CESSDA consolidates
and strengthens European
social science research.

Find Research Data

The CESSDA Data Catalogue contains tens of thousands of European studies and data collections held by our Service Providers.

CESSDA Data Catalogue

Learn Data Management

The Data Management Expert Guide (DMEG) is a comprehensive guide to Research Data Management and FAIR data principles.

Data Management Expert Guide

News

Fri 4 Jul 2025 A Part of CESSDA History

A Part of CESSDA History

It’s 1985, and Marion Wittenberg needs a job. As a young student during an unemployment crisis, she needs a way to make money to help...
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Events

  • Tue 8 Jul 2025

    EOSC EU Node Ask Me Anything

    Join our second Ask Me Anything (AMA) session and unlock the full potential of the EOSC EU Node f...

  • Mon 14 Jul 2025 - Fri 18 Jul 2025

    ESRA 2025 Conference

    ESRA hosts its main conference every two years to bring together applied survey researchers, meth...

  • Mon 14 Jul 2025 - Fri 18 Jul 2025

    Digital Humanities Conference 2025

    The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites you to its annual conference, at...

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COVID-19

CESSDA and its national Service Providers are especially committed to supporting coronavirus-related research. For this purpose, we provide a number of resources such as our COVID-19 interview series, lists of relevant studies in the Data Catalogue, and Service Provider activities.

Read more on our COVID-19 page

The Consortium

CESSDA - the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives - provides large-scale, integrated and sustainable data services to the social sciences.

CESSDA in a nutshell
CESSDA Consortium

CESSDA's members seek to strengthen and promote European research in the social sciences, and to facilitate access to data regardless of borders.

Benefits of membership

Accessing and Using Data

CESSDA maintains a number of digital tools for researchers, students and archivists, such as:

Building Data Services

CESSDA provides strategy, expertise and support for promoting and maintaining standards and trust in social science research.

Depositing Data

CESSDA – through its European network of national Service Providers – operates a number of specialised repositories for depositing social science research data. 

To find out more about depositing your data with a trusted CESSDA partner, simply get in touch with your national CESSDA Service Provider.

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