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Monitoring Electoral Democracy
The European infrastructure for unlocking the true potential of data-driven democracy research.
Monitoring Electoral Democracy (MEDem) is a new, evolving European research infrastructure that will enable better, more comprehensive, and highly innovative comparative democracy research on electoral democracies by bringing together and linking data sources on the functioning of democracies, and by building standards and instruments for data collection and analysis.

Supporting Community
European scholars, (inter)national research groups, networks, institutions, infrastructures & everyone who supports MEDem becomes part of the growing MEDem Community.
MEDem Conference & Workshop 2023
From 30th to 31st of March, the first MEDem Conference & Workshop took place at the University of Vienna, bringing together scholars from 37 institutions and 23 countries to discuss the future of democracy research and the development of the MEDem research infrastructure.


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The first seminar of the @NES_Consortium is approaching! The topic is mixed-mode surveys and presenters are the PIs of the Danish and Polish NES. Any one interested in survey research is warmely welcome. See how to register ⬇️
It was great to welcome you and talk about the @ESFRI_eu research infrastructure landscape, Ukraine, and new initiatives like @MEDem_ERI
investigadores que trabajen sobre democracia, elecciones, partidos, líderes, campañas, o medios desde la ciencia política, la comunicación la sociología u otras disciplinas, pueden apoyar la iniciativa @MEDem_ERI para construir una infraestructura europea http://medem.eu