gfs.bern
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1959 (as Swiss Society for Practical Social Research), 1986 (as GfS Research Institute), 2004 (as an independent AG) |
| Seat | Bern, Switzerland |
| management | Urs Bieri and Lukas Golder |
| Number of employees | 14th |
| Branch | Political and communication research |
| Website | www.gfsbern.ch |
The gfs.berne (Society for Social Research) is a private institute for applied research in the areas of policy and communication in Switzerland . The company employs fourteen people in research (2018) The surveys are carried out by the GfS survey service.
Company history
The company has existed as an independent stock corporation since January 1st, 2004. Together with gfs.zürich AG, the company has an equal share in the gfs survey service AG, founded in 2001, which provides the demoscopic services of both institutes. Previously, all three companies were united in the GfS Research Institute, which belonged to the Swiss Society for Practical Social Research . This was founded in 1959 to promote social research in Switzerland. It had maintained a secretariat since the 1970s that carried out research projects itself. In 1986 this was legalized as a stock corporation and has since formed the GfS Research Institute. In 1998 it was reorganized and divided into two independent business areas, Zurich and Bern, before they finally became independent as joint stock companies in 2004.
The founder of gfs.bern, Claude Longchamp , sold his company to the employees Urs Bieri and Lukas Golder in 2016. Longchamp will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2019.
Products
The best-known products from the field of politics are the VOX analysis in cooperation with the political science institutes of the universities of Bern, Geneva and Zurich and the election barometer commissioned by SRG SSR as well as the trend studies prior to voting for the same client. In the analysis of direct democracy, the institute director Claude Longchamp has made a name for himself in particular .
In the area of communication, the institute determines the worry barometer and the youth barometer on behalf of Credit Suisse and conducts e-government and e-health research .
criticism
Studies by gfs.bern often receive a lot of media attention and are therefore repeatedly discussed in an adversarial manner. The German-Syrian political scientist and Islamic scholar Bassam Tibi ( Göttingen ) accused the GfS, two years before the publication of the criticized study, of being "instrumentalized" for political and ideological favoritism surveys on behalf of Islamist lobby organizations. The co-head of gfs.bern, Lukas Golder, contradicts the claims in another article
Memberships
Gfs.bern is a member of the industry associations vsms and esomar .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History / GfS. In: website of gfs.bern.
- ↑ Generation change at GfS Bern: Longchamp sold. In: Balance . June 16, 2016.
- ↑ This is how the institute asked gfs.bern. In: SRF . 18th August 2017.
- ↑ Claude Longchamp, Head of gfs.bern, on the most important pro / con arguments. ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: SRF. August 16, 2012 (video; 0:35 min).
- ↑ Analysis by Claude Longchamp (gfs.bern). ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: SRF. November 28, 2010 (video; 4:17 min).
- ↑ Claude Longchamp, director of the gfs.bern, on the anti-minaret initiative. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: SRF. November 18, 2009 (video; 18:49 min).
- ↑ survey. A new national pride. In: Tages-Anzeiger . December 11, 2012.
- ↑ Flexible, hands-on and value conservative. In: Tages-Anzeiger. October 31, 2012.
- ^ Multi- layered division in Switzerland over the pension reform. In: website of gfs.bern. Early September 2017.
- ↑ Bassam Tibi in: “ The hidden Islamization of Europe ” , Basler Zeitung, October 11, 2016
- ↑ Lukas Golder in: The cooperation with the UETD was very professional, and our scientific independence was never questioned ” , Blick, September 13th. 2018
