Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World: End of project conference

Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World: End of project conference

On 15th and 16th May 2025, Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) coordination team was delighted to host the virtual end of project conference for its third joint call Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World (RRR). The event brought together 18 successful projects, their collaboration partners (stakeholders), funders’ representatives and invited guests to pursue the following aims:

  • To explore the key findings/outcomes of the funded projects.
  • To provide a forum for discussion and reflection on working in Trans-Atlantic partnerships.
  • To offer a space to provide constructive feedback to T-AP supporting funders to continuously learn and improve the processes and delivery of T-AP future calls.

You can access project summaries and final white papers of the project teams here. Recordings of the event are available via YouTube below.

Roundtable Discussions

Across the two days, four roundtable discussions were organised, each moderated by an academic from the Democracy, Governance and Trust call. The roundtables began with Project Leads sharing key insights about their work for 5 minutes before facilitating an open discussion among the project teams to ask questions and exchange ideas. The discussions were then followed by a plenary Q&A. To aid these discussions, project teams were asked to submit a summary of their findings ahead of the event.

Recordings of the roundtable discussions are available for viewing via YouTube using the links in the following table:

Teams Recording  Group composition 
Group 1 Moderated by Amâncio Jorge Silva Nunes de Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo

Exploring the Effects of the Pandemic on Inequality in North & South America & Europe:

  1. Adaptations of Young People in Monetary-poor Households for Surviving and Recovering from Covid-19 and its Associated Lockdowns
  2. Deaton Review Country Studies: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison of Inequalities in Incomes and Outcomes over Five Decades
  3. Taxing Ghosts: Closing Residency Loopholes to Fund Post-Pandemic Recovery Efforts

Examining Green and Inclusive Post-Pandemic Recovery:

  1. Towards a Green and Inclusive Post-Pandemic Recovery of the Blue Economy & Coastal Communities
Group 2 Moderated by Munacinga Simatele, University of Fort Hare

Examining the Effects on Care Work during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic:

5. Who Cares? Rebuilding Care in a Post-Pandemic World: uncover and understand the matrix of care provision

6. En Route to Recovery: Diversity and vulnerability in care work during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Building Resilience:

7. Reconnecting with Experience and Sensitive for Instructional Practices Fostering Inclusivity, Resilience, and Equity

8. The Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication and Engagement for Science in a Post-Pandemic World

9. The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19
Group 3 Moderated by Christopher Barrie University of Oxford and New York University

Exploring the effects of the pandemic on governance, communication, political participation, gender and community actions:

10. Inequalities, Community Resilience and New Governance Modalities in a Post-Pandemic World

11. Exploring the role of Adaptive Capacity on Democratic Performance: Governmental and Non-profit Organisations in the Pandemic

12. Gender, mobilities and migration during and post COVID-19 pandemic: Vulnerability, resilience and renewal

13. Pandemic Communication in Times of Populism: Building Resilient Media and Ensuring Effective Pandemic Communication in Divided Societies

14. Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community actions and decentralized governance
Group 4 Moderated by Sarah Ganter, Simon Fraser University

Analysing the Trajectories, Outcomes and Sustainability of Grassroots Innovations and Collaborations in Marginalised Communities:

15. Forest Citizenship for Disaster Resilience: Learning from Covid-19

16. Building Back Better from Below: Harnessing Innovations in Community Response and Intersectoral Collaboration for Health and Food Justice Beyond the Covid-19 pandemic

Understanding and Supporting the Recovery Needs of Socially, Politically and Physically Marginalised Communities

17. Voices of Recovery: Recognising Intersecting Risks, Capacities and Pandemic Recovery Needs in Marginalised Communities of Latin America

18. Impact of Covid-19 on Livelihoods, Mobility and Accessibility of Marginalised Groups