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CESSDA Director Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch elected Chair of ERIC Forum
At the ERIC Forum Annual Meeting in Brussels today, CESSDA’s Executive Director Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch was unanimously elected Chair o...Events
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Mon 24 Nov 2025
2. FIDELIS Network of Trusted Digital Repositories : Infoshare session
Since its launch in April 2025, FIDELIS TDR Network has grown into a collaborative hub for addres...
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Thu 27 Nov 2025
18 CESSDA General Assembly meeting
CESSDA General Assembly meeting is a semiannual internal event gathering representatives of all t...
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Mon 1 Dec 2025
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Fri 5 Dec 2025
European DDI User Conference
EDDI is the annual conference for users of DDI, a suite of metadata specifications for the social...
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CESSDA and its national Service Providers are especially committed to supporting coronavirus-related research. For this purpose, we provide a number of resources such as our COVID-19 interview series, lists of relevant studies in the Data Catalogue, and Service Provider activities.
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CESSDA - the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives - provides large-scale, integrated and sustainable data services to the social sciences.
CESSDA in a nutshell
CESSDA's members seek to strengthen and promote European research in the social sciences, and to facilitate access to data regardless of borders.
Benefits of membershipAccessing and Using Data
CESSDA maintains a number of digital tools for researchers, students and archivists, such as:
Building Data Services
CESSDA provides strategy, expertise and support for promoting and maintaining standards and trust in social science research.
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CESSDA – through its European network of national Service Providers – operates a number of specialised repositories for depositing social science research data.
To find out more about depositing your data with a trusted CESSDA partner, simply get in touch with your national CESSDA Service Provider.
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