🌿 Today is International Wellness Day! The European Values Study has measured life satisfaction since 1981, see the interactive map below.
🔍 Explore this map (and other dimensions of wellness) here:
👉 edu.nl/vx7h8 (select "Satisfaction with life" map)
#InternationalWellnessDay #EVS #Values
🩺 April 7th is WHO's World Health Day, with this year's theme: “Together for health. Stand with science”.
How do people in Europe rate their own health? See the map below.
🔍 Explore the interactive map here:
👉 edu.nl/vx7h8 (search for "health")
#WorldHealthDay #EuropeanValuesStudy #EVS
🐣 This weekend, many parts of Europe celebrate Easter. See the map below for the changes in religious service attendance over decades!
🔍Explore the interactive map here: edu.nl/vx7h8 (search for “Religion”)
#EuropeanValuesStudy #Easter #Religion #Europe #SocialScience #Values #EVS
📢 Call for Abstracts: Youth Transitions
PhD students & early-career researchers are invited to submit proposals for the START final conference (4 Nov. 2026, University of Turin), with selected participants receiving early data access.
Deadline: 15 May 2026
More info: edu.nl/uhxt3
#YouthResearch
📢 Funding alert!
VISTA COST Action has conference grant calls open:
🔹 9 Young Researcher & Innovator Grants (under 40)
🔹 7 Inclusiveness Target Countries Grants
Both offer up to €2,500 for in-person conferences.
⏰ Deadline: 15 April 2026
👉 edu.nl/bfvvy
A map describing the percentage of people per country who indicate they are very or quite happy.
Happy #InternationalDayOfHappiness! 😊🌍
How happy is Europe? According to EVS 2017 data, between 61–95% of people across Europe describe themselves as "very or quite happy", with striking differences between regions.
👉 edu.nl/j8nyu (search for “happiness”)
#HappinessDay #EVS #EuropeanValues
This week, the EVS community came together in Lisbon to give further shape to the new wave! ☀️
Altogether, fruitful days that brought us closer to the EVS 2026 release (and the low flying planes)! ✈️
📊 Our EVS Data Downloads & Bibliography Report 2018–2025 is out!
Some fun facts:
✅ 56,364 dataset downloads since 2018
✅ Bibliography grew from 1,662 → 4,473 publications
✅ 331 new publications in 2025 alone
Full report 👉 edu.nl/4fr3k
P.S. We're in Lisbon this week for our General Assembly 🇵🇹✨
🌍 Today is World Day of Prayer
In the spirit of World Day of Prayer, have a look at the percentage of people who say they pray to God outside of religious services more than once a week, captured in the map below.
🔎 Explore here:
👉 www.atlasofeuropeanvalues.eu/maptool.html (search for “pray”)
How many people in your country belong to a humanitarian or charitable organisation? The differences across Europe are striking.
Find the map here (search “humanitarian”):
👉 www.atlasofeuropeanvalues.eu/maptool.html
#WorldNGODay #EVS #EuropeanValuesStudy #SocialScience #CivilSociety
This week, we highlighted the number of participating countries in the EVS. This week’s reading takes a look back at some of the developments of the past, and offers a prospective of the future of the EVS.
Check out “The Data of the European Values Study from 1981 towards 2026”.
👉 edu.nl/w4pvn
Analysis of panel #survey #data measuring public #attitudes towards education, #employment and family has been undertaken for a new report.
The report was produced for the Make it Strong theme as part of the Infra4NextGen project, funded by @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺.
buff.ly/4oK0zaU
As part of the Infra4NextGen project, funded by @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺, #harmonised datasets have been published for the first time.
These include #data from five social #surveys on the five key areas of the project: Make it… Digital, Equal, Green, Healthy, and Strong.
A new report has been published that analyses public #attitudes towards #inequality, inheritance and proposed taxes to reduce inequality.
The report analysed our panel #survey #data (CRONOS-3) and was produced as part of the Infra4NextGen project, funded by @ec.europa.eu 🇪🇺.
EVS has grown wave by wave! From its first round to today, more countries have joined the EVS, strengthening Europe-wide value research. For 2026, more and more countries are working on translations and fieldwork.
Stay up to date with the latest and participating countries:
👉 edu.nl/vevmq
📘 Weekend reading recommendation
Check out this article using EVS data to investigate whether the promotion of women and girls in the socio-economic and political realm leads to a backlash by men, as they feel relatively deprived.
