COhort cOmmunity Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe

COORDINATE

PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR

Kai Leichsenring

PROJECT TEAM AT THE EUROPEAN CENTRE

Cassandra Simmons

EXTERNAL PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR

Prof. Gary Pollock, Manchester Metropolitan University (Great Britain)

Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Symonds, University College Dublin, The Geary Institute (Ireland)

PROJECT PARTNERS

Manchester Metropolitan University (Coordinator)(United Kingdom)

University College Dublin, The Geary Institute (Ireland)

Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, European Research Infrastructure Consortium (Norway)

Institut Drustvenih Znanosti Ivo Pilar (Croatia)

Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Pompeu Fabra University) (Spain)

Institut national d'études démographiques (France)

University of Essex, The Institute for Social and Economic Research (United Kingdom)

Znanstveno-raziskovalno središče Koper (Slovenia)

ISCTE/Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (Portugal)

Helsingin Yliopisto (University of Helsinki) (Finland)

Alma Mater Studiorum- Università di Bologna (Italy)

Stichting CentERdata (The Netherlands)

University College London (Centre for Longitudinal Studies/CLS and Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources/CLOSER) (United Kingdom)

Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen - KNAW (Generations and Gender Programme – GGP) (The Netherlands)

GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) (Germany)

Ipsos GmbH (Germany)

TNS UK Ltd (Kantar Public) (Great Britain)

cApStAn SA (Belgium)

BACKGROUND

The availability of longitudinal data to analyse the well-being of children as they grow up and to develop policies to improve their well-being is uneven across Europe. COORDINATE is, therefore, the next phase of the ‘Growing Up in Digital Europe’ (GUIDE) project funded by Horizon 2020 in recognition that policymakers across Europe are currently unable to draw upon consistent, comparable and high-quality data on child well-being to inform policy.

The aspiration to secure the well-being of children and young people is explicit in Grand Challenges such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The EU has similarly highlighted the importance of securing the future of children and young people. It has become accepted that inequalities must be thought of longitudinally and not regarded as static events unrelated to prior events and future likelihoods. Despite this, the availability of longitudinal data to analyse the well-being of children as they grow up and, therefore, to develop policies to improve their well-being is currently uneven across Europe.

AIMS

COORDINATE aims to fill the gaps in the availability of robust and suitable data for the monitoring and evaluation of child well-being in Europe by:

Facilitating improved access to existing survey data on child well-being
Extending the Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE/Eurocohort) survey network
Initiating the GUIDE survey with a large-scale cohort pilot survey using a harmonised instrument and research design in key European countries

METHODS

Webinars, summer schools, and grants for trans-national visits to facilitate improved access to existing survey data
Network development activities
Large-scale cohort pilot survey in 4 countries

ACTIVITIES/MILESTONES

The European Centre’s tasks in the project will entail:

Facilitating access to the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) by hosting international researchers and providing training on data extraction, processing, analysis and data visualisation
Network development to help deepen the knowledge and capacity for the use of international birth cohort panel survey data and build the expertise and operational capacity required for implementing the GUIDE survey in Europe