Synergies for Europe’s Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS) is a four-year project that aims to strengthen and harmonise social science research across Europe.

Focused around three key themes – key challenges facing cross-national data collection, breaking down barriers between research infrastructures, and embracing the future of social sciences – SERISS will address issues relating to survey design and data collection, data management and curation from a collaborative, cross-national perspective. The project will better equip Europe’s social science data infrastructures to play a major role in addressing the key societal challenges facing Europe today and ensure that national and European policymaking is built on a solid base of the highest-quality socio-economic evidence.

The SERISS Consortium involves six research infrastructures representing data users and producers across Europe:

• European Social Survey (ESS ERIC)
• Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE ERIC)
• Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA ERIC)
• Generations and Gender Programme (GGP)
• European Values Study (EVS)
• WageIndicator Survey (WageIndicator)

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