Call for Abstracts: 3rd International User Conference of the German Family Demography Panel Study - FREDA, 20 & 21 October 2025 in Wiesbaden, Germany
The third international FReDA User Conference will be held in Wiesbaden, Germany, on 20 and 21 October 2025. We invite submissions from national and international researchers from all disciplines using data from the German Family Demography Panel Study FReDA and/or the adjunctive German Family Panel (pairfam) and the Generations and Gender Survey (GGS). The conference will be held in English.
The goals of the FReDA User Conference are to provide both early-career and experienced researchers with a forum in which to present preliminary results, receive comments and feedback from experienced data users and staff, and facilitate future collaborations. Interested researchers are invited to submit an abstract for a presentation by email to freda@bib.bund.de.
Abstracts should be no longer than one DIN-4 page and must include the title of the presentation and the names, email addresses, and institutional affiliations of all authors. Please state the data used, the research question(s), the theoretical background, the method, as well as first results.
The submission deadline is 9 May 2025.
Acceptance will be communicated by 23 May 2025. Depending on the number of submissions, the reviewer team may assign some submissions to an additional poster session. The FReDA User Conference will be held in person. There will be no conference fee. Catering for lunch breaks and coffee breaks will be provided. Travel costs cannot be reimbursed. Further information about the conference can be found here. The best conference presentation will be selected by a jury and will receive an award.