Dear Colleagues, After nearly two years into the pandemic, many of you have done research on the COVID-19 pandemic in your respective fields. Information on public health and social measures made in response to the pandemic have been crucial for many of your analyses and to that end, you have perhaps relied on data from the CoronaNet Research Project given the scale and detail with which it has documented government policies made in response to the pandemic. As PIs of CoronaNet, we are reaching out because we are currently planning to spend the next half a year or so finalizing our global effort to collect systematic data on COVID-19 policies before then focusing on cleaning and validating its data. We are thus asking our colleagues to please alert their students to this final window for supporting an important public good and contributing to our collective understanding of the social, behavioral, economic and health impacts of actions taken in the fight against the pandemic. To provide more detail on our project, CoronaNet (https://www.coronanet-project.org/) is a global data collection effort on COVID-19 response measures of governments from all around the world in a joint initiative between the Hochschule für Politik at Technical University of Munich (Chair of International Relations), New York University – Abu Dhabi, Nazarbayev University, Universidade de Brasília, the University of Southern California and the Hertie School of Governance. The main focus of this project is to collect as much information as possible about the diverse actions governments have taken to defeat the pandemic. This includes not only gathering information about which governments are responding to COVID-19, but whom their actions are targeting, what they consist of, how they are implementing them, as well as the timing and durations of such measures. So far, our team of more than 300 active volunteer research assistants (1200 in total) has coded over 95,000 unique policies on national and sub-national level, making us the single largest and most detailed resource on government policies. As research assistants at CoronaNet, students obtain valuable research and soft skills and become part of a network of young scholars from all over the world. This is an unpaid, remote volunteer position, but working hours are flexible and volunteers contribute in different ways and on a schedule adapted to their other responsibilities. We believe working as a research assistant would greatly benefit your students as they can develop useful skills and build academic and professional networks that will benefit them in their future endeavors. By collaborating with the project they will learn to collect and prepare data for analysis, gain qualitative and quantitative research skills, and can take part in academic training and workshops. In addition, we also offer flexible internship opportunities for university credits. Our team consists of students and academics from all over the world with all kinds of scientific backgrounds. We provide in-house training to students, ergo no prior skills are mandatory. There are various opportunities for our most engaged research assistants to take on other roles within the project, which will be recognized in a signed certificate upon completion. Everyone is welcome and can get involved! If you know of any previous or current students who you think may be interested and well suited for taking on this role, we would greatly appreciate it if you could let them know of this opportunity by forwarding this pdf <https://drive.google.com/file/d/101GbLOi-hGFTDvaaH0P6XxY5JtCIpE95/view> to them. If you yourself are particularly interested in data collection for a given country or subnational region, please also feel free to drop us a line. We would love to explore ways to collaborate together to collect this data. Should you have further questions, do not hesitate to reach out to us anytime. Looking forward to hearing from you soon! Thank you very much and all the best, Cindy Cheng, Hochschule für Politik, Technical University of Munich Luca Messerschmidt, Hochschule für Politik, Technical University of Munich Joan Barceló, New York University Abu Dhabi Vanja Grujic, Universidade de Brasilia Allison Spencer Hartnett, University of Southern California Timothy Model, Fors Marsh Group Robert Kubinec, New York University Abu Dhabi Caress Schenk, Nazarbayev University Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir, Hertie School of Governance _______________________ Cindy Cheng Postdoctoral Research Fellow Chair for International Relations Hochschule für Politik