These days, ESS is best known as an abbreviation of European Spallation Source, the major accelerator facility that Sweden and a number of other states are competing to host. However, for humanists and social scientists, ESS primarily means European Social Survey. Thirty European countries collaborate in this major infrastructural project and more than 150,000 individual interviews have been performed. The aim of ESS is to study and map changing attitudes, values and behaviour patterns betwee...

RJ’s website has received a substantial facelift. We have upgraded the technology and changed the appearance of the site. Furthermore, we have expanded the content. I hope that our visitors like what they see and read and that they will find it easier to locate what they are looking for. We would like to tell you a little bit more about the research RJ supports, the results the grants have helped to bring about and the new questions that have been raised during the course of the project...