HEPP research group introduces the current research conducted in European Commission funded research groups and in the Finnish Research Council co-funded consortium in the European Parliament Elections in 2024. This is an effort that covers ten countries around Europe: France, Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Finland and Sweden.
These insights are compared to the research on the 2019 European elections published in Juha Herkman and Emilia Palonen's edited volume Populism, Twitter and the European Public Sphere: Social Media Communication in the EP elections 2019 that came out in April 2024.
Wednesday June 12 at 10:00-11:30
On-site location: Swedish School of Social Science, Snellmaninkatu 12, Helsinki, Room 234
Coffee 10:00 - 10:15
Talks and discussion: 10:15-11:00
Open discussion: 11:00-11:30
Register for onsite coffee by 14:00 Tuesday 11 June.
Speakers: Emilia Palonen and researchers from the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation studying and collecting data from the ten European countries, such as Kleber Carrilho (Portugal), Szilvia Horváth (Hungary), Katinka Linnanmäki (Hungary), Alexander Alekseev (Poland), Viljami Vaarala (Sweden) on site, and Nina Boy (Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany), Nathanaël Colin-Jaeger (American University of Paris, France), Ruzha Smilova (Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria), Ana Matan (Zagreb University, Croatia).
The event is held In the Soc&Kom building of the center campus and online.
The projects ENDURE (Research Council of Finland for Trans-Atlantic Partnerships), PLEDGE and CO3 are collaborating in this task. As it is co-funded by the European Union: Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or [name of the granting authority]. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.