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ESRC Report Sets Out Vision to Fix the UK’s Research Data Pipeline
Fri 7 Nov 2025

ESRC Report Sets Out Vision to Fix the UK’s Research Data Pipeline

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has published Future Data Services Phase 1: Fixing the Data Pipeline, the first step in a major effort to improve how researchers across the UK access and use data.

New version of ELSST thesaurus released
Wed 5 Nov 2025

New version of ELSST thesaurus released

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is available in fifteen languages: Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

New Report Highlights Progress in Data Citation Practices Across CESSDA
Tue 4 Nov 2025

New Report Highlights Progress in Data Citation Practices Across CESSDA

A new report from the CESSDA Data Citation Working Group reveals that CESSDA’s Service Providers (SPs) across Europe are making significant progress in promoting and implementing consistent data citation practices.

GESIS Strengthens Its Role in Digital Behavioural Data Research
Mon 27 Oct 2025

GESIS Strengthens Its Role in Digital Behavioural Data Research

Digital behavioural data (DBD) is transforming the way researchers observe and understand social developments. Since 2013, CESSDA’s German Service Provider GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences has been at the forefront of integrating this emerging data source into social science research. What began as an exploratory effort has, since 2022, become one of GESIS’s major pillars, alongside its long-standing experience and services for survey data.

2nd OSCARS Open Call concludes with 12 projects selected
Tue 21 Oct 2025

2nd OSCARS Open Call concludes with 12 projects selected

The second OSCARS Open Call for Open Science Projects and Services has concluded, with 12 projects selected for funding from 710 eligible applications, a strong response that underscores the research community’s engagement with the OSCARS programme.

CESSDA Contributes to European Dialogue on Data and Democracy at MEDem Conference 2025
Wed 15 Oct 2025

CESSDA Contributes to European Dialogue on Data and Democracy at MEDem Conference 2025

The MEDem Conference 2025, held on 29–30 September at GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne by Prof. Alexia Katsanidou, brought together researchers, policymakers, and data journalists to explore the future of evidence-based democracy research.