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FORS, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, is widely recognized as Switzerland’s go-to institution for social scienc...Events
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FOSSR DAYS 2025
Join the FOSSR Days 2025, the final 3-days event of the FOSSR project –, a key moment to learn an...
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International Data Week 2025, Brisbane, Australia
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EOSC-ENTRUST Sustainability Workshop
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COVID-19
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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