🔗 bit.ly/4a70M8O
#WomenInScience #EVS #GenderEquality #Research
A picture of some books in a library, in the theme color of the EVS.
📚 New release!
The European Values Study bibliography has been updated and now features 4,473 publications using EVS data.
Curious how EVS data are being used across the social sciences? 👇
🔗 bit.ly/4a99UtE
💬 Is your EVS publication in there?
#EVS #EuropeanValuesStudy #SocialScience #Research
👩🔬 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Below, a map of Europe showing the % of people who say university education is more important for boys than girls. Values vary, and matter for gender equality in science and education.
🔍 Explore more in the interactive map tool:
bit.ly/4amQDDP
Reading recommendation time! 📖
As the Netherlands launched its fieldwork for the EVS this week, we are recommending the following: “What Happened to Dutch Values? Investigating General and Differential Trends in Values in the Netherlands”.
🔗 Find the full chapter here 👇
bit.ly/45Lyb6s
🇳🇱 Fieldwork has started in the Netherlands! 🕵️🚀
Yesterday, the Netherlands officially launched its fieldwork for the European Values Study (EVS) — becoming the second country overall to enter the field in the current wave.
🔗 Follow EVS 2026 for updates👇
bit.ly/45T969x
#EVS
📅Thursday, reading tip day!
🌱Staying on theme with Clean Energy Day, today’s reading tip is: “Right-wing ideology reduces the effects of education on climate change beliefs in more developed countries.”
📄 Explore the full article 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#EVS #Climate #Europe #EVS2026
Map of Europe indicating what percentage of people is very or extremely worried about climate change per country
🌱 It’s Clean Energy Day!
How worried are Europeans about climate change? Our map visualises the % of citizens saying they’re very or extremely worried. A feeling that shapes public support for clean energy policies.
🧭 Check out the interactive map👇
www.atlasofeuropeanvalues.eu/maptool.html
#EVS
A street in Bilbao, Spain
Fieldwork has begun! 🕵️ Spain is leading the way, fielding the EVS starting December 2025.
EVS data have been used extensively to study Spanish society. For example, check out this chapter, outlining how Spain is secularizing: bit.ly/49BeVL9
#EVS2026 #EuropeanValues #Spain #SocialScience
EVS 2026 is underway 🌍🚀
The 6th wave of the EVS combines its historic values time series with a new framework on European Values, addressing democracy, rule of law, sustainability, and Europe in a changing world.
Fieldwork started in Dec 2025 and continues across Europe in 2026.
bit.ly/45T969x
EVS members will be presenting their work at the upcoming #ESRA25.
We contributed to the program with amazing joint sessions with World Values Survey Association and @ess-survey.bsky.social.
See you in Utrecht! @esrasurvey.bsky.social
europeanvaluesstudy.eu/evs-at-esra25/
#Infra4NextGen: New panel survey data now available
The data was collected in 11 countries for each of the five themes of the NextGenerationEU recovery plan: Make it… #Digital, #Equal, #Green, #Healthy and #Strong.
@ess-survey.bsky.social
A searchable inventory of over 10,000 questions asked in previous major surveys on each of the NextGenerationEU themes (Digital, Equal, Green, Healthy, Strong), is now available. infra4nextgen.com/category/inv... @evs-values.bsky.social @ess-survey.bsky.social @ggp.bsky.social
#Infra4NextGen: Webinars, workshops, online courses, educational videos and hackathons designed for students, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in improving youth policy through data-driven insights.
@ess-survey.bsky.social @cessda.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social
📢 Call for Abstract
“From Stability to Fluidity: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives on ‘Normality’” Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje - 10–12 Sept 2025
📝 Abstract (max 300 words) due by 5 May
📩 Info: 50yearsofnormality@fzf.ukim.edu.mk
see more: europeanvaluesstudy.eu/call-for-abs...
Infra4NextGen met at @tilburguniversity.bsky.social #EVS & the @ec.europa.eu's Joint Research Centre to reflect on a strong first year: boosting EU research & exploring youth values. Coming soon: data, trends & E-NextGen platform. europeanvaluesstudy.eu/understandin...
#NextGenEU #HorizonEurope