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WHAT IS THE DELPHI METHOD The Delphi method is based on the conviction that a group of experts in a given subject has a greater capacity to make certain forecasts than a single expert considered in isolation. For this reason, this method has a diversity of experts who make the forecasts considered by approximations and through anonymous knowledge of the forecasts of others. That is, the Delphi method is articulated in a complex way in several phases or stages. It is neither a survey nor an analysis or discussion group, but rather it has methodological characteristics and uses qualitative and quantitative approaches at the same time, since it uses specially qualified and individualized people who provide an expert opinion and who are shared in a second phase of the Delphi Surveys. And, at the same time, information is collected that can be computed and contrasted. Therefore, in the end, concrete quantified data is obtained. DELPHI 2021 STUDY ON SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRENDS, SCIENTIFIC-TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS AND TRENDS IN MENTAL HEALTH. The Delphi methodology has been used in this case to determine the probability of certain events and changes occurring, and to evaluate their importance in a time horizon estimated at a decade for major trends, and in more precise periods for each of the innovations. specific conditions considered (horizons 2025, 2030, 2035, 2050). This Prospective Study on Scientific-Technological Trends, Social, Political and Economic Trends, as well as Mental Health, has been based on the application of 7 Delphi Surveys circulated among experts in Human Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Information and Communication Technologies , in Robotics and Advanced Automation, in Economics, in Sociology, in Political Science and in Mental Health. The Delphi methodology has been considered the most appropriate for the purpose of this study, since in each of the major thematic areas addressed, Spain has highly qualified experts who have direct information on the issues considered. As a whole, then, this Delphi Study provides especially useful information to better understand and interpret what is currently happening in our societies and its main trends under the impacts of COVID-19. You can access this study, cataloged with code 11002, from the CIS website by 'Latest studies' or directly through this link 'Study information'. For any questions, the Communication telephone number is 91 580 76 25.

Madrid, December 28, 2021. On December 29 , at 12:30 p.m. , the sixth study on the consequences and effects of the coronavirus on the Spanish population will be available to all media on the website of the Center for Sociological Research (www .cis.es). For any questions, the Communication telephone number is 91 580 76 25.

Madrid, December 20, 2021. On December 21 , at 12:30 p.m. , the "Survey on social trends (I)" will be available to all media on the website of the Center for Sociological Research (www.cis. is). For any questions, the Communication telephone number is 91 580 76 25.

Madrid, December 17, 2021. On December 20 , at 12:30 p.m. , the barometer for the month of December will be available to all media on the website of the Sociological Research Center (www.cis.es). For any questions, the Communication telephone number is 91 580 76 25.

Madrid, December 2, 2021. On December 3 , at 11:30 a.m., the CCI (Consumer Confidence Index) will be available to all media on the website of the Sociological Research Center (www.cis.es) . The ICC collects monthly the assessment of the recent evolution and expectations of Spanish consumers related to their family economy, employment and their savings and consumption possibilities. For any questions, the Communication telephone number is 91 580 76 25.

2021 Award Professor Constanza Tobío Soler receives the National Prize for Sociology and Political Science The Professor of Sociology has focused a good part of her studies on gender sociology, the family-employment relationship and care The award jury bases its decision on a brilliant professional and academic career of more than 40 years Madrid, November 25, 2021. The Professor of Sociology at the Carlos III University, Constanza Tobío Soler, has received the 2021 National Prize for Sociology and Political Science. The jury has based its decision on a brilliant professional and academic career of more than 40 years, in which Tobío has focused a good part of his studies on gender sociology, the family-employment relationship and care. The winner is the daughter of the diplomat, writer and translator Lois Tobío. He was born in Uruguay and returned to Spain in the 1960s. He graduated in Sociology from the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid in 1977, and in Political Sciences, specializing in Political Sociology, from the same Faculty in 1979. Constanza Tobío Soler has been director of the Department of Political Science and Sociology, as well as Vice Dean of the Degree in Sociology at the Carlos III University. He has directed the European Master in Politics and Society, and the Master in Transatlantic Relations. And she is currently director of the Department of Social Analysis at the Carlos III University. She has been coordinator of the “Sociology of Gender” Working Group of the Spanish Federation of Sociology, has belonged to the Executive Commission of the European Association of Sociology and to various European research networks. In addition, he currently belongs to the Advisory Board of the Center for Sociological Research. He has belonged to the Editorial Board of prestigious national and foreign magazines such as European Societies, Politics and Society, Rétraite et Societé and Revista Española de Sociocología. He currently belongs to the board of the Spanish Journal of Sociological Research, as well as the CIS collections, Classics of Sociology and Contemporary Classics. He has given more than 200 presentations and conferences, and has participated in more than 50 national and international research projects. The winner is the author of 177 publications (5 books, 51 book chapters, 51 articles in national and international scientific journals and 59 other publications). She has just published The Gender View in Sociology, of which she is the author together with Mercedes Alcañiz and María Teresa Martín. She has collaborated in the book Women in the Great Recession (2015), as well as in the collective work of the CIS Spain 2015: Social Situation, which was awarded the UNE Award for the “Best Monograph in Legal and Social Sciences 2015”. And in 2018 she obtained the Quality Mention from the Andalusian Association of Sociology for the article “Change and continuity in three generations of women: a qualitative longitudinal analysis of forms of work” published in the Spanish Journal of Sociological Research. The jury, which has been constituted by the president of the CIS, José Félix Tezanos, is made up of the Professor of Sociology, María Ángeles Durán Heras (National Sociology Prize 2018), the Professor of Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid, Inés Alberdi Alonso (National Sociology Award 2019), the Professor of Political Science and Administration at the Complutense University, Esther del Campo García, the Full Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University, María José Mateo Rivas, the Professor of Sociology at the University National Distance Education, María Rosario H. Sánchez Morales, and the Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Miguel Beltrán (National Sociology Award 2020). For any questions you can contact the CIS Communication telephone number 91 580 76 25/664 470 083

Madrid, November 16, 2021. On November 17 , at 11:30 a.m. , the barometer for the month of November will be available to all media on the website of the Sociological Research Center (www.cis.es). For any questions, the Communication telephone number is 91 580 76 25.

Madrid, November 11, 2021. On November 12 , at 11:30 a.m. , the "Survey on social and emotional relationships in times of the COVID-19 pandemic (II)", will be available to all media in the website of the Center for Sociological Research (www.cis.es). For any questions, the Communication telephone number is 91 580 76 25.