V-Dem Institute
Budget
€1,390,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
1.5 FTE
EU Grants
€121,772
Mission & Goals
As Headquarters for the international V-Dem project to supply academics, policymakers and practitioners, students, journalists, and the general public with annually updated, world-leading and state-of-the-art data and research on democracy and autocracy, and related areas for 202 countries in the world. • Be a leading international actor in state-of-the-art research on the causes and consequences of democracy, autocracy, democratization, and autocratization and attract large, competitive and prestigious grants for that purpose. • Provide evidence of the latest trends on democracy and autocracy in the world in the annual Democracy Report, evidence on the dividends of democracy, as well as in related areas. • Pursue active outreach out to policy-, practitioners-, and implementers communities to support actors working for a more democratic and freer world.
EU Legislative Interests
European Democracy Action Plan V-Dem produces data on trends with regards to democratization and autocratization, making it a leading research institute in the field. With our policy briefs we mainly target EU's democracy support agenda as well the SDGs. -EU Democracy Action Plan (protecting free and fair elections and European Media Freedom Act, counter disinformation) -EU's 2030 Agenda and SDG 16
Communication Activities
We produce policy briefs, working papers and reports and we collaborate closely with others (for instance International IDEA), the Carnegie and so on in promoting knowledge on democracy. We have worked with the INTPA to produce a series of reports on the 'Case for Democracy', showing how democracy outperforms autocracy on a series of economic and human development indicators. We deliver data to the Risk Management Framework every year, and produce select policy briefs.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
V-Dem Institute is part of University of Gothenburg, Department of Political Science & a member of Demscore, a consortium that makes a national research infrastructure.
Organisation Members
EU Democracy Hub (collaboration) European Partnership for Democracy (collaborations on seminars etc) International IDEA (providing data, collaborations on seminars etc) Mo Ibrahim Foundation (funding, providing data) EC, DG4, International partneships (funding, providing data & analysis) FAU /Katrin Kinzelbach (research collaboration, funding) Article 19 (provision of data, technical support on index constructions) Our World in Data (provision of data)
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.