Scientific Research Awards by the Barcelona City Council to COVID-19 outrbreak simulation project

in 2020


On March 2021, the Barcelona city council announced the Scientific Research Awards to the 15 selected proposals for solving urban challenges in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The project “Simulating the expansion of the COVID-19 outbreak: a risk forecast tool considering socioeconomic and gender inequalities in Barcelona” was one of the projects awarded. Its main deliverable will consist of a user-friendly web interface for researchers to explore the determinants of the COVID-19 expansion with respect to socioeconomic and gender inequalities in Barcelona.