DONATIONS | | fnrs.tv | fnrs.news | SPI | FR IN THE FNRS OUR FUNDING PRIZES & SPONSORSHIPS INFO EUROPE COMMUNICATION HomeCommunicationFNRS.live FNRS.live: The "world after" seen by 5 FNRS researchers Is the crisis we are going through the end of our civilization? This first FNRS.live, broadcast live on the FNRS Facebook page on June 22, 2020, takes a look at the “next world” in which the place of researchers will be even more fundamental. It brings together 5 FNRS researchers who consider the future prospects of our civilization through the prism of their field of expertise. It echoes issue 119 FNRS.news, titled "Apocalypse?" . With Simon Dellicour - FNRS, ULB researcher Simon Dellicour is an epidemiologist at the Laboratory of Space Epidemiology at ULB. He has been seen often in the media in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, due to his expertise in molecular epidemiology. In this discipline, the genetic information contained in viruses is exploited to answer epidemiological questions. Simon Dellicour studies in particular the mutations occurring in the genome of viruses to trace the history and their dynamics of dispersion. Was this epidemic predictable? Are we going to face new epidemics soon? If so, will we be able to anticipate them? Will we manage to manage them? So many issues discussed with him. Johan Michaux - FNRS Research Director, ULiège Johan Michaux is director (and initiator) of GeCoLAB, the laboratory dedicated to research on biodiversity at ULiège. The challenges of biodiversity are often minimized, or even ignored. Why is it important - crucial - to conserve biodiversity? Put another way: how dangerous is the loss of biodiversity that we are currently seeing? As part of this first FNRS.live, Johan Michaux addresses these questions and makes the link between the loss of biodiversity and the epidemics that we will increasingly be confronted with. And tries to answer this question to which we dread the answer: is it too late to go back? François Massonnet - Qualified FNRS researcher, UCLouvain François Massonnet is a climatologist attached to the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouvain. They were everywhere from the start of the epidemic: maps showing the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere and changing from red to green. The interruption of industrial activities was presented as a boon for the planet. With the resumption of these activities, the specter of global warming hovers over our heads once again ... When we talk about global warming, we also evoke the danger of the awakening of old, forgotten or unknown viruses sleeping under the permafrost ... And makes us fear new epidemics. Aware of all this, we are. But will this coronavirus crisis succeed in fostering the emergence of a momentum for citizen mobilization and political actions? Or will it just be a temporary burst? Estelle Cantillon - FNRS, ULB Research Director Estelle Cantillon is a researcher at ULB. An economist, she is interested in "markets", whether financial or not. His job has led him to think about the economic consequences of this crisis on our society and the adjustments to be made, like many other researchers. What are the solutions envisaged to enter this “world after”? This first FNRS.live is an opportunity to address the economic issues of a transition, whether energy, ecological or health ... Does a transition really cost “expensive”? Will we have the means? Will we have a choice? Can we use the crisis to revive the economy, in a different way, on a European or global scale? François Gemenne - FNRS, ULiège qualified researcher François Gemenne is director of the HUGO Observatory, the first structure in the world interested in the migration issues involved in climate change. It is therefore naturally through this prism that he looks at the “next world” in this first FNRS.live. At first glance, the health crisis and migratory flows do not have a close relationship. But can this current crisis provoke others? Any crisis leads to a tendency towards identity withdrawal, and this is not lacking. But could it intensify following the return to a more local, less global economy? Could this same withdrawal have consequences for the migration policies carried out by States? 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