The GGP is proud to announce the successful kick-off meeting for the Infra4NextGen project, held in Brussels on April 24th and 25th. This 4-year Horizon Europe initiative, coordinated by the European Social Survey ERIC with CESSDA ERIC, the European Values Study, and the Generations and Gender Programme, aims to support NextGenerationEU priorities through cross-national survey research.
Representatives from over 30 leading institutions, including top social scientists and data experts, attended the event. The Scientific Advisory Board, Youth Board, and experts from the European Commission's Joint Research Center also participated to ensure citizen and policy representation.
Infra4NextGen's goals include summarising existing data on digital, equal, green, healthy, and strong NextGenerationEU areas; collecting additional data using the 11-country panel CRONOS; conducting public deliberation sessions in four countries; developing a tool for public visualisation of survey data; creating harmonised datasets from different surveys; and developing training resources for better data utilisation.
Key speakers Rory Fitzgerald, Director of ESS ERIC, and Eric Harrison, ESS Deputy Director, highlighted the project's potential to bridge academic research and policy-making. Infra4NextGen promises to create new tools and resources to improve survey data use in policy-making, supporting the NextGenerationEU vision. To learn more about the NextGenerationEU programme, click here!
