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The survey
The Growing Up In Digital Europe (GUIDE) / EuroCohort survey will be Europe’s first comparative birth cohort survey on child well-being. It will be an important source of high quality longitudinal statistical evidence to support the development of social policies which will enhance the wellbeing of children, young people and their families across Europe for many years to come.
Research
Today, few data exist to assess the child well-being situation in Europe in comparison to rest of the world. The GUIDE/EuroCohort survey aims to fill in all these gaps and to conduct a large longitudinal European survey that is comparable between countries.
- Child well-being in the European Union
- Current activities
Families section
This section is dedicated to the parents and children who participate in the GUIDE/EuroCohort survey. What is the progress of the project? What are your rights in terms of data protection? What are the next steps? Information will be regularly updated to inform you.

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.

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