News And Announcements

FAIR-IMPACT open call for financial support

FAIR-IMPACT open call for financial support: Recommendations for trustworthy and FAIR-enabling data repositories FAIR-IMPACT project has developed guidelines to improve the transparency of, and trust in, repositories. In this support act...

ECRIN–CESSDA strategies for cross metadata mappings

We are happy to share the research paper from the BY-COVID project which showcases the importance of cross-domain collaboration. The focus is on metadata schemas and vocabularies used for discovering scientific studies and resources in the...

FAIR Implementation workshop 2# Building FAIR skills at a national level

The "FAIR Implementation Workshop - Building FAIR skills at a national level" will take place on 27 February 2024 11:00-13:00 CET. Confirm your registration below. Note: Registration for the workshop is mandatory. Description...

SSHOC, the SSH Open Science Cluster has a New Chair and Vice-Chair in 2024

We are thrilled to share the exciting news that the SSH Open Cluster has elected a new Chair and Vice-Chair to guide its endeavours in 2024! Taking the helm as the new Chair is Dr Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, the Director of CESSDA E...

OSCARS project funded to foster the uptake of Open Science in Europe

More details about another project CESSDA is joining in 2024! Dive into the plan for O.S.C.A.R.S - the cross cluster collaboration continuation project and learn how you can also benefit from it! Five major Science Clusters A wide ran...

Unlocking Collaborative Horizons: CESSDA at EOSC Symposium 2023

This year's EOSC Symposium provided a dynamic platform for discussions and enlightening presentations, bringing together influential figures from the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) community. Representatives from CESSDA ERIC, the Co...

Seven exciting new EC funded projects for CESSDA coming in 2024!

As a result of its past engagement and successful cross-disciplinary collaborations, CESSDA was solicited to participate in multiple EC project proposals. By the close of 2022, CESSDA had become involved in seven successful project proposal...

CESSDA releases the new version of the CESSDA Metadata Validator & the new DDI Profiles!

CESSDA has released the next version of the CESSDA Metadata Validator (CMV). This tool, which validates DDI metadata documents against a given DDI profile, has been enhanced with new features to improve the user experience. It detects and r...

Spotlight on the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

The Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS) is the national centre of expertise in the social sciences in Switzerland which is a CESSDA member. Hear from Brian Kleiner, Head of Data and Research Information Services at FORS....

New Horizon Europe project in social sciences to begin next year - Infra4NextGen

A new €9.75m project funded by the European Commission will bring together outputs from key social science research infrastructures to inform the NextGenerationEU recovery plan and European Union youth policy. Infra4NextGen will re-pur...