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EU funding opportunity for data-driven policy development - Big Data Europe paves the way
The social sciences have been given a boost in a recent call to receive funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme which will close on 2 February 2017.
Contributing to transparency of research, accelerating dissemination and fostering reuse of scholarly data
The Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RDJ) is a peer-reviewed journal, which is designed to comprehensively document and publish deposited datasets and to facilitate their online exploration.
CESSDA plans improved training materials and workshops for researchers
The first meeting of the CESSDA Training Working Group provided the opportunity for CESSDA Service Providers to make concrete plans for the development of training resources and for organising workshops.
CESSDA prepared for the new requirements for trustworthy data repositories
The Data Seal of Approval (DSA) and the ICSU World Data System (WDS) both announced on 25 November 2016 that new common requirements were available.
News from Norway - NSD's newsletter "NSDnews" now available in English
Although "NSDnews" is mainly aimed at readers in the research sector in Norway, the publication gives a good overview of national and international projects and activities.
PROGEDO offers a short-term post-doctoral fellowship in social sciences to work on CESSDA SaW
In the framework of the partnership between CESSDA & PROGEDO, and the participation in the European Horizon 2020 project CESSDA Strengthening and Widening (CESSDA SaW), PROGEDO is recruiting a PhD in social sciences for 11 months (from 1 December 2016 to October 2017).