The Infra4NextGen project is four-year Horizon EU-funded project co-ordinated by the European Social Survey European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC) and includes CESSDA ERIC, the European Values Study (EVS) and the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) at its core. The project is providing data, tools and training to support the NextGenerationEU themes – digital, equal, green, healthy, and strong – and European youth policy.
The European Values Study (EVS) is part of the Infra4NextGen project and is represented by Ferruccio Biolcati Rinaldi and David Consolazio of the University of Milan, together with Inge Sieben and Tim van Meurs of Tilburg University.
As part of the Infra4NextGen project, harmonised datasets on five themes have been published for the first time.
These initial versions include data from five social surveys that have been harmonised to make them as comparable as possible, even if the original question text and response scales differed.
As with all elements of the Infra4NextGen project, the harmonised data was developed in the context of five pillars of the NextGenerationEU programme.
NextGenerationEU aims for Europe ‘to build a greener, more digital and more resilient future’ with a focus on five key areas: Make it… Digital, Equal, Green, Healthy, and Strong.
The harmonised files include data from our survey, Eurobarometer, European Quality of Life Survey, European Values Study, and International Social Survey Programme.
Panel survey data (CRONOS-3) collected in 11 countries on each of the five themes (2024-25) will be added to the second data harmonisation release that will be available in 2027.
The NextGen Harmonised Data Gateway serves as a central hub for all aspects of the data harmonisation process.
This offers transparent access to the datasets and provides the tools needed to understand and utilise the harmonised data.