Table 1.

Study approach and methods

DSR framework Driving force (D: COVID-19 pandemic)	Sections	Subsections	Approach	Methods
State (S)	4) Results: SDGs interconnection analyses	4.1. The Impact of COVID-19 on the SDGs and their interconnections	Conducting 2 online FGDs about general impact of the pandemic for the SDGs Conducting 4 online FGDs with facilitating impulse speeches by selected experts, reflecting the impact of COVID-19 on the SDG4; SDG12; SDG8 and SDG3; and SDG 13	Qualitative analyses of group FGDs based on authors impulse speeches, observations and reflections
State (S)		4.2. Interconnections of SDGs triggered by pandemic	Conducting final online FGD to discuss the results of individual sessions and to reevaluate how far the analyses represent the group discussions For each of the 5 SDGs (SDG4, SDG12, SDG13, SDG8 and SDG3) the interconnection with the other remaining 16 SDGs is analyzed, in order to identify the most interconnected SDGs, fostered by pandemic for policy recommendation	Qualitative analysis of all group-discussions; concluding communicative validation; systematization of results
Response (R)		4.3 Green recovery: the way forward	Conducting final online FGD to discuss results. Some aspects from the findings were elaborated in order to channel policy response and a way forward	Based on systematization of results of qualitative analysis