Funding

The COORDINATE project (COhort cOmmunity Research and Development Infrastructure Network for Access Throughout Europe) has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. It aims to mobilise the community of researchers and organisations that will drive forwards the coordinated development of comparative birth cohort panel and associated survey research in Europe which focus on children’s well-being. COORDINATE support the preparatory phase of the GUIDE / EuroCohort survey, through a Pïlote survey within 5 countries (Croatia, Finland, France, Ireland and Slovenia), which took place in 2023. 27 partners from 18 countries are already mobilised.

The GuidePrep project (Growing Up In Digital Europe PREparatory Phase) takes over and will allow the development of all the research infrastructure necessary for the implementation of the GUIDE/EuroCohort survey. This preparatory work will take place across 2022 to 2025. GuidePrep will allow, among other things, to secure financial commitments from Member States and Associated Countries, to develop the GUIDE survey methodology, or to increase the scientific and policy impact of this survey.

In order to fund the GUIDE/EuroCohort survey, each country needs to find funding at the national level. 
France has already secured funding from the French Life History Observatory (LifeObs) to prepare for the actual survey, scheduled for 2027.
LifeObs is a research infrastructure aimed at developing innovative longitudinal survey programmes on family behaviour, improving the dissemination of data, as well as training new and existing users of data.
To find out more about LifeObs, click here.