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Alt text: Graphic announcing MEDem's inclusion in the ESFRI Roadmap 2026. The left side features the MEDem logo above the text "Inclusion in the ESFRI Roadmap 2026." On the right are the ESFRI logo with the words "Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures – Roadmap 2026" and the colorful ESFRI Roadmap icon. The design uses a blue and white color scheme with geometric background elements.
Screenshot of a DFG webpage titled “On the Resilience of Research Data Infrastructures,” showing the DFG logo, breadcrumb navigation, and a banner image of a digital cloud in a server room.
Workshop graphic for the CSDI Workshop 2026 in Vienna featuring the logos of CSDI, MEDem, the Generations & Gender Programme, and Meeting Destination Vienna above three event photos showing speakers presenting at the University of Vienna.
Panel session at the Comparative Survey Design workshop at the University of Vienna: four speakers stand at the front of a conference room, one presenting with a microphone while others stand beside a podium and projection screen displaying the university website.
Researcher Julie de Jong introducing CSDI
Graphic announcing Israel joining the MEDem National Coordinators Network. The MEDem logo appears at the top left, with a map of Europe at the top right highlighting participating countries in blue. Below are three circular headshots labeled Jennifer Oser, Liran Harsgor, and Alon Yakter. Under each photo is their institutional affiliation: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, University of Haifa, and Tel Aviv University. At the bottom, the MEDem website (medem.eu) and contact email (info@medem.eu) are displayed.
A group of MEDem team members standing outside in Cologne, gathered around a bright orange statue of the Mouse from the German children’s TV show Die Sendung mit der Maus.
Sofia Gil-Clavel stands at a podium presenting AmCAT at the 3rd MEDem Conference. Behind her, a slide shows the AmCAT team (Kasper Welbers, Wouter van Atteveldt, Johannes Gruber, Sofia Gil-Clavel) with the tagline: “Developed by researchers for researchers, society, and data savvy users.” Logos of MEDem, VU Amsterdam, and the Societal Analytics Lab are displayed at the top.
Lorenzo De Sio presents at the 3rd MEDem Conference 2025, standing beside a projection of the MEDem Service Gateway Hub. The slide shows tools including MEDem ATLAS, METEOR, AmCAT, and HarDIS, which support comparative democracy research.
Sarah de Lange presents at the 3rd MEDem Conference 2025. Behind her, a slide shows the book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” and a quote on how radical-right behavior grows when previously hidden views become socially acceptable.
Screenshot of the article “Open science in democracy research: the research infrastructure ‘Monitoring Electoral Democracy’ (MEDem)” published in European Political Science. The header shows the journal name, DOI link, and the label “DEBATE.” Below, the title is followed by the author list: Hajo Boomgaarden, Alexia Katsanidou, Sylvia Kritzinger, Georg Lutz, Johanna Willmann, and Jakob-Moritz Eberl. The abstract explains the aims of MEDem as a European research infrastructure to make democracy research data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). Keywords listed include open science, FAIR data, ESFRI roadmap, research infrastructure, democracy research, data harmonization, data linking, and data set search. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41304-025-00534-8
„Wir fördern gezielt den Ausbau der Datenkompetenzen und Infrastrukturen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, damit vorhandene Datenressourcen fĂŒr neue Forschungsfragen genutzt werden können. Dazu zĂ€hlt ab 2026 der Aufbau einer Dateninfrastruktur zur ExtremismusbekĂ€mpfung, ab 2027 die Einrichtung eines Akademienzentrums Digitale Lexikographie und der Aufbau einer europĂ€ischen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur zur vergleichenden Demokratieforschung (MEDem).“ English (translation): “We specifically support the expansion of data skills and infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences, so that existing data resources can be used for new research questions. This includes, starting in 2026, the development of a data infrastructure for combating extremism, in 2027 the establishment of an Academy Center for Digital Lexicography, and the creation of a European research data infrastructure for comparative democracy research (MEDem).”
A small boat covered with a dark tarp is moored along a sunny canal in Amsterdam, with typical narrow Dutch houses and parked cars lining the waterway under green trees.
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Group photo of the MEDem Team and the workshop participants.