Special Eurobarometer 265: Medical and health research

The Directorate General for Research commissioned the Eurobarometer special study on medical and health research. The study was carried out between 7 June and 12 July 2006 among 24,796 people in the 25 European Union Member States as well as in the acceding countries (Bulgaria and Romania). In Turkey and Croatia, the study was carried out between 17 November and 19 December among 2,005 respondents that same year. The study’s aims were in particular: - to measure the level of awareness among European citizens of European collaborative research projects on biological and medical issues and their awareness of European Union co-funding. Furthermore the study sought to put this information in the more general context of citizens´ interest in science and technology and biological and medical research, also taking into account personal and socio-economic factors; - to identify factors which raise awareness of European collaborative research projects on biological and medical issues and of European co-funding, - to generally contribute to improving the strategy of promoting those research projects which are funded by the European Union. Furthermore, in the last part of this study we analyse three different groups of citizens: - those aware of European biological and medical research projects and the fact that they are co-funded by the EU, -those not aware of the projects but who are interested in the field of science and medical research, - those not aware of the projects and who also have no interest in the field of science and medical research. #####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](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)