Special Eurobarometer 224: Europeans, Science & Technology

The Directorate-General Research wished to commission a new poll on Europeans' experience and perception of science and technology similar to those already conducted in 20021, 20012 and 19923. Interviews were conducted face-to-face in people's homes in their national language between January 3rd and February 15th 2005.
An action plan called "Science and society" was adopted in December 2001 within the European Research Area. Some of the main objectives of this action plan are the following:
• Promoting the scientific education and culture of European citizens
• Bringing scientific policy closer to citizens and strengthening citizen participation in the debates raised by the scientific advances
• Involving more women, who are not sufficiently represented in scientific development
• Strengthening the ethical basis of scientific and technological activities and detecting risks inherent in progress in order to put responsible science at the heart of policy making.

The results by volumes are distributed as follows:

• Volume A: Countries
• Volume AA: Groups of countries
• Volume A' (AP): Trends
• Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries
• Volume B: EU/socio-demographics
• Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics
• Volume C: Country/socio-demographics

Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer