Social/Policy Labs at Higher education institutions

5. How has COVID-19 impacted your organization’s activities? Please explain it:

  1. the activities have moved to online space due to restrictions.
  2. distance and (partly hybrid) learning and rdi activities. travel restrictions (for more than a year).
  3. work from home
  4. it has affected activities in terms of timing, less so in content. this means we have to postpone things because there are no in-person meetings, and online meetings are not always effective when innovation and decisions are required. networking is very difficult with this pandemic.
  5. the shift of the main informative/awareness-raising activities to online mode decreased participation. there were difficulties in attracting attention and motivation.
  6. we no longer have direct contact.
  7. we switched to online teaching.
  8. everything has stopped.
  9. we had to digitalize our activities, but apart from that, we received a lot of support from our funding partners (postcode lottery, heidehof foundation) and grew faster than ever!
  10. bad, very bad, closed, not moving, everything online.
  11. restricted some lab activities.
  12. limiting the activities and increasing reactions online.
  13. home office
  14. all the activities are online.
  15. we are mostly online, and contacts with students, colleagues, and industry for research are more difficult. training activities and workshops are not so easy online, even though we have tried hard.
  16. no activities have taken place since march 2020. all lab activities have been suspended while teaching has been held online.
  17. nearly all members of the diverse group can be considered as people at high risk for covid. therefore, we have been organizing all meetings and events online since march 2020. fortunately, this is not only a hurdle, but rather a possibility for us, because the online platforms make meetings and events more accessible in many ways (i.e. there is no need for accessible transportation and locations).
  18. it will be working in june 2021.
  19. changed all meetings to online ones, which inhibits collaborative creativity to some extent. precluded access to more powerful computing equipment, limited access to research subjects, both people and organizations.