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CESSDA at the EOSC Symposium 2026: Connecting users, data and services
More than 500 participants from 35 countries gathered in Florence, Italy, on 14–16 October for the EOSC Symposium 2026. With the EOSC Federation officially entering production, this year's event marked an important milestone for Europe's research data ecosystem.
New demographics dataset added to the NextGen Harmonised Data Gateway
A new dataset covering key demographic information from five major European survey programmes has been added to the NextGen Harmonised Data Gateway, developed as part of the Infra4NextGen project.
CESSDA highlights its impact across data, people, and landscape in 2025
A new brief, “Impact in 2025”, highlights how CESSDA’s network of social science data archives is strengthening data reuse, building research and data capacity, and supporting evidence-based policy across Europe and beyond.
Advancing cross-domain research data interoperability: CESSDA joins CDIF4EOSC
Researchers increasingly need to combine information from different disciplines to answer complex questions. Yet bringing datasets together is often far from straightforward. Different metadata standards, vocabularies, data structures and access conditions can make data difficult and time consuming to combine, even when the individual datasets are already well documented.
New release of ELSST Thesaurus
The September 2026 release of ELSST (Version 7) includes revisions to the Science and Technology hierarchy and related terms. The revision was needed to ensure that the thesaurus reflects modern society.
Get to know AUSSDA: Shaping the social science landscape in Austria
Get to know AUSSDA! Franziska Krauss, Communications Officer at our Austrian Service Provider, has written to us with an update on what’s been going on at AUSSDA recently, and gives us new insights in the many services and resources they offer.