Nancy Faeser takes over patronage of FReDA

With Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, FReDA gets a very important and prominent political supporter: "I am pleased to be able to take over the patronage of such a lighthouse project of population research, said Faeser.

One of FReDA's central tasks is to provide policy advice. With the data collected, the current analyses and findings, the project provides an important basis for present-day political decisions. Minister of the Interior Faeser emphasises the immense importance of the project for politics: "The long-term study FReDA will provide us with important, regularly updated information about the reality of families' lives and thereby depicts the regions and the diversity of our society in a differentiated manner. This data will help us with measures to strengthen social cohesion and also to strengthen the labour force potential in times of demographic change. This long-term study is of great value both for science and for political action."

The project manager of FReDA, Prof. Dr. Martin Bujard, agrees with this assessment: "A long-term data infrastructure project like FReDA is central to enable the study of societal developments and causal relationships."

The Director of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Prof. Dr. C. Katharina Spieß, emphasises the importance of robust foundations for evidence-based policy measures: "The patronage of the Minister is an important milestone for the FReDA project as well as for family demographic research as a pillar of future-oriented social policy as a whole. Studying changes in families, especially in times of upheaval, is very exciting for many family researchers. Policymakers need resilient foundations in order to develop evidence-based policy measures, also in the face of demographic change."