News And Announcements

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...

HumMingBird workshop

Dear colleagues , We remind you of the workshop entitled "Workshop "Voices in Transit: Human Stories from Migration Routes to Europe" which is organized by the Horizon Programme HumMingBird project, EKKE (National Centre f...

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...

CESSDA ERIC and CODATA Unite Forces to Propel Interdisciplinary Research and Data Advancement

The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and the Committee on Data (CODATA) have formalised a strategic partnership through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), underlining their joint commitment to ad...

Strengthening Cross-Cluster Collaboration: Highlights from the 2nd SSH Open Cluster Assembly

CESSDA, which holds the Vice-chair role of the SSHOC Cluster, as well as provides the Secretariat role for it, has co-organised and joint the 2nd SSHOC Cluster Assembly this year. Read more about the meeting! Unveiling New Members, and C...

Spotlight on the Austrian Social Science Data Archive

The Austrian Social Science Data Archive (AUSSDA) serves as Austria's core social science research infrastructure and is a proud service provider for CESSDA. In this spotlight, we hear from Lars Kaczmirek, Head of AUSSDA. The CESSDA...