A new short brief highlights CESSDA’s achievements in supporting open science, advancing research transparency, and enabling impactful data reuse across Europe.

The “Top 5 Key Performance Indicators”, showcase the progress made by CESSDA’s 22 national social science data archives (Service Providers) in the period of 2020 to 2022.

The key achievements:

1. Enabled access to 38K primary digital objects (including data) through at least 650K publications

2. Supported over 100 multidisciplinary projects for the digital future of Europe and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

3. Empowered education in over 300 lectures and built the research capacity of 12K attendees

4. Engaged over 9 million visits through websites and tools to enhance research transparency

5. Maximised return on investment in social science research by enabling data reuse

CESSDA’s performance indicators showcase the added value of Open Science in research and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

"We look forward to continuing and expanding our collaboration with our partners from research infrastructures, data archives, researchers, and policy actors across Europe and internationally. Together, we can harness open science in research to foster a sustainable digital future," said Dr. Bonnie Wolff-Boenisch, CESSDA Director.

For more information, please contact Lorraine Wong, Senior Science Officer of CESSDA Main Office, at lorraine.wong@cessda.eu.