ESS Conference 2024

This app is for attendees of the 5th International European Social Survey (ESS) Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, from 8-10 July 2024.

The conference - Addressing grand societal challenges cross-nationally: Investigation, innovation and insights from 20 years of data - will be held at ICS - University of Lisbon and ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon.

The conference will celebrate 20 years of the ESS providing data to the scientific community and comes as we prepare to change data collection methodology in 2027.

Providing data measuring attitudes and behaviour to support evidence-based policies is a task that is just as important as data that supports a thriving economy.

By raising awareness of both the similarities and differences across and within European countries, and how that can change over time, the ESS provides a vital source of evidence.

In doing so, ESS data provides a crucial defence mechanism against the growth of misinformation and helps create a body of evidence for academics and policymakers - at European, national and local level - to promote a just and fair society.

Europe faces challenges new and old: not least the effects of climate change, war in Ukraine, immigration and integration, digitalisation, pandemic-related issues, the rising cost of living, an ageing population and growing health inequalities.

It is in the shadow of these challenges that scholars who have undertaken research using ESS data are invited to join us in addressing these issues by illuminating European attitudes and the social condition, across and within countries, and over time.

This conference will allow users of ESS datasets to convene and showcase the scientific outputs that high-quality cross-national time series data can provide.

As the ESS is a source of methodological excellence, papers related to survey methods will also be presented, including those that can help guide the ESS in transition to becoming a self-completion survey by 2027.

The 5th International ESS Conference will feature more than 250 substantive and methodological research papers which will be presented during 56 parallel sessions.

Participants will also be welcome to attend three keynote speeches by Pippa Norris (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) on the cultural roots of democratic backsliding; Professor Rory Fitzgerald (ESS Director) on moving to self-completion data collection and Jule Adriaans (Bielefeld University) on social inequality.

The registration fee also covers lunch and refreshments on all three days, as well as the welcome reception and conference dinner.