While traditional models of disease outbreaks largely focus on infection rates, new methods are needed to integrate behaviour from the bottom up, and integrated in macro-level models to coordinate the response world-wide. HERoS’ is a multi-disciplinary project and focusses on disaster logistics, modelling, social media analysis and crisis and disaster governance. The focus in the Work Package on multi-layered governance is related to establishing governance principles and protocols that enable a seamless coordination between policy makers, responding organizations, local communities and citizens’ initiatives, nationally and cross-border. HERoS provides a solid taxonomy of governance arrangements and develops processes and guidance on how best governance practices for epidemics response embedded into humanitarian practice.
“HERoS – Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems” is a project awarded in the EU Horizon 2020 SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020. The PI and project leader of this project is Hanken University Helsinki. Prof.dr.ir. Kees Boersma from the Crisis Resilience Academy is the leader of the Work Package on multi-layered disaster governance; dr. Yiannis Kyratsis from the ISR is co-applicant. Postdocs: dr. Marion de Vries, dr. Lianne Cremers, dr. Fleur Lambermon, junior researcher Cato Jansen, MSc. The consortium consists of 10 partners from 7 European countries. The project has a total budget of €2.8 M.; the budget for the Work Package on multi-layered governance is €365 K. The project website HERoS