Third International FReDA User Conference

Call for Abstracts: On 20 & 21 October 2025, the Third International FReDA User Conference will take place in Wiesbaden and we invite you to present your analyses based on FReDA data (and/or the relationship and family panel pairfam and/or the Generations and Gender Survey GGS). National and international researchers from all disciplines are welcome.

You can download the Call for Abstracts here.

Deadline for submissions is May 9, 2025

Relevant research topics could include, among others: Family planning, fertility, parenting, partnerships, gender roles and the division of paid and unpaid work among couples, attitudes towards family and gender roles, intergenerational relationships, mental health and individual well-being, families during the COVID-19 pandemic, and methodological issues in panel and survey research.

Interested researchers are invited to submit the 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 as well as the names, e-mail addresses and institutional affiliations of all authors. Please also include the data set used, the research question(s), the theoretical background, the method and initial results.

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the FReDA User Conference is 9 May 2025 and you will be notified of acceptance by 23 May 2025. Depending on the number of submissions, the review team may assign some submissions to an additional poster session. The best conference presentation will be selected by a jury and awarded a prize.

Forum for lively exchange and feedback

The aim of the FReDA User Conference is to provide a forum for both early career and experienced researchers to present preliminary results, receive comments and feedback from experienced data users and collaborators, and facilitate future collaborations.

Prof. Dr Jutta Mata (University of Mannheim) and Prof. Dr Katharina Wrohlich (DIW Berlin, University of Potsdam) will deliver the keynote speeches at the FReDA User Conference.

The user conference will be face-to-face and held in English. Catering will be provided for lunch and coffee breaks. No conference fee will be charged, travelling expenses cannot be reimbursed.

Past conferences have demonstrated the potential of the data sets

The findings presented at the first and second FReDA user conferences have already impressively demonstrated the exciting analyses that are possible with the FReDA data sets. They provided a forum for lively discussions and an intensive scientific exchange on family demographic research.

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