Technology

Technology is the core for realising a social data platform

Training

Training focuses on ‘train the trainers’ and new modes of sharing expertise

Trust

Trust is a key item in performing science and the re-use of data

Membership

Requirements, process and benefits of becoming a CESSDA ERIC Member

News

Democracy, youth, development, values and attitudes: Five data sets from FSD 19 Sep 2017 (CESSDA news)

Democracy, youth, development, values and attitudes: Five data sets from FSD
CESSDA ERIC commits to European open science by joining the ‘coalition of the doers’ 15 Sep 2017 (CESSDA news)

CESSDA ERIC commits to European open science by joining the ‘coalition of the...
Discover five data sets from our German Service Provider GESIS 31 Aug 2017 (CESSDA news)

Discover five data sets from our German Service Provider GESIS

Theme page on food published by FSD 7 Jul 2017 (CESSDA news)

Theme page on food published by FSD
A number of hands-on workshops for eScience project collaborators 30 Jun 2017 (CLARIAH news)

A number of hands-on workshops for eScience project collaborators
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Events

28 Sep 2017

Webinar - Anonymisation theory and practice
11 Oct 2017

Webinar - Introduction to the UK Data Service
17 Oct 2017

Supporting civil society organisations to deliver insights and impact from da...
19 Oct 2017

Webinar - Finding and accessing data in the UK Data Service
26 Oct 2017

Webinar - Key issues in reusing data
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Blog feeds

Translating ELSST into Slovenian 22 Sep 2017 (ELSST Blog)

Translating ELSST into Slovenian
CESSDA ELSST New Release 21 September 2017 22 Sep 2017 (ELSST Blog)

CESSDA ELSST New Release 21 September 2017
We want your views on our next generation data search facility – the first 100 respondents get a £20 Amazon voucher! 12 Sep 2017 (Data Impact Blog)

We want your views on our next generation data search facility – the first 10...
Data journeys in a research career #6: Rachel Oldroyd – Serendipity in a career in understanding foodborne illness with spatial data 5 Sep 2017 (Data Impact Blog)

Data journeys in a research career #6: Rachel Oldroyd – Serendipity in a care...
Data journeys in a research career #5: Marii Paskov – data challenges in social mobility research 30 Aug 2017 (Data Impact Blog)

Data journeys in a research career #5: Marii Paskov – data challenges in soci...
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EC PROJECTS

CESSDA and its data service providers take part in a number of projects of relevance to its strategy.

RISCAPE

RISCAPE

  • TITLE: RISCAPE
  • CONSORTIUM: 14 partners
  • CESSDA ROLE: Beneficiary
  • DURATION: 2017 - 2019
  • BUDGET: 1 999 867
  • AGREEMENT: 730974
CESSDA SaW

CESSDA SaW

  • TITLE: CESSDA SAW
  • CONSORTIUM: 25 partners
  • CESSDA ROLE: Coordinator
  • DURATION: 2015 - 2017
  • BUDGET: 2 498 187
  • AGREEMENT: 674939
BigDataEurope

BigDataEurope

  • TITLE: BIG DATA EUROPE
  • CONSORTIUM: 16 partners
  • CESSDA ROLE: Beneficiary
  • DURATION: 2015 - 2017
  • BUDGET: 4 984 239
  • AGREEMENT: 644564
SERISS

SERISS

  • TITLE: SERISS
  • CONSORTIUM: 20 partners
  • CESSDA ROLE: Beneficiary
  • DURATION: 2015 - 2019
  • BUDGET: 8 884 397
  • AGREEMENT: 654221
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CESSDA WORKING GROUPS

CESSDA provides training and coordination through four working groups.

Trust Support

The Trust Support group works on building trust between service providers, data producers and data users.

Technical

A core group to monitor and advise on needs regarding technical services.

Training

This group brings CESSDA training practitioners together on Data Management and Data Discovery.

Project Management

The Project Management group aims to provide PM training and coordination within the CESSDA Consortium.

CESSDA TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Technical activities to build and maintain CESSDA's digital research infrastructure.

THE CESSDA CONSORTIUM

A brief introduction to CESSDA's mission, members and history.

The vision of CESSDA, as stated in its statutes, is to provide a full scale sustainable research infrastructure that enables the research community to conduct high-quality research which in turn leads to effective solutions to the major challenges facing society today.

