DEMSCORE: research infrastructure for Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social policy, Conflict, and Representation. Phase II

DEMSCORE (acronym for research infrastructure for Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social policy, Conflict, and Representation) is now about to make Sweden the Atacama of the social sciences advancing national and international research on complex societal challenges facing Sweden and the world, including how to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

DEMSCORE will thus enable and accelerate large-scale comparative analyses on the grand challenges of today’s societies.

DEMSCORE is promising to become the leading global center for the provision of curated contextual time-series data across a large number of countries, by: 1) building a world-leading hub for contextual data based on a first-rate e-infrastructure with user-friendly access to data, documentation, and online visualization tools; and 2) securing and expanding Sweden’s world-leading role in methodological development in this field, through harmonizing gold-standard protocols of data collection, processing, provision and documentation; with 3) an active outreach program to both the academic and policy/practitioners’ communities.

Vetenskapsrådet (VR) approved funding for DEMSCORE in 2019, but initially only for the joint Modules 1 through 6.

This application “DEMSCORE Phase II” is for completing the infrastructure by securing the underlying infrastructures and databases in Module 7 through 12.

Without long-term support, these modules will not continue providing the necessary new and updated data, and thus risk making DEMSCORE itself obsolete.