Projects

In April 2024, during a meeting involving over 60 representatives from national research infrastructures, the Swiss nodes of European ERICs and long-term projects launched the “Social Science and [...]

The project will perform an analysis of best practices in ORD recognition based on (a) a literature review and (b) the discussions on the use of ORD in research assessment […]

The Covid Generation research project The Covid Generation is a collaborative project involving researchers from FORS, the University of Lausanne and the University of Neuchâtel. It examines [...]

The Consortium of National Election Studies (CNES) is the network of scientific national election studies that conduct voter surveys for national general elections. CNES promotes the exchange of [...]

Research team: Laura Bernardi (Unil), Chiara Comolli (Unil), Marieke Voorpostel (Fors), Ariane Pailhé (Ined), Emmanuelle Cambois (Ined) Health and well-being are not equally distributed in [...]

The University of Lausanne funds a joint research programme that involves many researchers from FORS and the Faculty for Social and Political Sciences (SSP). This collaboration resulted in a [...]

At the international level, FORS is engaged in the establishment and development of European research infrastructure. These activities are important to connect Switzerland to European research [...]

The aim of the study is to determine the public’s mood, level of knowledge and attitudes with regard to human research and human research law, as well as their willingness […]

The main objective of the Swiss Household Panel is to observe social change, in particular the dynamics of changing living conditions and representations in the population of Switzerland. It is [...]

The Swiss Electoral Studies (Selects) have been investigating the electoral behaviour of Swiss citizens in national elections since 1995. The project sheds light on the dynamics of the Swiss [...]