The Horizon Europe Program

SOC-MISC, standing for “Social inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of Miscarriage” is the first research study of its kind. 

One in four women experiences miscarriage in her lifetime. We know little about how social disparities affect this risk miscarriage, how miscarriage can exacerbate existing social inequalities in health across a population, or how context shapes these experiences.

The project will lead to a better understanding of this common reproduction-related experience known to affect mental and physical wellbeing, and will help policymakers improve public and reproductive health. 

One MSCA-supported research is REMEDY, which works to determine the role of online disinformation in resistance to epidemiological measures to contain disease propagation and the impact of such resistance on mortality. 

Drawing on available observation data, new digital recordings of human interactions, and social science methodology, REMEDY purports to enrich current debate on non-compliance with measures designed to combat the spread of COVID-19 by empirically establishing two distinct connections: 1) the effect of public resistance to epidemiological measures for containing the spread of the disease on hospitalizations and excess mortality; the effect of online disinformation on behavioral opposition to such measures.

The IPOV-RESPECTFUL CARE—"International Platform on Obstetric Violence: an innovative tool for respectful maternity and childbirth care”—is a  EU research and staff exchange project funded by Horizon Europe’s Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions program. 

The aim is to promote maternity and childbirth care consistent with human and women-centered rights. The project brings together a consortium of 19 organizations based in six European and three Latin American countries. 

The Generations and Gender Program infrastructure (GGP) provides scientists and policymakers with high-quality, up-to-date data on families and individual life courses throughout Europe. These data in turn enable researchers to shed light on related questions and determine responses to societal issues, and to better assess current policies.

INED contributes actively to GGP and conducts the program’s “France” surveys. 

The EuroCohort GUIDE infrastructure project on the wellbeing of children in Europe aims to build up a cohort of children growing up in Europe and collect data on them until they turn 24 in around 2053.

Meanwhile the objective of the GUIDEPREP project (Growing Up in Digital Europe, Preparatory Phase) is to develop the research infrastructure needed to produce the GUIDE birth cohort infrastructure presented above. The goal is to build infrastructure that will run the GUIDE study (with the scheduled launching of a large-scale pilot model in 2026) and to undertake first-wave data collection in 2027.

The availability of longitudinal data on child wellbeing varies with the EU, and such data is currently collected in a only minority of member-states. The EU-funded COORDINATE project aims to increase the use and visibility of these data throughout the European Union. The COORDINATE team is also readying the next phases of the first accelerated transnational European birth cohort survey: the aforementioned “Growing Up in Digital Europe” or GUIDE. COORDINATE encompasses 22 partners from 14 countries and is based on research done for the EU Horizon 2020 “European Cohort Development Project” and 7th Framework Program “Measuring Youth Wellbeing” project.

Cluster 2 encompasses the LINEup project (running from January 2024 to January 2027), which takes a multidisciplinary perspective on academic disparities. The project brings together 12 European institutions based in 6 different countries—Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, and Portugal—and is coordinated by Italy’s Fondazione per la Scuola (Foundation for Primary and Secondary Schooling). LINEup aims to identify the key factors of educational success by mapping and analyzing existing longitudinal data on the scholastic performance of primary and secondary school students aged 6-18.

Cluster 6 encompasses the RURALITIC project (scheduled to run from 2025 to 2029), coordinated by France’s INRAE and 16 partners including INED, and involves rethinking the concept of rurality in order to develop new scientific methodological tools for researching it. The project will produce data, indicators, typologies, and surveys that will open the way for in-depth analysis of contemporary rural dynamics in Europe. These new scientific frames will be used in assessing drivers of rural area attractivity, existing public policy on the subject, and innovative initiatives in rural areas.