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In order to grasp the continuing changes in research practices, and thus to support the researchers in the new digital environment,  VCC2 has developed a Web Survey that aims at capturing specific aspects of the scholarly research activity within the humanists’ research community across Europe. The questions included in the Web Survey focus on scholarly research activities and information objects, digital methods, services and tools as well as drivers and obstacles envisaged by the researchers in the course of their research activities. Our purpose, with this Web Survey, is to comprehend the research practices of humanists across Europe and to present an inclusive account of how humanists conduct their research using digital services and tools. Thus, our target audience does not comprise exclusively high-tech digital humanists; we are equally interested in all digitally enabled humanists, including those who are still learning or are merely interested in using digital technologies in the course of their research.The VCC2 Web Survey is coordinated and supported by the Digital Curation Unit, Athena Research Centre (Greece) in collaboration with a broad international team within DARIAH. This team includes DARIAH colleagues from Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, and Slovenia. The Web Survey was designed in English and translated into eight languages: French, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Slovenian and Spanish. Since this is a multiregional and multulanguage survey, it will enable us to get results from a broad population of humanists and sort them by country.The Web Survey was launched in June 2014 and has been embraced by the humanists’ research community, providing us up to now with more than 1600 answers from different European countries. The graph bellow shows the number of answers gathered up to now per country. The survey will remain online until January 31, 2015 and we hope that until then we will have an even greater sample with which to work in order to produce the overall European as well as the national results. We certainly hope that this initiative will provide us with useful and informative results and that it will be repeated in a regular basis, permitting therefore longitudinal comparisons.[caption id="attachment_247" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Results per country - January 2015[/caption]