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Project 101166700 — EUROpest
The EUROpest project: A Novel Understanding of Pandemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe (1300-1800): Combining History, Machine Learning and Natural Sciences will be carried out by a consortium coordinated by the University of Warsaw.
EUROpest aims to replace simplistic models of disease with a more comprehensive approach, enabling a more detailed understanding of historical disease outbreaks and a blueprint for navigating future ones.
The main objective of our project is to find the answer to the question of why the same pathogens, depending on the context, bring about different biological, ecological, social, economic and cultural effects. We want to address this issue by studying more than 50 different epidemics in European history, from the Black Death to the age of industrialization, over some 500 years, looking at them from possible angles, including climate, genetics, ecology, as well as the unusual topics such as church rituals (did they sing or not?) or the types of hats worn.
Project starting date: 01.07.2025
University of Latvia Normunds Stivriņš