CESSDA ERIC

📘 Missed our report last week?
The CESSDA KPI report, “Measuring what matters”, brings together key insights and trends from across the CESSDA community.

👉 Catch up here: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

#FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

🌐 From website outreach to policy impact:
~10 million annual website visits
1 in 5 Service Providers are actively engaged in science policy
CESSDA helps ensure social sciences shape future research and data ecosystems.

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#FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

Between 2020 and 2025, CESSDA:
🔹Delivered +224% datasets
🔹Reached ~10M website visits/year
🔹Organised +155% training
🔹+42% attendance in training events
🔹1 in 5 Service Providers actively shape science policy

👉 KPI report: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

#FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

Are you a data user?🕵️
In 2024, CESSDA organised nearly 600 training events attended by 14,000 data users. We support early-career researchers with targeted RDM training and tools from the start.

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Our latest KPI report, “Measuring what matters”, highlights our progress (2020–2024) from data delivery, research visibility, education, to policy engagement.
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#FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

Great energy at CESSDA’s Trust and Landscape Open Hour on data citation and tracking data impact! Thanks to all 40 participants and speakers for the insights on strengthening citation practices and exploring API-based impact tracking.

We keep building better ways to understand data impact.

Big news from the ERIC Forum annual meeting!
CESSDA Director Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch has just been elected Chair of the Executive Committee of the ERIC Forum. Eija Juurola, Director General of ACTRIS ERIC, becomes the new Vice Chair.
read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
#ERICForum #SSHOC

New to DDI? This year at the EDDI conference, there will be a special part just for you! 🫵

This all-day meeting will provide overview for organisations who would like to provide or know more about how to provide access to data using the DDI standard.
Learn more at events.geant.org/event/1879/p...

🔍 New version of the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) released!
Version 6 includes key updates to the demography hierarchy, ensuring that ELSST continues to reflect modern society and promote diversity and inclusivity.
read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

CESSDA in Athens for the 25th Service Provider Forum!

CESSDA Director Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, along with her Head of IT, Project manager, Senior Science Officer, and Communications Officer to meet up with our Service Providers to discuss recent and future activities.

Over 70 people joined the CESSDA AI Task Force webinar last week! 🤖 Great to see so much curiosity about how AI can support repository operations: from metadata enrichment to governance and workflows. #CESSDA #AI #ResearchData #FAIRdata

CESSDA participates in the GGP-5D project, which aims to enhance the sustainability and readiness of the GGP on its journey to become an ERIC.

Last week, CESSDA’s attended the Consortium Board Meeting of the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP), and the 8th GGP User Conference, all held at Tallinn University, Estonia.

The #EOSC-ENTRUST project is hosting a Sustainability Workshop on 23 Oct (14:00–16:00 CEST) — exploring how to keep Europe’s network of Trusted Research Environments strong beyond the project.

Open to anyone working with TREs or sensitive data!
www.cessda.eu/Events/CESSD...
#EOSC #TRE #OpenScience

CESSDA Highlighted in Norwegian Government’s White Paper on Research and Data Infrastructure!
The paper underscores CESSDA as a leading example of how research-driven services can generate value far beyond academia.
Read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
#SocialScience #EOSC #ERIC #RI

CESSDA Service Providers shone at the RC33 Conference in Naples 🇮🇹!
DASSI (Italy) & ADP (Slovenia) shared their work on FAIR data, trustworthiness, data stewardship, and privacy in research.
Read more 👇
www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
#OpenScience #FAIRData #CESSDA #RC33 #SocialScienceResearch

European attitudes to climate change and the environment | Infra4NextGen A data summary on the Make it Green theme published today (Thursday 2 October) explores climate change beliefs, levels of concern, willingness to act, and support for climate policies.

A new #data summary explores climate change beliefs, levels of concern, willingness to act, and support for #climate policies.

The latest report published by the Infra4NextGen project, funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social 🇪🇺, includes analysis of data from major cross-national surveys.

Get to know @forsresearch.bsky.social!🇨🇭
Learn how CESSDA's Swiss Service Providerconnect researchers, data, and expertise across Switzerland and beyond!
www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

#SocialScience #OpenScience #Switzerland #DataScience #DataResearch

Highlights from PUBMET conference 2025: a leading forum on scholarly communication and open science!
This year, CESSDA experts shared insights on:
🔹 A culture of data citation
🔹 Developing guidelines for sharing research data on human participants
www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

How do young Europeans perceive inequality today?
The new #Infra4NextGen report, Inequalities in Europe: From Personal Experiences to Policy Preferences, explores youth perspectives on income gaps, social tensions, and trust.
Read the article and access the report 👉 www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

CESSDA is looking for a new technical officer to join our team in Bergen, Norway! 🇧🇻
We need someone who can help our head of IT with:
💻 Maintaining the CESSDA technical Guidelines
🌩️ Cloud-based Infrastructure Provision and Management
💰 Cost Optimisation
Apply today at:
www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

🚨 New CRONOS-3 Data Available!
#Infra4NextGen has released the third wave of the CROss-National Online Survey (CRONOS-3) via the ESS Data Portal.
www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
🔹11 countries
🔹90 questions per wave
🔹Five themes: Digital, Equal, Green, Healthy, Strong
#I4NG #ESS #SocialScience

From ambitious goals to impressive results: CESSDA in FAIR-IMPACT
The FAIR-IMPACT EU Project (2022–2025) has come to a close, helping make research more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
Read more👉 www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
#FAIRdata #EOSC #OpenScience#SocialScience #OpenScience

CESSDA's Irish Service Proivder @issda.bsky.social Launches Dataverse and New Website, making Irish Social Science Data easier to find and work with than ever before!🇮🇪
www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

From paper to podcasts with CESSDA's Greek Service Provider EKKE National Centre for Social research! 🎙️
Read about how Dr. Maria Topali and the rest of the communications group at EKKE has found a new way to disseminate the latest research:
www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...
#OpenScience #DataScience

Call for proposals extended for the Open Science Festival in Vienna this year! 🇦🇹
Submit yours now at: osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/en/call/

Make it Green, Digitial, Equal, but also pretty! ✨

The second I4NG Hackacthon, a gathering of data analysts, coders, and graphic designers, produced several policy briefs using the data from the CROss-National Online Survey 3 (CRONOS-3)
Read the the full summary: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

We're hiring!
Are you our next Project Manger? Join us in Bergen, Norway, and become a part of our growing team!

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🚨 New report drop! CESSDA’s 2024 Annual Report is here 🎉
From new EOSC projects to our first conference and growing membership, it’s been a big year for European social science data.

🧵 Dive in: www.cessda.eu/CESSDA-Docum...

#SocialScience #OpenScience #DataMangement #EOSC

Lithuania joins CESSDA as a full member! 🇱🇹
Today, Lithuania officially joined CESSDA ERIC as a full member, becoming the 23rd member country. Through the Service Provider Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities (LiDA).
Read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...