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CESSDA Calls for 2026-27 work plan results
Mon 10 Nov 2025

CESSDA Calls for 2026-27 work plan results

Earlier this year, CESSDA published two calls for the CESSDA 2026-27 Work plan. We would like to thank everyone who submitted an application, and can now confirm the successful awards.

Building a Resilient Europe: New Report Sheds Light on the Transitions Facing Young People
Mon 10 Nov 2025

Building a Resilient Europe: New Report Sheds Light on the Transitions Facing Young People

A new Infra4NextGen report, Make it Strong: Building a Resilient Europe, explores how Europeans of different generations experience education, work, family life, solidarity, and democracy — and what these insights mean for building a fairer, more resilient Europe.

ESRC Report Sets Out Vision to Fix the UK’s Research Data Pipeline
Fri 7 Nov 2025

ESRC Report Sets Out Vision to Fix the UK’s Research Data Pipeline

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has published Future Data Services Phase 1: Fixing the Data Pipeline, the first step in a major effort to improve how researchers across the UK access and use data.

New version of ELSST thesaurus released
Wed 5 Nov 2025

New version of ELSST thesaurus released

The European Language Social Science Thesaurus (ELSST) is a broad-based, multilingual thesaurus for the social sciences. It is available in fifteen languages: Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

New Report Highlights Progress in Data Citation Practices Across CESSDA
Tue 4 Nov 2025

New Report Highlights Progress in Data Citation Practices Across CESSDA

A new report from the CESSDA Data Citation Working Group reveals that CESSDA’s Service Providers (SPs) across Europe are making significant progress in promoting and implementing consistent data citation practices.

GESIS Strengthens Its Role in Digital Behavioural Data Research
Mon 27 Oct 2025

GESIS Strengthens Its Role in Digital Behavioural Data Research

Digital behavioural data (DBD) is transforming the way researchers observe and understand social developments. Since 2013, CESSDA’s German Service Provider GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences has been at the forefront of integrating this emerging data source into social science research. What began as an exploratory effort has, since 2022, become one of GESIS’s major pillars, alongside its long-standing experience and services for survey data.