All photos from the CESSDA 50 conference are now available! www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

CESSDA 2025 Annual Report published! The report looks back on a busy year for CESSDA. Find highlights on: 🔹 New CESSDA full member 🔹 Our work on AI, trust, data citation, and sensitive data 🔹 Continued contributions to EOSC, SSHOC, and European projects www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

New TRUST brief published! Read our new 3-page brief to learn more about CESSDA’s approach to ensuring that research data is managed ethically and securely for the long-term benefit of society. Read more here: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

Meet our second Keynote lineup at the #CESSDA50 conference! Keynote: Barbara Wasson, University of Bergen Chair: Vigdis Namtvedt Kvalheim, Sikt, Norway Rapporteur: Yana Leontiyeva, ČSDA, Czechia Her keynote reflects on the challenges facing research as AI increasingly shapes research cessda.eu/50

Excited to announce the lineup for our first Keynote at the #CESSDA50 conference! Keynote: Linda Nøstbakken, Statistics Norway Chair: Helena Laaksonen, FSD, Finland Rapporteur: Miloslav Bahna, SASD, Slovakia This keynote reflects on the role of open science, the FAIR principles. www.cessda.eu/50

Are young Europeans truly digital natives? Join Infra4NextGen’s “Make it Digital” workshop on 27 May to explore how European data captures digital skills, online activities, and the ability to navigate the digital world. Sing up here: www.cessda.eu/Events/CESSD...

How can social science research support efforts to tackle climate change and support green projects across Europe?🌍 Join the upcoming I4NG workshop on the project's Make it Green pillar, where academic experts will present core concepts models underpinning the pillar. www.cessda.eu/Events/CESSD...

🌍 I4NG Make it Green: Insights on Climate Action and Public Perception How can social science research support Europe’s green transition? Join our upcoming Infra4NextGen workshop exploring the Green Pillar of NextGenerationEU : www.cessda.eu/Events/CESSD...

📘 Missed our report last week? The CESSDA KPI report, “Measuring what matters”, brings together key insights and trends from across the CESSDA community. 👉 Catch up here: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

🌐 From website outreach to policy impact: ~10 million annual website visits 1 in 5 Service Providers are actively engaged in science policy CESSDA helps ensure social sciences shape future research and data ecosystems. 👉 read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

Between 2020 and 2025, CESSDA: 🔹Delivered +224% datasets 🔹Reached ~10M website visits/year 🔹Organised +155% training 🔹+42% attendance in training events 🔹1 in 5 Service Providers actively shape science policy 👉 KPI report: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

Are you a data user?🕵️ In 2024, CESSDA organised nearly 600 training events attended by 14,000 data users. We support early-career researchers with targeted RDM training and tools from the start. 👉 Learn more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

Our latest KPI report, “Measuring what matters”, highlights our progress (2020–2024) from data delivery, research visibility, education, to policy engagement. 👉 Learn more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #FAIR #OpenScience #SocialScience

Great energy at CESSDA’s Trust and Landscape Open Hour on data citation and tracking data impact! Thanks to all 40 participants and speakers for the insights on strengthening citation practices and exploring API-based impact tracking. We keep building better ways to understand data impact.

Big news from the ERIC Forum annual meeting! CESSDA Director Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch has just been elected Chair of the Executive Committee of the ERIC Forum. Eija Juurola, Director General of ACTRIS ERIC, becomes the new Vice Chair. read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #ERICForum #SSHOC

New to DDI? This year at the EDDI conference, there will be a special part just for you! 🫵 This all-day meeting will provide overview for organisations who would like to provide or know more about how to provide access to data using the DDI standard. Learn more at events.geant.org/event/1879/p...

🔍 New version of the European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) released! Version 6 includes key updates to the demography hierarchy, ensuring that ELSST continues to reflect modern society and promote diversity and inclusivity. read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

CESSDA in Athens for the 25th Service Provider Forum! CESSDA Director Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, along with her Head of IT, Project manager, Senior Science Officer, and Communications Officer to meet up with our Service Providers to discuss recent and future activities.

Over 70 people joined the CESSDA AI Task Force webinar last week! 🤖 Great to see so much curiosity about how AI can support repository operations: from metadata enrichment to governance and workflows. #CESSDA #AI #ResearchData #FAIRdata

Last week, CESSDA’s attended the Consortium Board Meeting of the Generations & Gender Programme (GGP), and the 8th GGP User Conference, all held at Tallinn University, Estonia.

The #EOSC-ENTRUST project is hosting a Sustainability Workshop on 23 Oct (14:00–16:00 CEST) — exploring how to keep Europe’s network of Trusted Research Environments strong beyond the project. Open to anyone working with TREs or sensitive data! www.cessda.eu/Events/CESSD... #EOSC #TRE #OpenScience

CESSDA Highlighted in Norwegian Government’s White Paper on Research and Data Infrastructure! The paper underscores CESSDA as a leading example of how research-driven services can generate value far beyond academia. Read more: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #SocialScience #EOSC #ERIC #RI

CESSDA Service Providers shone at the RC33 Conference in Naples 🇮🇹! DASSI (Italy) & ADP (Slovenia) shared their work on FAIR data, trustworthiness, data stewardship, and privacy in research. Read more 👇 www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #OpenScience #FAIRData #CESSDA #RC33 #SocialScienceResearch

A new #data summary explores climate change beliefs, levels of concern, willingness to act, and support for #climate policies. The latest report published by the Infra4NextGen project, funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social 🇪🇺, includes analysis of data from major cross-national surveys.

European attitudes to climate change and the environment | Infra4NextGen

A data summary on the Make it Green theme published today (Thursday 2 October) explores climate change beliefs, levels of concern, willingness to act, and support for climate policies.

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Get to know @forsresearch.bsky.social!🇨🇭 Learn how CESSDA's Swiss Service Providerconnect researchers, data, and expertise across Switzerland and beyond! www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #SocialScience #OpenScience #Switzerland #DataScience #DataResearch

Highlights from PUBMET conference 2025: a leading forum on scholarly communication and open science! This year, CESSDA experts shared insights on: 🔹 A culture of data citation 🔹 Developing guidelines for sharing research data on human participants www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

How do young Europeans perceive inequality today? The new #Infra4NextGen report, Inequalities in Europe: From Personal Experiences to Policy Preferences, explores youth perspectives on income gaps, social tensions, and trust. Read the article and access the report 👉 www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

CESSDA is looking for a new technical officer to join our team in Bergen, Norway! 🇧🇻 We need someone who can help our head of IT with: 💻 Maintaining the CESSDA technical Guidelines 🌩️ Cloud-based Infrastructure Provision and Management 💰 Cost Optimisation Apply today at: www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-...

🚨 New CRONOS-3 Data Available! #Infra4NextGen has released the third wave of the CROss-National Online Survey (CRONOS-3) via the ESS Data Portal. www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... 🔹11 countries 🔹90 questions per wave 🔹Five themes: Digital, Equal, Green, Healthy, Strong #I4NG #ESS #SocialScience

From ambitious goals to impressive results: CESSDA in FAIR-IMPACT The FAIR-IMPACT EU Project (2022–2025) has come to a close, helping make research more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. Read more👉 www.cessda.eu/News/CESSDA-... #FAIRdata #EOSC #OpenScience#SocialScience #OpenScience