the face of turbulence. Our research may be on past crises - Covid-19, the Refugee crisis and the financial crisis - but our recommendations will be transferrable, informed by diverse stakeholders that we have consulted throughout our project. And in the context of medicine shortages, antimicrobial resistance, and other major challenges the EU is facing, it is ever more urgent to adopt Robust practices from local to international contexts. From journal publications to video releases to conference sessions, there are many exciting milestones ahead for our team. Stay in touch and reach out to find out more, via our Learning Hub! https://lnkd.in/ezJ6DcXT Many thanks to our partners at the Universidad de Zaragoza for hosting the team and for their fantastic hospitality! #RobustGovernance #Covid19 #AMR #crisisgovernance #refugeeswelcome

DEVELOPING A THEORY OF ROBUST DEMOCRACY Drawing on insights from the EU funded project ROBUST - Crisis Governance in Turbulent Times Mark Warren and I have recently publiched an article where we take the first steps in developing a theory of robust democracy. The article is published by Politics & Policy. The main message is that in order to overcome the current democratic crisis, liberal democracies must enhance its abilty to adapt and innovate its institutions and processes in response to societal changes.

Robust governance the focal point in Brussel stakeholder meeting Researchers from the ROBUST - Crisis Governance in Turbulent Times project met with 30+ stakeholders to discuss preliminary findings from the EU Horizon project. Thanks to everybody for their contributions to the lively and insightful discussions. Society has always been turbulent, but turbulence is rapidly becoming the new normal. Decionmakers face an increasing number of unpredictable dynamics and spend more and more time putting out small and big fires. The rise of turbulence call for robust governance based on flexible adaptation and proactive innovation that can help decionmakers to uphold key public functions, purposes and values during spells of heightened turbulence. Recently, the ROBUST project has started to explore the scaffolding of robust governance. The focus is on three conditioning factors: multi-level governance, hybrid governance and societal intelligence. The relevance and timeliness of the ROBUST project is beyond discussion, Ursula von der Leyen has decided to appoint a new Commissioner for Preparedness and Crisis Management that will take a more 'robust approach to European crisis management'. The ROBUST project has a lot to offer going forward thinking about what a robust approach to crisis management entails.

Today, the ROBUST team held our Stakeholder Meeting in Brussels! 🌟 We welcomed the diversity of our stakeholders’ valued contributions throughout the event, including NGOs, research groups, local governments, and more. Stakeholders engaged in a co-creation workshop to assess the feasibility of policy recommendations, whose critical input will inform our projects' policy briefs. Setting the stage, our PI, Jacob Torfing, highlighted how short-term crises often distract policymakers from long-term goals, emphasizing the need for robust governance strategies that adapt and innovate in response to ongoing turbulence. Presentations covered: 🔸WP3 (Andrea Pettrachin): Multi-level governance (MLG) fosters collaboration across government levels and sectors, helping create robust crisis responses. Research on the COVID-19 and refugee crises across multiple countries illustrated how MLG can create robust responses by ensuring broad representation and coordination across stakeholders. 🔸WP4 (Steven Nõmmik): Governance hybridity combines measures to enhance crisis response, with case studies from Estonia and Urk, illustrating the strengths and challenges of hybrid governance systems, especially in contexts of conflicting priorities and pressures during crises. 🔸WP5 (Chiara Russo): Societal intelligence integrates diverse knowledge for effective decision-making during crises. Case studies revealed the importance of inclusive knowledge interfaces, adaptive information output, and the need for tailored approaches to ensure effective crisis response. We thank all attendees, organizers and hosts for this successful event! The conversation doesn't stop here - join our Learning Hub to connect with our research group and share experiences of governance in times of crisis: https://lnkd.in/ezJ6DcXT Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eke4-_Mz.

GOING TO IRSPM IN BOLOGNA 2025? Come join us! Call for Submissions: IRSPM Conference 2025 Panel 24 "Navigating Crisis-Induced Societal Turbulence: The Role of Robust Governance in Ensuring Social Sustainability and Equity" I’m very excited to co-chair this panel at the upcoming International Research Society for Public Management IRSPM Conference 2025, taking place in Bologna, Italy from April 7-9, 2025. I’m honored to be collaborating with great colleagues on this panel: Veronika Vakulenko Hans-Juergen Bruns, Federico Cuomo, Scott Douglas, Giuseppe Grossi Our panel will explore how governance can address the complex challenges of crises and social turbulence, ensuring sustainability and equity in society. We welcome paper submissions that critically examine the role of public institutions, policy innovation, and governance navigating turbulence or crises. 🗓️ Deadline for paper abstract submission: 28 October 2024 For more information, visit: https://lnkd.in/dXfnqUSz We are looking for innovative papers and case studies to contribute to this important discussion! Join us in shaping the future of governance in a time of rapid change. ROBUST - Crisis Governance in Turbulent Times #Robust #IRSPM #Governance

🔍 In response to pandemic uncertainty, a Norwegian municipality pioneered a versatile COVID center. Consolidating testing, tracing, and public info, its flexible workforce ensured adaptability and scalability - an example of a modular response to evolving demands. #PublicHealth #COVID19Response #Norway Read more: https://lnkd.in/eke4-_Mz Nord University Jacob Torfing Renate Kolvereid WHO Regional Office for Europe Norwegian Institute of Public Health