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Unlocking Collaborative Horizons: CESSDA at EOSC Symposium 2023
Mon 11 Dec 2023

Unlocking Collaborative Horizons: CESSDA at EOSC Symposium 2023

This year's EOSC Symposium provided a dynamic platform for discussions and enlightening presentations, bringing together influential figures from the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) community. Representatives from CESSDA ERIC, the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives, played a role in various sessions, offering insights into the organisation's contributions and collaborative efforts within the EOSC framework whether through EOSC-related projects, Task Forces or its governance.

Seven exciting new EC funded projects for CESSDA coming in 2024!
Fri 8 Dec 2023

Seven exciting new EC funded projects for CESSDA coming in 2024!

As a result of its past engagement and successful cross-disciplinary collaborations, CESSDA was solicited to participate in multiple EC project proposals. By the close of 2022, CESSDA had become involved in seven successful project proposals, all of which were submitted by early 2023. These successful projects are now starting, with their kick-offs scheduled for early 2024!

CESSDA releases thenew version of the CESSDA Metadata Validator & the new DDI Profiles!
Wed 6 Dec 2023

CESSDA releases the new version of the CESSDA Metadata Validator & the new DDI Profiles!

CESSDA has released the next version of the CESSDA Metadata Validator (CMV). This tool, which validates DDI metadata documents against a given DDI profile, has been enhanced with new features to improve the user experience. It detects and reports any constraint violations (violations of the rules defined in the selected profile) and XSD Schema violations, so the metadata can be improved if necessary.

Spotlight on the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
Tue 5 Dec 2023

Spotlight on the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

The Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS) is the national centre of expertise in the social sciences in Switzerland which is a CESSDA member. Hear from Brian Kleiner, Head of Data and Research Information Services at FORS.

New Horizon Europe project in social sciences to begin next year - Infra4NextGen
Mon 4 Dec 2023

New Horizon Europe project in social sciences to begin next year - Infra4NextGen

A new €9.75m project funded by the European Commission will bring together outputs from key social science research infrastructures to inform the NextGenerationEU recovery plan and European Union youth policy. Infra4NextGen will re-purpose and customise existing research services to support the five themes of the NextGenerationEU programme. CESSDA partners play some of the key roles in the project!