LimeSurvey

What is the SSH CENTRE project?

The SSH CENTRE (Social Sciences & Humanities for Climate, Energy aNd Transport Research Excellence) project aims to generate best practices for incorporating Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) research into policies to address climate change.

One objective of the SSH CENTRE project is to enable a better representation of SSH research from different European regions. In particular, disparities remain in terms of participation in research collaborations between the Western/Northern parts of Europe and Southern, Central and Eastern European countries.

What is this Call for Evidence for?

SSH CENTRE is currently running this Call for Evidence survey to gather the views of researchers who have worked in Southern and Central Eastern Europe (now or in the past) with experience working in or with SSH disciplines related to climate, energy and mobility topics.

Insights from this Call for Evidence will be discussed at two workshops with climate-energy-mobility SSH researchers in early 2023 to create a Position Statement which will be submitted to the European Commission (Directorate-General for Research & Innovation) on how SSH in Southern and Central Eastern Europe can be better supported.

How long will it take and what will you ask me?

The Call is intentionally designed to be quick and easy to complete (only 3 sections) taking approximately 10-20 minutes.

Within the survey, you will be asked for the following personal data: Age, Gender, Countries where you have lived/worked/studied, Experiences, Opinions, Employment experience. Our general privacy notice explaining our use of your personal data for research purposes is available here: https://sshcentre.eu/data-protection-policy. Responses will be anonymised unless you indicate you would be interested in being contacted about the workshops taking place in March 2023. Should you have any questions about this Call for Evidence, or the SSH CENTRE project more broadly, please contact Viktor Varjú (varju.viktor@krtk.hu, survey supervisor).

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101069529 and from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant No 10038991].

Eligibility and consent statements for the survey

1. I am a researcher (self-defined) with experience of studying or working in or with Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines (for the purposes of this survey this includes Business, Communication Studies, Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Social Science, Gender, History, Human Geography, Law, Philosophy, Planning, Politics, Psychology, Science & Tech. Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Policy, Sociology, Theology and Ethics).
2. I have spent some time studying at postgraduate level or working as a researcher in a country in Central Eastern or Southern Europe (for the purposes of this survey this includes Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czechia, Cyprus, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Israel, Ukraine).
3. I have experience of studying or working in climate, energy and/or mobility.
4. I am over 18 years old.
5. I am happy for information submitted in this form to be quoted anonymously in publicly available online reports. Details about organisations or locations may also be included, but every effort will be made to ensure that individuals cannot be identified.
6. Data protection 1: I agree to CERS processing personal data which I have supplied. Personal data will be held for a maximum of 3 years after the end of the project (i.e. up until the end of February 2029), after which time it will be destroyed.
7. Data protection 2: I understand that data may be shared with SSH CENTRE project partners, some of whom are based outside of the EU, but all of whom are contractually bound to abide by EU data protection law.