Institutional Endorsements

Institutions & Associations Supporting MEDem

As part of MEDem’s path onto the ESFRI roadmap, support from infrastructures and associations plays a crucial role in strengthening MEDem’s visibility. Institutions and associations that sign our Institutional Letter of Support believe in MEDem’s mission to become the European research infrastructure to advance democracy research and to foster a comprehensive understanding of democratic processes and institutions, while promoting the principles of Open Science, FAIR data, and data-driven research.

Listed below are all 60+ Universities and 30+ (Non-)Research Associations or Infrastructures from 20+ countries that have expressed their support for MEDem:

Universities, Faculties and Departments:  BE: CEVIPOL / Free University of Brussels, Institute of Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO) / KU Leuven, Media, Movement and Politics M²P / University of Antwerp, Research Institute Transitions / University of Namur, CY: University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, CZ: Department of Political Science / Charles University, Department of Arts & Department of Political Science / Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Department of Political Sciene / Masaryk University, Department of Political Science and Anglophone Studies / Metropolitan University Prague, Institute of Sociology / Czech Academy of Sciences, DE: Department of Social Sciences / University of Siegen,  ES: Computational Social Sciences Unit – Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Faculty of Social Sciences / Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology / Autonomous University Barcelona, Department of Political Science and International Relations / Autonomous University of Madrid, Department of Policital Sciene, Constitutional Law, and Philosophy of Law / University of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology / University of Grenada, Faculty of Political Science / University of Santiago de Compostela, FR: Audencia Business School, Larequoi Research Center / Paris-Saclay, Centre for Political Research & Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics / Sciences Po, GR: Centre for Political Research / Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Centre for Political Research and Documentation (KEPET) / University of Crete, Center for Research on Democracy and Law (CEDLAW) / University of Macedonia, National Center for Social Research, University of Patras, Department of Political Science and international Relations / University of the Peloponnese, Laboratory of Applied Political Research & Observatory for Democracy / University of Thessaloniki, Marketing and Market Research Lab / University of West Attica, HR: Faculty of Political Science / University of Zagreb, HU: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, IL: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IS:  School of Social Sciences / University of Iceland, IT: Sapienza University of Rome, spsTREND Lab / Univerity of Milan, University of Bologna. University of Milan, University of Molise, LT: Institute of International Relations and Political Science / Vilnius University, LV: University of Latvia, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, PL: Institute of Economics & Committee on Social Communication and Media Studies / Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, PT: Instituto de Ciências Sociais / University of Lisboa, University Institute of Lisbon, RS: Institute of Social Sciences Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory / University of Belgrade, SE:  Department of Political Science / University of Gothenburg, SK: Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Political Sciences, Institute of Sociology / Slovak Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences / Comenius University Bratislava, Faculty of Philosophy / Trnava University, UA: Mariupol State University, US: Democracy Initiative / University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt Center for Global Democracy, XK: Faculty of Philology / University of Prishtina

Research Associations: Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA), European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) & ECPR Standing Group on Political Communication, European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), International Communication Association (ICA), Nordic Political Science Association (NoPSA), The University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), AT: Austrian Association for Communication Science  (ÖGK), Austrian Association of Political Science (ÖGPW), CH: Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM), Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA), CZ: Czech Political Science Association (CPS), DE: German Association for Political Science (DGfP), ES: Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration (AECPA), GR: Hellenic Political Science Association (HPSA), HR: Croatian Political Science Association (HPD), HU: Hungarian Political Science Association (HPSA), IE: Political Science Association of Ireland, IL: Israel Political Science Association, IT: Italian Association of Political Communication, Italian Society of Political Science (SISP), NL: Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP), PL: Polish Communication Association (PTKS), PT: Portuguese Political Science Association (PPSA), RS: Serbian Political Science Association (SPSA), SE: Swedish Political Science Association (SWEPSA), SI: Slovenian Political Science Association (SPOD)

Research Infrastructures: ERIC: Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN), European Social Survey (ESS), Generations and Gender Programme (GGP), Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC), NL: Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Inventions (ODISSEI), US: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Non-Academic Institutions: Austrian Parliament, European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet) – Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBC Transeuropa), Journalism ++

Institute of Social and Political Opinion Research (ISPO)
Media, Movement and Politics M²P
Research Institute Transitions
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Department of Political Science
Department of Arts & Department of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Department of Political Science and Anglophone Studies
Institute of Sociology
Faculty of Social Scienes
Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology
Department of Political Science and International Relations
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Department of Political Science, Constitutional Law, and Philosophy of Law
Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology
Faculty of Political Science
Centre for Political Research & Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
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Department of Political Science and international Relations
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Laboratory of Applied Political Research & Observatory for Democracy in the Balkans, Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean
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Faculty of Political Science
School of Social Sciences
Institute of International Relations and Political Science
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences
Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, Institute of Political Science & Institue of Sociology
Faculty of Phylosophy
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Center for Global Democracy
Faculty of Philology

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