29 November 2010
Successful Final User Community Conference  Brussels, 18-19 November 2010

The Final User Conference of the PIREDEU Design Study evaluated the PIREDEU pilot study and its added value for the European social science community and other stakeholders. Experts from the PIREDEU community were invited to employ the data collected in the pilot studies. Apart from 37 paper presentations in ten different thematic panels, the conference also offered training sessions on the PIREDEU integrated database. The conference was held in parallel with the annual dissemination conference of the European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO). More than 150 experts from the PIREDEU community, representatives of each of the EUDO Observatories and other experts, policy-makers, civil-society representatives and media exponents took part in the two events.
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26 November 2010
PIREDEU Brochure on project results published  

The PIREDEU Design Study has published an 8-pages summary of its achievements so far. The brochure provides information on the data collection results and its aim to assess the feasibility of an upgrade to the European Election Studies that will provide an infrastructure for research into citizenship, political participation, and electoral democracy in the European Union (EU).
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