New Europe College, together with 6 institutions from Europe, has been granted funding from EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program for the project titled Citizen Science for Environmental Citizenship: Backyard Birding and the Potential for Cultivating Green Engagement (EnviroCitizen).

NEC Fellow Leyla Safta-Zecheria has recently published the academic article titled Challenges posed by COVID-19 to the health of people with disabilities living in residential care facilities in Romania. She argues that residential care institutions for people with disabilities are at risk of becoming sites for community contagion with COVID-19.