Solidarity & Science: Introducing the European Solidarity Corps

Digital Solidarity

Over the last two decades, the Internet has been a laboratory for social innovation. One of the most unexpected collective discoveries has been the existence of another mode of organization to achieve large−scale co−ordination. This mode relies neither on the market, where price signals perform important co−ordinating functions horizontally (as Friedrich Hayek famously stated), nor on public an...

The Concept of Solidarity:

European solidarity is changing the face of rare diseases.

Almost 1 year ago, a BBC fi lm about a teenager called Louisa Ball briefl y captured the imagination of the British public. Called The Real Sleeping Beauty, the fi lm told the story of Louisa and her family as they dealt with the consequences of Louisa’s Kleine-Levin syndrome: a vanishingly rare neurological disorder that causes prolonged episodes of sleep, lasting, in most cases, between 1 and...

The Eurozone Crisis: Psychological Mechanisms Undermining and Supporting European Solidarity

Europe has become a vivid example of intergroup dynamics with all the risks and chances it holds for peaceful and respectful co-existence. While Europe as a superordinate social category has the capability of solidarity between its subcategories (i.e., nations), negative emotions and behaviors among the countries’ citizens have become more prevalent throughout the emerging crisis. This article ...

[Tuberculosis and solidarity].

Tuberculosis is very probably the oldest human epidemic and the one that has inflicted the most harm in the history of the species. Recent studies have estimated tuberculosis to be about 3 million years old,1 and during much of that time this disease has been our greatest scourge. It is difficult to accept that tuberculosis has been causing harm for so many millions of years and that even today...