3404 20180116112332.0 10.1051/epjconf/201715204001 DOI SCART-2018-0017 De Cat, P. Pulsating variable stars and large spectroscopic surveys 2017 In the past decade, the research of pulsating variable stars has taken a giant leap forward thanks to the photometric measurements provided by space missions like Most, CoRoT, Kepler/K2, and Brite. These missions have provided quasi uninterrupted photometric time-series with an ultra-high quality and a total length that is not achievable from Earth. However, many of the success stories could not have been told without ground-based spectroscopic follow-up observations. Indeed, spectroscopy has some important assets as it can provide (more) accurate information about stellar parameters (like the effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, and abundances that are mandatory parameters for an in-depth asteroseismic study), the radial velocity (that is important for the detection of binaries and for the confirmation of cluster membership, if applicable), and the projected rotational velocity (that allows the study of the effects of rotation on pulsations). Fortunately, several large spectroscopic surveys are (becoming) available that can be used for these purposes. For some of these surveys, sub-projects have been initiated with the specific goal to complement space-based photometry. In this review, several spectroscopic surveys are introduced and compared with each other. We show that a large amount of spectroscopic data is (becoming) available for a large variety of objects. NO EPJ Web of Conferences 152 2017 id. 04001 1-12 peter@observatoire.be https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2017/21/epjconf_puls2017_04001/epjconf_puls2017_04001.html 244701 http://publi2-as.oma.be/record/3404/files/DeCat2017_EPJWC152_04001.pdf 4308 http://publi2-as.oma.be/record/3404/files/DeCat2017_EPJWC152_04001.gif?subformat=icon icon 5218 http://publi2-as.oma.be/record/3404/files/DeCat2017_EPJWC152_04001.jpg?subformat=icon-180 icon-180 published in NONREF