Webinar | Strategies to opening up after the pandemic

About this event

Strategies to opening up after the pandemic

Since vaccination has started across all over the world, it is vital to reflect upon the road map different countries have chosen to open up societies and economies. How will countries in Eastern Europe and the Baltic Sea region, and the Caucasus region handles the opening of their respective borders and what lies next in line to go back to a pre-pandemic societal routine?

The webinar is part of a series of online discussions aiming to provide a regional overview updates as well as in-depth analysis of specific topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the FREE Network includes research and policy institutes in Belarus (BEROC), Latvia (BICEPS), Russia (CEFIR at NES), Poland (CenEA), Georgia (ISET PI), Ukraine (KSE) and Sweden (SITE) the webinar provided a comprehensive regional perspective on different strategies implemented in vaccination, opening up the borders and the socioeconomic aspect.

Speakers

• Jesper Roine, Professor and Deputy Director at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE/ Sweden)
• Iurii Ganychenko, Senior researcher at Kyiv School of Economics (KSE/Ukraine)
• Lev Lvovskiy, Senior Research Fellow at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC/ Belarus)
• Michal Myck, Director of the Centre for Economic Analysis (CenEA/ Poland)
• Natalya Volchkova, Director of the Centre for Economic and Financial Research at New Economic School (CEFIR at NES/ Russia)
• Sergej Gubin, Research Fellow at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS/ Latvia)

Moderator