This is the second in a series of news stories from across the CESSDA collaboration, which spans sixteen European countries with national data archives and services.

After starting on our journey from Bergen, the seat of the main office of CESSDA, we now head eastward towards the Baltic and Mediterranean sea to learn about what lies ahead in the consortium's data archives there.

Our Slovenian Social Science Data Archives - ADP

This year, the Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov - ADP) celebrates its 20^th anniversary and will mark the occasion by launching a new website that will be more user friendly and informative, interactively presenting the organisation’s mission and all the services offered. The new website will be launched in April (...)

Our Czech Social Science Data Archive - ČSDA

By the end of 2016, the Czech Social Science Data Archive (ČSDA) was certified with the Data Seal of Approval and 2017 went off to a good start as CSDA received funding for a large research project which will run until the end of 2019. The "ČSDA research" project, funded by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, is a collaboration between ČSDA and individual researchers from the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, which encompasses ČSDA (...)

The German data archive - GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences

A range of new services and strategies relating to the archiving of social science data are in the process of being rolled out at GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Germany. The BETA version of the data discovery service gesisDataSeach came online earlier this year and is based on up-to-date metadata harvested from social science research data collections worldwide.

The Lithuanian Data Archive for Humanities and Social Sciences - LiDA

The Lithuanian Data Archive for Humanities and Social Sciences (LiDA) is constantly adding new data collections coming from national and international surveys. The addition in recent months of the Lithuanian National Elections Study as well as data from the European Social Survey and International Social Survey Programme conducted in Lithuania are some examples and further acquisitions will be a priority during the coming year (...)

The Slovak Archive of Social Data - SASD

The Slovak Archive of Social Data (SASD) is planning to enhance its data collection by adding some key public opinion surveys from the 1990s which until now have not been archived. These surveys are particularly interesting as they cover a period of political and economic transformation of the country, presenting data on issues such as the split of Czechoslovakia, NATO, EU membership, etc. (...)

The Greek research infrastructure for the social sciences - So.Da.Net

The Greek research infrastructure for the social sciences (So.Da.Net) has obtained further funding as a result of the submission of a research proposal within the framework of the “National Strategy for Research Innovation and Smart Specialization 2014-2020”. The funding will allow SoDaNet to implement its strategy as well as to further meet goals and objectives set by CESSDA; the implementation of the project is about to begin (...)

Stay tuned for further news from across the CESSDA collaboration later this year.

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