CESSDA will support national and international research and cooperation in areas expected to be of great importance in the future. The primary objectives of CESSDA are to facilitate and promote more and wider use of high-quality data in social, economic and political research and in turn, improve our understanding of ongoing societal processes, the problems involved and the solutions available.

The objective of CESSDA is to provide a comprehensive, distributed and integrated social science data research infrastructure which will facilitate and support research, teaching and learning of the highest quality throughout the social sciences in the European Research Area and increase the impact of the activities of its members.

CESSDA already has a critical impact on the social sciences and related research communities, as it provides access to numerous data collections, enabling European comparative research and contributing to thousands of theses and scientific publications.

A major upgrade is necessary, however, in order to strengthen and widen the existing research infrastructure and make it more comprehensive, efficient, effective, integrated and pan-European. The aim of this upgraded infrastructure is to enable researchers to work together within and across research fields, regions and countries, developing leading-edge research methods and tools to analyse all forms of data relevant to social science research.

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General assembly

Heidi Dybesland
Bjørn Henrichsen,
Matthias R.Pázmándy
Lars Kaczmirek
Monika van Ooyen
Christof Wolf
Gábor Csirikusz
Tamás Rudas
Joris Voskuilen
Peter Doorn,
Albin Kralj
Janez Štebe
Bruce Jackson

Matthew Woollard
Susanna Bylin
Staffan Marklund
Troels Rasmussen
Ole M M.Andersen
Fabrice Boudjaaba
Gilles Ohanessian
Petr Ventluka
Jindřich Krejčí
Miloslav Bahna
Lukáš Zendulka
Georg Lutz
Service Providers

Hajo Boomgarden
Lars Kaczmirek
Johan Surkyn
Jindrich Krejci
Yana Leontiyeva
Anna Sofie Fink
Tamas Rudas
Peter Hegedus
Helena Laaksonen
Benedicte Andre
Alexia Katsanidou
Dimitra Kondyli
Algis Krupavicius

Heiko Tjalsma
Vigdis Kvalheim
Miloslav Bahna
Janez Stebe
Hans J Marker
Iris Alfredsson
Brian Kleiner
David Hall
Rein Murakas
John Howard
Claudia Oliveira
Adrian Dusa
Jesus Bouso Frejo
Scientific Advisory Board

Myron Gutmann
Bernt Aardal
Simon Hodson
Denise Lievesley
Nancy Pedersen
Tomaz Smrekar

In June 2013, CESSDA was established as a permanent legal entity owned and financed by the individual member states’ ministry of research or a delegated institution. Norway is hosting CESSDA, and the main office is located in Bergen.

CESSDA had its official launch in Bergen on 5 December 2013. CESSDA AS is a Norwegian limited liability company solely owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, and functions as the legal vehicle for the consortium. It is based on a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ministry and each of the members. The consortium is organised as a distributed infrastructure where each member, represented by a national research authority, has a designated Service Provider that meets specific demands and requirements specified in the Statutes.

There are currently fifteen European countries which are members of CESSDA: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom. In addition, the Slovak Republic is an observer of CESSDA (see National Data Services).

Each member is represented by a national institution, a Service Provider, which is responsible for providing relevant services. The Service Providers constitute the CESSDA main resource, and CESSDA integrates the work of the Service Providers by establishing a one-stop shop for data location, access, analysis and delivery. Software development will increase the quality of available data. Data from sources currently outside CESSDA will also become available. CESSDA will create a more dynamic knowledge management web, contribute to metadata initiatives, improve existing technical infrastructures, promote capacity building, support less developed and less well-resourced organisations, and work toward a widening of CESSDA.

CESSDA was recognised as an ESFRI Landmark in the ESFRI 2016 Roadmap in the field of social and cultural innovation. Prior to that, CESSDA featured in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmaps of 2006 and 2008 as well as being listed as one of the ESFRI Success Stories under “Research Infrastructures in the implementation phase” in the Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures Roadmap 2010. In 2014, CESSDA was categorised as an already “implemented” project in Prioritisation of Support to ESFRI Projects for Implementation under “Social and Cultural Innovation Strategy Working Group”.

On 30 June 2010, the CESSDA PPP project came to a formal end. It was a direct result of the CESSDA RI being identified by the above mentioned ESFRI Roadmap exercise as a research network of excellence. The work carried out during the project period served as a basis for the construction phase of the new European Research Infrastructure Consortium that exists today. For more information on CESSDA PPP, please vist the project website.

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