The aim of the research was to examine the attitude and perception of the diverse target groups that are in the focus of the project, namely young people, representatives from the educational, social and business sector and migrants. The international team of researchers tried to identify and analyse the threats and opportunities that the EU is facing nowadays and to give a reflection of the social processes undergoing in the European society that provoke Euroscepticism, Europhobia and mistrust in EU policies and shared values. The researchers had identified the reasons for all those tendencies. The positive common finding is that young people accept themselves as Europeans and do not put priority over their national identity. Most of the people above 35 believe that the EU has influenced their lives in a positive way and that the benefits of being part of the EU are numerous. The findings from the research in each country were presented in a separate document.
THE METHODOLOGY The methodology consisted of collecting information through several research instruments – questionnaires, detailed interviews and focus groups.
QUESTIONNAIRES An online questionnaire was developed and translated into all the national partners’ languages. Each researcher team have to collect at least 500 questionnaires 100 per target group. A common scenario with a possible set of questions was developed by the researchers. As a result, more than 3700 questionnaires were filled in by the representatives of the different target groups.
DETAILED INTERVIEWS Each partner country was in charge of collect 15 detailed interviews from the 5 target groups mentioned 3 per target group (altogether 105 detailed interviews) were done and the information analysed in the respective country research.
FOCUS GROUPS A common scenario for the focus groups was developed. Each country team organised 5 focus groups 1 per each target group of the project (altogether 35 focus groups) were held involving more than 280 people.
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You can find each analysis by clicking on the country flags. For the comparative analysis please, click the European flag.
