ARHIV DRUŽBOSLOVNIH PODATKOV

45 years ago, with the European Communities Study 1970, the foundation was laid for the European Commission’s Eurobarometer programme, a unique international comparative survey series which by now amounts to about 3700 large face-to-face surveys among national publics in EU member and candidate countries. On this occasion the symposium will revisit this data resource that always represented, and still represents, the evidence base not only for European Union politics, but also for a vast body of research on political and social processes of European unification.



The symposium programme will be composed of various invited presentations on exemplary research topics from Political Science and Sociology. Reviewed poster will be invited to complement the insight into its broad thematic and methodological spectrum. A concluding round table discussion shall focus on future perspectives of using Eurobarometer data in academic research.



Featured lectures will start from an evaluation of the historical role of the Eurobarometer between the political construction of Europe and its (pioneer) contribution to comparative research; they will exemplify the strength of the data base in time coverage and in variety of topics, investigating the constitutional factors of European identity or the trust in European institutions in times of crisis, as well as the strategic field of changing public understanding of science and technology. They will represent selected methodological challenges and not least look at the measurement quality of Eurobarometer compared to academic survey programmes.



Confirmed lecturers (preliminary programme here (244 KB))