The Growing Up in Digital Europe Preparatory Phase (GUIDEPREP) project further develops the research infrastructure (RI) necessary to implement the GUIDE birth cohort study. This preparatory work will take place across 2022 to 2025 to ready the RI for the fullscale piloting of the GUIDE in 2026 and the first full wave of data collection in 2027. Once operational, GUIDE will collect data about individual children growing up in Europe until those children are aged 24-years in approximately 2053. GUIDE will be Europe’s first comparative birth cohort study of children’s and young people’s wellbeing. The aim of the GUIDE study is to track children’s personal wellbeing and development, in combination with key indicators of children’s homes, neighbourhoods, and schools, across Europe. GUIDE will be an accelerated cohort survey including a sample of infants as well as a sample of school age children. Each Member State and Associated Country will provide nationally representative samples that are designed to retain statistical power throughout the lifetime of the study. The harmonized design will create the first internationally comparable, nationally representative, longitudinal study of children and young people in Europe. Currently the GUIDE RI is in its preparatory phase, which involves the establishment of necessary operational procedures and further crystallisation of the study concept and design. To realise the GUIDE full-scale pilot in 2026 and first wave of fieldwork in 2027, the RI needs to develop administratively, technologically, financially, scientifically, and legally. This GUIDEPREP proposal lays out clear aims for these developments in an interlocking system of activities that are shared across consortium partners and managed by the GUIDE leadership team.

The aspiration to secure the wellbeing of children and young people is explicit in Grand Challenges such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. The EU has similarly highlighted the importance of securing the future of children and young people. It has become accepted that inequalities must be thought of longitudinally and not regarded as static events unrelated to prior events and future likelihoods. Policy makers must ensure that they base their policy interventions and adjustments on the best evidence available and this must include, inter alia, cohort survey data. COORDINATE will begin to fill the serious and extensive gaps in the availability of robust and suitable data for the monitoring and evaluation of child wellbeing in Europe. The COORDINATE project brings together 22 partners from 14 countries who will initiate the community of researchers and organisations that will drive forwards the coordinated development of comparative birth cohort panel survey research in Europe. COORDINATE will: • Facilitate improved access to international birth cohort panel and cross-sectional survey data • Extend the consortium network to maximise EU and European coverage for a future Europe wide accelerated birth cohort survey • Undertake joint research in the form of a large-scale cohort pilot survey using a harmonised instrument and research design in key European countries The infrastructural community initiated by COORDINATE will benefit from enhanced access to current infrastructural data platforms, and will promote the harmonisation of and improve access to international cohort panel survey data in the study of children as they grow up. COORDINATE continues the research initiated in the FP7 Measuring Youth Well Being project (GA613368) and the H2020 European Cohort Development Project (GA777449) to prepare the next phases of Europe’s first cross-national accelerated birth cohort survey: EuroCohort - Growing Up in Digital Europe (GUIDE).

Em sociologia a pesquisa biográfica é geralmente centrada na realização de entrevistas nas quais se pede às pessoas que contem a sua história de vida ou experiências numa dada fase e/ou dimensão de existência. Ocasionalmente recorre-se também a materiais secundários como fotografias, cartas, timelines ou calendários de vida para complementar a narrativa. O enfoque é, em ambos os casos, em testemunhos na 1ª pessoa, assumindo que a informação obtida desta forma é a que permite aceder de modo mais direto e fiável às ocorrências e à subjetividade associadas a uma vida. Muito menos explorada está a possibilidade de reconstituir uma biografia não só por essa via, mas também a partir de testemunhos de terceiros, em concreto de pessoas próximas que possam falar sobre as trajetórias do indivíduo em análise e sobre a relação que têm com essa pessoa. Aquilo que se pretende fazer neste projeto é precisamente compreender como é que as biografias podem ser reconstituídas e analisadas a partir de múltiplos testemunhos, numa lógica de triangulação e comparação das fontes de informação. Recorrendo a uma metodologia qualitativa, o objetivo é perceber, através da realização de entrevistas biográficas, como é que a própria pessoa descreve e que sentidos atribui à sua vida, mas também como é que pessoas próximas percebem esse percurso biográfico, o apresentam e o interpretam. Serão analisadas 20 biografias, sendo que cada caso é composto pela entrevista à pessoa nuclear e por cerca de 4 entrevistas a familiares, amigos, colegas ou vizinhos desse indivíduo (de diferentes graus de parentesco, gerações, contextos). Desta forma, é possível combinar a visão que cada pessoa tem de si mesma e da sua biografia com a que os outros significativos têm dessas mesmas experiências. Pretende-se, neste sentido, articular uma perspetiva interna com uma visão externa acerca de uma mesma pessoa e respetivo percurso de vida. Esta estratégia analítica permite estudar a constituição temporal, social e relaci...

The European Cohort Development Project (ECDP) is a Design Study which will create the specification and business case for a European Research Infrastructure that will provide, over the next 25 years, comparative longitudinal survey data on child and young adult well-being. The infrastructure developed by ECDP will subsequently coordinate the first Europe wide cohort survey, named EuroCohort.