Overview
GGP engages with a wide range of stakeholders who play a key role in shaping the direction, use, and impact of the infrastructure. These stakeholders include policymakers, international organizations, research funders, NGOs, and public institutions working in areas such as family policy, public health, gender equality, aging, and youth transitions. They can be broadly grouped into the following categories:
Collaborating Research Infrastructures and Networks
GGP works closely with a broad range of stakeholders who support, use, or promote its data and findings. These include policymakers, research funders, national statistical offices, and organizations that contribute to advancing population research and its societal relevance.
Our stakeholder landscape includes:
Collaborating research infrastructures
GGP works alongside complementary European infrastructures that cover different stages of the life course, including GUIDE (childhood and adolescence), SHARE (older populations), and ESS (social attitudes and context). Together, these infrastructures contribute to a more complete understanding of demographic and social change. à Link to “Complementary research infrastructures for future-proof social policy: GUIDE, GGP, SHARE and ESS” https://zenodo.org/records/13981872
- National and European networks
These networks foster collaboration across disciplines and borders, helping to strengthen the population research community.
Examples include: ODISSEI (Netherlands), Population Europe, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), and the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS). - Civil society organizations
These groups help bridge academic research and social policy, ensuring that findings from GGP and related studies inform public debates and family-related policies.
Example: COFACE – Families Europe.
Governmental and Societal Stakeholders
GGP works closely with national governments, statistical offices, and public institutions that help implement surveys and use GGP data for policymaking.
This includes:
- Ministries and government agencies
For example, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Family Affairs. - Statistical offices
Such as Statistics Norway (SSB), which support data collection and ensure national representation. - Government research councils
For example, the Dutch Research Council (NWO), which funds research using GGP data. - International organizations
GGP originated with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and continues to work with the European Commission, OECD, EIGE, UNFPA, and others. - Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
NGOs translate research into practice in areas such as gender equality, family policy, child welfare, and ageing.
