The impact of COVID-19 crisis on diverse democratic perspectives through gender perspective

The proposal will focus on the impact of COVID-19 crisis on the democratic debate, the enjoyment of fundamental rights and work and life of women through gender perspective. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has affected our lives in many ways and manifested itself in many undesirable forms, such as the negative impact of coronavirus on individual lives, it has caused many deaths, the negative impact has also been on the global economy and employment, and on the quality of life in society in the form of restrictions on social rights, such as the right to be protection from poverty and social exclusion, the right to housing and education, and restrictions on medical care. We could also observe different reactions towards democratic debates and the enjoyment of fundamental rights in the different countries of Europe. The impact was even more pronounced from a gender perspective, because as the United Nations (2020) noted, "from health to the economy, security to social protection, the impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated for women and girls simply by virtue of their sex". Accordingly, to the given remarks, it is essential to steer the proposed project in this direction of debate in the different partner countries to avoid similar situations in future pandemics, which will undoubtedly occur again if we derive from historical experience. For this reason, the project outputs will be the following: 3 different survey topics executed in 3 following surveys of citizens and residents in all partner countries through social media with a bottom-up approach to identify critical societal issues about the project topics, 3 different debate panels to promote social engagement through debates, a Topic-Based Group Discussion between partner countries and professionals from the field of democratic debate, human rights generally and women rights specifically, an international conference, panel discussion with political representatives, workshop and publications.