The aim of our research group is to create a workshop that brings together reliable, data-driven quantitative research conducted in the interest of the common good and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Drawing on the principles of the international Data for Good and CorrelAid movements, we aim to contribute with our knowledge and data analysis work.

Our goal is also to improve data literacy in society and to promote evidence-based decision-making, while simultaneously avoiding the promotion of data fetishism or data fundamentalism. A key mission of ours is to highlight the ontological and epistemological foundations of data-driven decisions, and when necessary, their shortcomings, to both the scientific community and interested parties outside of it, with the aim of developing critical data-reading and data-interpretation skills. Our professional principles include adherence to strict research ethics and methodological standards, open knowledge management, transparency, and reproducibility.

The founders of the research group are Annamária Tátrai, Renáta Németh, Anikó Gregor, and Melinda Szöllősi.

For studies on poverty and social inequality, our strategic partner is TÁRKI Social Research Institute., while in the research on active lifestyles, we work with the State Secretariat for Active Hungary and the Hungarian University of Sport Science. In our research on end-of-life care, we collaborated with the Pallium Institute.