Response Tag: Recovery-Oriented

Slovenians can now pay for future services through a dedicated website, enabling them to support local businesses and entrepreneurs who can no longer operate. The offer is divided into several categories, customers can choose from products and services food and drink, tourism, beauty and health, retail stores and other craftsmen. For now, more than 270 bidders can buy securities. Providers introduced themselves briefly on the website, their entire offer and references, and a voucher can be…

Smesvami.sk is a digital platform that will enable Slovakian small business owners and entrepreneurs to offer their future services through a simple online form, which generates their own webpage that they can share with customers. As well as generating a unique page and URL that they can share with potential customers, it also allows people to search the database of potential offers for people based on their different professions.

The website https://www.zachranmesluzby.cz/ allows Czech people to purchase future services from businesses and entrepreneurs, redeemable when businesses are able to re-open. There are currently 343 businesses from which people can purchase future services, all available through the online platform, on which you can sign up either as a supporter or as a service provider.

In the Netherlands, Agricultural and horticultural SMEs will be supported by temporarily relaxing the guarantee for working capital, which is part of the existing decree Borgstelling MKB-Landbouwkredieten (BL). The decree will ease acute liquidity problems for agricultural and horticultural business who experience those problems due to the COVID-situation. The credit is for a maximum of 2 years.

The German Research FOundation have launched a Call for interdisciplinary research into epidemics and pandemics on the occasion of the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2. Funding is given to projects that deal with prevention, early detection, containment and research into the causes and effects of and dealing with epidemics and pandemics using the example of SARS-CoV-2 and other human-pathogenic microorganisms and viruses. This includes research, for example on: the challenges and effects of an epidemic…

Our Tomorrows launched a new SenseMaker framework to establish a rapid feedback loop for citizens to share their experiences with COVID-19 and the impact it has on their families. Stories that are shared contribute to a state-wide Story Bank hosted by the Kansas Children's Cabinet and Trust Fund. State-level decision-makers and community organizations across the state may access the Story Bank and analysis provided by the Our Tomorrows team to craft intervention strategies and rapidly respond to…