During the webinar organized by the publisher IlMulino, Ferruccio Biolcati, Giancarlo Rovati and Paolo Segatti, editors of the book based on the EVS/WVS results in Italy (“Come cambiano gli italiani“) will be interviewed on the most relevant aspects of the research. The interview will be streamed on November 19, 2020 at 17.30 on the YouTube and Facebook account of EdizionidelMulino.
Video now available here.
The full release of the EVS2017 includes data and documentation of altogether 35 participating countries and two surveys of minorities. As previous waves (1981, 1990, 1999, 2008), the fifth wave maintains a persistent focus on a broad range of values.
The release includes three integrated datasets:
In addition and due to their specific samples, individual datasets will be released in the context of EVS2017.
For more information, please go to the EVS Survey 2017.
The data and documentation are accessible through the GESIS data collection at GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences.
On 9.10, Vera Lomazzi gave the keynote speech “Cross-Cultural Comparability in Large-Scale Surveys. Challenges and Innovation through Research Infrastructure Synergies” at the Mid-term conference of the European Sociological Association, Research Network 21 “Quantitative Methods”.
In her talk, she presented the methodological innovation of EVS2017 and how the cooperation with European survey infrastructures in the SERISS project as well as with the World Values Survey, favored the improvement of data quality and cross-cultural comparability in the fifth wave of EVS.
In the same keynote session, Rory Fitzgerald (ESS ERIC) presented the European Social Survey and the current challenges (and possible solutions) of empirical data collection. Furthermore, the collaboration between EVS and ESS ERIC in the context of the EC funded project “SUSTAIN II” has been presented.
Vera Lomazzi also informed about the upcoming final release of EVS2017 (20 October 2020) and of the EVS-WVS Joint Core Dataset (30.10.2020).
Between 25 September and 9 October 2020, the EVS By-Elections took place to fulfill vacant positions in the leading bodies of the European Values Study.
The EVS community is deeply grateful to the members that supported and developed the EVS project so far and warmly welcome the new elected members:
Theory Group of EVS
The newly elected members Edurne Barolome Peral (ES); Tim Reeksens (NL), Natalia Soboleva (RU), Claudiu Tufis (RO) will join Pierre Bréchon (FR), Paul de Graaf (NL), Pedro Magalhães (PT), Ladislav Rabusic (CZ), Giancarlo Rovati (IT) in the Theory Group.
Newly elected Chair: Edurne Barolome Peral
Retired members: David Voas (UK), Loek Halman (NL), Christof Wolf (DE)
Methodology Group of EVS
The newly elected members Ferruccio Biolcati (IT) and Stefan Dahlberg (SE) will join Ruud Luijkx (NL), Frédéric Gonthier (FR), Bart Meuleman (BE), Markus Quandt (DE), Alice Ramos (PT), Ivan Rimac (HR) in the Methodology Group.
Retired members: Michael Braun (DE), Dominique Joye (CH)
Executive Committee of EVS
The newly elected members Morten Frederiksen (DK), Guðbjörg Andrea Jónsdóttir (IS), Alice Ramos (PT) will join Paul de Graaf (NL), Ruud Luijkx (NL), Vera Lomazzi (IT), Markus Quandt (DE), Maria Silvestre Cabrera (ES) in the Executive Committee.
Newly elected Chair: Ruud Luijkx
Retired members: Loek Halman (NL), Dominique Joye (CH), Christof Wolf (DE)
The new groups will be installed during the upcoming EVS General Assembly on October 20th.
The representatives of the EVS and WVS secretariats and data archives met on Friday 14 August 2020 to agree on the workflows, procedures and standards for data archiving and data release of the joint EVS-WVS core dataset.
The preparation of the joint file is one of the core aspects of the agreement between the European Values Study and the World Values Survey. Thanks to this cooperation, the two organizations will offer the research community a joint product, which is expected to include data from 96 countries.
In May 2020, EVS published the third pre-release of EVS2017, which is available alongside accurate documentation via GESIS Data Archive.
In July 2020, WVS published its 7th wave. WVS provides a provisional EVS-WVS Cross-National dataset, created by merging provisional versions of WVS and EVS files. For any questions arising from the use of this dataset, please contact the WVSA Secretariat.
