Pelot - toivo - luottamus : Näkökulmia Luoteis-Venäjän hiv- ja aids-kysymykseen

Verkkoversion ISBN 978-951-33-2282-3, ISSN 1795-810

The role of social transfers in mitigating families with children from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

In this study, we investigated the household income of families with children. Our specific interest was the earned income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how social transfers have mitigated those losses. We assessed the monthly income levels by comparing the information on the year prior to pandemic to income levels during COVID-19 pandemic. We found that the pandemic affected all studied subgroups of families with children, with the most negative economic influence in May 2020. In addition, our results indicate that in Finland the social transfers protected fairly well against the negative economic impacts of the pandemic among families with children, especially among vulnerable families (those with lowest income level prior COVID-19, with low parental education, single-parent families and families with non-Finnish-born parents). The information gained from this analysis can be useful in economic recovery during and after COVID-19 pandemic, and when preparing for future challenges.Peer reviewe

Forecasting impact of technology developed in R&D projects: the FITMAN approach

A typical two- or three-year research project hasan impact that is only really visible after the project has come to an end, at a time when there are no resources to monitor thatimpact. As a consequence, projects need to estimate/predict theirfuture impact before they end. In this paper we describe theimpact activity monitoring method in the FITMAN project. Thismethod addresses the problem by accounting for actions to raiseimpact during a project and the planning for such actions after aproject has ended. We also describe the socio-economic impactassessment methodology created in FITMAN, showing how thislinks to the impact activity monitoring method. Key to both is theassessment and monitoring of impact in three different areas:industry, society and the scientific community. Each arearepresents different challenges and we discuss their relative valueto the overall assessment. We also report on our earlyexperiences of applying this to ten industry-led use case trials inthe FITMAN project. The insights gained by applying thesemethodologies can be more widely applied across domainsrelated to technology managemen