The Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Center of Excellence together with ESS ERIC is announcing a Call for Papers for the ESS Budapest Conference entitled European societies through the lens of the European Social Survey. The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers, analysts and policy makers to share and discuss scholarly research and analyses based on data of the European Social Survey, especially but not exclusively to topics covered by its last, ninth survey round. The conference aims to provide forum for papers that analyse the state of and changes in societies in Europe.