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Monitoring Electoral Democracy: The European infrastructure for unlocking the true potential of data-driven democracy research. medem.eu 🔍 🌐
✨ Two inspiring days at the #MEDemConference wrapped up with our #MEDemBoD meeting!

A big thank you to @gesis.org for hosting us in Cologne — and for the chance to meet one of the city’s most famous residents: Die Maus, star of the legendary German TV show "Die Sendung mit der Maus". 🐭🎉
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Day 2 of the #MEDemConference at @gesis.org starts with powerful tool demos:
🔍 AmCAT @sof14g1l.bsky.social on enabling large-scale text analysis of media & political debates.
🌐 HarDIS @sziaja.bsky.social on harmonizing and sustaining cross-national democracy data (surveys, parties, experts).
September 30, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Next at the #MEDemConference – @LorenzoDeSio presents his vision for the #MEDemServiceGatewayHub 🌐 – featuring #ATLAS, our living encyclopedia designed to make democracy data findable, comparable, reusable, and linkable. Discover more about our #MEDemTools 👉 link in bio!
September 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🚀 Kicking off day 1 of the 3rd #MEDemConference at @gesis.org! From @sldelange.bsky.social discussing radical-right normalization 🗳️ to calls to consolidate democracy data by @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social 📊 — keynotes spotlight why #MEDem matters for democracy.
September 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
They say: once there’s a paper 📝, it’s real…
🎉 #MEDem in #EPS @ecpr.bsky.social

The paper outlines how MEDem will strengthen #OpenScience by making data #FAIR in #DemocracyResearch – and how scholars across Europe are joining forces to build a truly open #ResearchInfrastructure ⚙️
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We are delighted that the new “Hightech Agenda Deutschland” by the #BMFTR recognizes the importance of strengthening data infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities – and explicitly mentions #MEDem. ⚙️📊

Full source here: www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/P...
August 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Sunny & productive days in Amsterdam! ☀️ The MEDem Infrastructure’s Service Center for Text & Multimedia Data 📚📺📱gathered for a 2-day workshop to discuss services & put plans into action. Important steps forward - one step at a time! ⚙️📊 #MEDem #DemocracyResearch #EuropeanInfrastructure #DataScience
July 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🎉 We are excited to announce the #MEDemConference2025 keynote speakers:

@sldelange.bsky.social & @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social — leading experts in European #DemocracyResearch!

Looking forward to their insights & fruitful discussions!

📅 29–30 Sept 2025
📍 GESIS, Cologne
June 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🔗⚙️ Excited to announce a new #MoU between #MEDem & @icpsr.bsky.social! Partnering to tackle #ICT -related challenges & support data-driven #DemocracyResearch worldwide. 🌐📊 Read more on the MEDemBlog: www.medem.eu/mou-icpsr/
May 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We're proud to see #MEDem mentioned in the latest @jcms-eu.bsky.social article by Richard Whitaker, @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social & @kgattermann.bsky.social! The authors call for coordinated survey design—ideally within the MEDem framework—to better link data across studies and time. 📊🔗🇪🇺
April 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🤝Joining forces for #DemocracyResearch! #MEDem has started collaborations with leading European SSH research infrastructures: @ess-survey.bsky.social , @cessda.bsky.social, @ggp.bsky.social, #SHARE-ERIC, and #CLARIN-ERIC! 👉 Read more about this on our blog: www.medem.eu/joining-forc...
April 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
As we prepare to submit our #ESFRI application, #MEDem has reached an incredible milestone—over 1,000 personal endorsements! 🤩🎉
A heartfelt thank you to all democracy scholars from Europe and beyond for supporting us on our journey towards shaping the future of #data-driven #DemocracyResearch! 📊✨
March 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In about a month, we submit our application for the ESFRI Roadmap 🇪🇺
Help us reach 1,000 researchers by showing your support here: forms.gle/dm8K4xFgXD9b...
⚙️ Regardless, we’re sure you’ll find MEDem’s tools & services useful once they’re live. We’re already working on first prototypes this year! 🏗️📊
March 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🌟 Another milestone for #MEDem! We’re now backed by 900+ #democracyresearchers worldwide! 🌍
🙌 Let’s keep the momentum going and reach 1,000 soon!
It only takes a minute to sign 👉 www.medem.eu/medem-endorsements
February 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
🌍 This week, the #MEDem Steering Committee gathered in Vienna for a highly productive 2-day workshop—the final meeting before the #ESFRI roadmap submission! 🚀
Huge thanks to everyone who participated and contributed to this inspiring final push. Onwards to the finish line! 💪✨ #DemocracyResearch
January 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
✨ Happening now: @jamoeberl.bsky.social presents #MEDem as an evolving European #ResearchInfrastructure for #DemocracyData 🗳️, showcasing the first prototypes of #MEDemTools 🛠️ to an interdisciplinary audience at the Technical University of Vienna 🏫.

#DemocracyResearch #DataLinkage #ERI
January 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🌍📊 #MEDem will facilitate comparative #DemocracyResearch by harmonizing data on countries, institutions, parties, politicians, media, and voters – making it easier to link #DemocracyData across actors, space, and time 🔗.

Discover more at medem.eu and join the #MEDemCommunity! 🚀
January 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Great discussions at the recent MEDem Workshop in Lausanne with brilliant minds from Political Science and Communication Science! Hosted by FORS, we worked hard to gear up for the final phase of the ESFRI meeting. #MEDem #ESFRI #DemocracyResearch 🔗
December 16, 2024 at 1:26 PM
🌟 Incredible news: We hit another milestone! #MEDem is now supported by 800+ #democracy researchers from all around the world! 🌍 🙌 Join them! It only takes a minute to sign 👉 www.medem.eu/medem-endors...
December 4, 2024 at 1:41 PM
We are proud to have outstanding scholars like Gary Marks & Liesbet Hooghe among the nearly 800 researchers endorsing #MEDem! 🎉🌍
Join our growing #MEDemcommunity and support our mission to make democracy research more accessible 🌐, linkable 🔗, & reusable ♻️—it only takes a minute 👉 t.co/duA24LQtRf
November 25, 2024 at 12:20 PM
✨ At our first #MEDem Conference, Åsa von Schoultz (University of Helsinki) stressed the critical need for comparative research to address the challenges democracies face—challenges that remain deeply relevant in today’s political climate! 🎬✨ #MEDem will enable this essential #democracy #research!
November 11, 2024 at 10:42 AM
🌍🔬 MEDem Community Survey! 🔬🌍

To better understand your personal needs, motivations, and expectations as researchers in the #MEDem #Community, we are conducting a short survey. It only takes 4 minutes!

📋 Share Your Voice here: unipark.de/uc/medem-use...

Thank you! 🙏
September 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
"Having a well-oiled data structure is never a bad thing!" - Joseph Phillips, Cardiff University

✨ Thank you to over 700 researchers for supporting MEDem. 🙌 Want to join them? It only takes a minute to sign up! 👉 t.co/duA24LQtRf
September 16, 2024 at 8:38 AM
🔍 Discover benefits MEDem offers to democracy researchers in this insightful video by @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social and others: shorturl.at/Uv0p2

🙌 Show your support for MEDem: t.co/duA24LQtRf

#DemocracyResearch 🗳️ #DataScience 📊 #ResearchInnovation 💡 #OpenData 🛠️ #DataLinkage 🔗
September 10, 2024 at 11:42 AM
We have reached another great milestone today! 🎉 650+ scholars support #MEDem! Join them:
twtr.to/GUo7L
August 1, 2024 at 2:06 PM