Abstract
This report from the ROBUST project analyzes 35 public value solutions across 18 European localities aimed at safeguarding children’s wellbeing during COVID-19. It examines governance factors - multi-level governance, hybridity, and societal intelligence - and actor-centered strategies like distributed networks and accountable autonomy. Findings show local actors and NGOs played key roles, lifeworld knowledge was crucial, and network-based governance dominated. Public value solutions were largely legitimate, effective, and adaptive, though innovativeness declined over time. The dataset supports further configurational analysis of robustness in crisis governance.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | European Union |
| Number of pages | 91 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Mar 2025 |
Funding
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe program under grant agreement no. 101061272
Keywords
- robust governance
- societal turbulence
- COVID-19
- child wellbeing