Institutional Endorsements

Institutions & Associations Supporting MEDem

As part of MEDem’s path onto the ESFRI roadmap, support from infrastructures and associations plays a crucial rule 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 Universities / Faculties, Scientific Associations, and Standing Groups that have expressed their support for MEDem:

International 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), Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Inventions (ODISSEI), The University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES)

National Associations and Institutions: AT: Austrian Association for Communication Science (ÖGK), Austrian Association of Political Science (ÖGPW), 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, CH: Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM), Swiss Political Science Association (SPSA), DE: German Association for Political Science (DGfP), ES: Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration (AECPA), 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, 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, Laboratory of Applied Political Research & Observatory for Democracy / University of Thessaloniki, Marketing and Market Research Lab / University of West Attica, HR: Croation Political Science Association (HPD), Faculty of Political Science / University of Zagreb, HU: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Political Science Association (HPSA), IE: Political Science Association of Ireland, IS: School of Social Sciences / University of Iceland, IT: Italian Association of Political Communication, spsTREND Lab / Univerity of Milan, LT: Institute of International Relations and Political Science / Vilnius University, LV: University of Latvia, Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences, NL: Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP), Association for Electoral Research Netherlands (SKON), PL: University of Silesia in Katowice, PT: Instituto de Ciências Sociais / University of Lisboa, Portuguese Political Science Association (PPSA), RS: Institute of Social Sciences Belgrade, Serbian Political Science Association (SPSA), SE: Swedish Political Science Association (SWEPSA), Department of Political Science / University of Gothenburg, SI: Slovenian Political Science Association (SPOD), 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