As part of the EU-funded project ASSET, we are pleased to announce:

The First Summer School on Science in Society related to issues in Pandemics.

Pandemics and other infectious disease (ID) crises impact on mortality/morbidity as well as on socio-economic aspects. Such characterisation requires multi-disciplinary approaches to be developed in the First ASSET Summer School that will cover several key related issues:

• Governance of flu pandemics 
• Unsolved scientific questions regarding influenza and pandemics such as vaccines, research and innovation 
• Crisis participatory governance 
• Ethical, legal and societal implications of pandemics 
• Gender pattern – vulnerability 
• Risk of intentionally caused outbreaks 

The ASSET Summer School aims to establish an interactive learning space for researchers and practitioners in the field of Science in Society (SiS) related issues in Pandemics.

It will focus on sharing and exchanging issues related to conduct and communicate research in SiS according to transdisciplinary perspectives, ranging from public health to social science and communication.

The course will address and critically discuss current discourses on research methodologies and findings as well as on practice-based cases.