Funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), political scientists from Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, are currently researching how Europeans understand fairness, reciprocity and cohesion. For this purpose, TU Darmstadt team is conducting three open format moderated focus group discussions in Brussels with participants from various social-demographic groups and nine countries (Finland, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain).