In this call under COVID-19 Focus Funding, the DFG is inviting proposals on measures to prevent infection in social settings and population groups. In the absence of widespread vaccination or effective medicines against COVID-19, protection against infection currently relies on implementing measures to change people’s behaviour and on changes to social norms. The acceptance, feasibility, implementation as well as the effectiveness of the measures vary among social settings and different group of populations. This means that in certain social settings, measures to prevent infection are only possible to a limited extent or are associated with high social and societal costs. The impact of these barriers against becoming infected in social settings is unclear. Likewise, the acceptance of behavioural recommendations among different population groups also varies.

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List of funded Projects:

Subject Area	Project in GEPRIS
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine	Covid Apps for young adults for preventing transmission and promoting vaccination among refugees
Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology	Adherence to protective measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of trust in science
Empirical Social Research Human Factors, Ergonomics, Human-Machine Systems	Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Social Context Analysis for Safe Events
Differential, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methods	Social Status and the Spread of Pandemics
Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology	Effects of Organizational Climate on Adherence to COVID-19 Guidelines: A Moderated Mediation Model
Economic Policy, Applied Economics Business Administration	ECOS – European COVID Survey
Empirical Social Research	Understanding Non-Compliance with Prevention Measures against COVID-19 Infections in Germany [U-COMPLY]
Economic Policy, Applied Economics	Does discourse breed an appetite for Covid-19 vaccination? An online experiment on group dynamics, arguments, and narratives
Social Psychology, Industrial and Organisational Psychology Differential, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methods	Change in Covid-19-related worries and fears, risk perceptions, and prevention behaviors over the course of the pandemic: Longitudinal prediction of prevention-related outcomes in a vulnerable sample of formerly unemployed individuals
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Medical/Statistics	Enhance the willingness of healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in Germany
Economic Policy, Applied Economics General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology	Behavioral Barriers in the Covid-19 Vaccination Process
Public Health, Health Services Research, Social Medicine	Feasibility of involving trained community mediators in COVID-19 prevention measures (COVID-TCM)