World Values Survey Association

🌍 Welcome to the WVS Webinar Series 2026!
We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming webinar:

📌 Trust in a Changing World: Social Cohesion and the Social Contract in Uncertain Times
🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GUtCib7rRfOx-p__yAMW7A
📅 April 8, 2026
🕒 12:00 UTC | 14:00 Vienna | 15:00 Helsinki
👤 Speaker: Professor Patricia Justino (UNU-WIDER, Finland)

This webinar explores how declining interpersonal and institutional trust is reshaping social cohesion and governance worldwide. Drawing on World Values Survey data, it highlights key drivers of trust erosion and why rebuilding trust is essential for sustainable development.

Full paper: https://www.wider.unu.edu/publication/trust-changing-world

Data from all 31 participating countries in Round 11 (2023/24) of our survey is now available. The new file includes data from Estonia 🇪🇪 and Ukraine 🇺🇦 for the first time, alongside 28 other countries.

Round 11 of the survey was fielded in 30 countries using face-to-face interviews and one country – Czechia 🇨🇿 – using self-completion modes. As well as questions fielded in every round, Round 11 included items on gender attitudes and health.