6th International CILS4EU User Conference

This conference aims to bring together a constantly growing group of data users working on a variety of topics from different research areas in several countries. We welcome contributions that use of the CILS4EU data or any of the natonal follow-up studies. Papers can be single-country studies or cross-country comparative work, cross-sectional or longitudinal studies. Participants have the opportunity to present their ongoing or completed work, receive comments, and share their experiences with the CILS4EU data. It is the best opportunity to get in touch with other CILS4EU data users and the German and Swedish CILS4EU research teams.

If you want to present your work at the conference, please submit an abstract (maximum 500 words) by July 31st, 2025 to cils4eu@mzes.uni-mannheim.de. Submissions will be reviewed, and authors will receive a notification about the acceptance decision mid-August.

There is no participation fee for the conference. This conference is jointly organized by the Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Stockholm, the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University, and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim.

We look forward to seeing you!

Please note: The call for papers is closed. If you want to attend the conference without presenting, send us an email to cils4eu@mzes.uni-mannheim.de.