News And Announcements

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...

Spotlight on the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

ISSK-BAS (Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) is the national collector and provider of social survey research data collected by Bulgarian research and scientific institutions in the soci...

Spotlight on the Data Archiving and Networked Services

The Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) is the Dutch infrastructure for research data, including Social Science and Humanities (SSH) Data, and is a CESSDA service provider. The Netherlands is a member of CESSDA. Hear from Ingrid Di...

SPOZNAJ Project will introduce the principles of open science to Slovenian research organisations

The 'SPOZNAJ - Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia' project commenced in June 2023. Half a year into the project, the initiative included collaboration with the Central Technical Library at the Univ...