The jointly release of the EVS-WVS dataset, prepared according to the agreed standards, is expected in October 2020.
Ruud Luijkx was keynote speaker at the 4th International Conference of Social Science and Education in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, on 4-5 August 2020.
He presented the European Values Study project and the first results from the fifth wave of EVS.
The conferences focused on the them: RECONSTRUCTING MORAL, EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FOR ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS and offered the keynote speeches of Dr. Ruud Luijkx (Tilburg University), Prof. Dr. Komaruddin Hidayat (Professor of Phylosophy of Religion, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia), Prof. Brian Stout (Dean of School of Social Science, Western Sydney University).
Host: Faculty of Social Sciences, Yogyakarta State University
Co-Host:
The Standing Group brings together experts on value research both on substantive and methodological issues combining the expertise of senior scholars and younger researchers. Aiming at renewing the EVS leading bodies in the future, the functioning of the Standing Group builds on the interactions between new involved members and the existing EVS bodies. The group includes 4 members with currently leading roles in the EVS and 10 additional EVS members, who raised the interest of being more involved in the EVS project and showed their engagement in previous EVS activity in combination with good records in scientific publications on value research. The current main tasks of the Standing Group are:
With the kick-off meeting on April 14th, 2020, the Standing Group started its activity.
Co-Chairs: Ruud Luijkx (current Chair of MG); Vera Lomazzi (current Secretary of EC)
Members: Frédéric Gonthier (FR); Morten Frederiksen (DK); Natalia Soboleva (RU); Susanne Wallman-Lundåsen (SE); Inge Sieben (NL); Gergely Rosta (HU); Guðbjörg Andrea Jónsdóttir (IS); Michael Ochsner (CH); Bogdan Voicu (RO); Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi (IT); David Voas (current Chair of TG); Loek Halman (current Chair of EC).
The full program of the EVS International Workshop in Tbilisi “Comparing values in (post)crisis Europe” and the list of abstracts are now available.
The conference has been particularly successful for EVS.
Members of EVS organized and chaired sessions on
The announcement of the second data pre-release gained a lot of interest also on Twitter (see here and here).
The showcase event of SERISS has been a very nice occasion for networking and present EVS and the tools developed during this project. Remarkable for EVS: the presentation of the myEVS (a video is also available here). EVS was present at the event with a stand, organized by the junior scholars at the central team in Tilburg
Caroline Roberts (University of Lausanne) is the new President of ESRA.
4 new members: Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne), Vera Lomazzi (GESIS), Kathin Thomas (Princeton University), Emily Gilbert (University College London)
Head of Secretariat of the World Values Survey Association Kseniya Kizilova and Secretary of the European Values Study Vera Lomazzi held a working meeting at the #ESRA19 conference of the European Survey Research Association to discuss future joint activities of the WVSA and the EVS.
#WVS and #EVS research programs continue their cooperation in the 2017-2020 joint survey wave. Release of the full #WVS data-set and the merged #EVS-#WVS data-set is planned for July 2020. #EVS Data Archive at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften and the #WVS data archive in Madrid, Spain will work on the production of the merged data-set. It is expected that the new joint data-set will include data for over 90 world countries.
#EVS and #WVS networks will meet further in July 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal at a EVS-WVS pre-IPSA workshop conducted in conjunction with the next world congress of the International Political Science Association.
The SERISS team organizes a workshop/webinar series. Free webinar hosted by CESSDA, will take place on May 21st:
10:00 “Meeting funders’ requirements archiving and data sharing“: this introductory webinar, organized by is intended for anyone who is involved in the collection of data and is considering making (some of) their data available in accordance with funders’ requirements.
14:30 “Finding and reusing data“: the introductory webinar organized by GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences will help guide those who want to learn about ways of finding and reusing research data.
In addition, the Norwegian Centre for Research Data (NSD) organizes a face-to-face workshop on “Legal and ethical issues regarding data collection from a researcher’s point of view” that will take place as a side-event during the ESRA conference in Zagreb, on 15 July 2019.