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On Thursday 9 December from 12:00 to 13:00, the last ODISSEI Lunch Lecture of this semester will take place online. Dr. Eelke Heemskerk (University of Amsterdam) will give a lecture on POPNET: Population Scale Social Network Analysis. We warmly invite you to attend this online lecture, to learn more about POPNET, and to participate in…

Investigating the communication between multinational oil and gas company Shell and the Dutch government. From Friday evening 26 November to Sunday afternoon 28 November, ASReview will organise a Hackaton for Follow the Money (FTM). The Hackaton for Follow The Money will revolve around the communication between multinational oil and gas company Shell and the Dutch government. Follow…

On Tuesday 26 October from 12:00-13:00 hours, dr. Paulina Pankowska (VU Amsterdam) presents her research on the use of hidden Markov models to produce consistent statistics with inconsistent sources. We warmly invite you to attend this lecture, learn more about Pankowska’s research, and participate in the Q&A and discussion after the lecture. More information about…

The Community Conference 2021 will be an opportunity to meet those who are building and using ODISSEI in person, through a series of highly interactive and stimulating sessions designed to encourage collaborations and inspire new lines of research. Sessions will encompass everything from the latest developments in survey science through to projects utilizing the ODISSEI Secure…

On the 8th of September, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven, received the new National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructure. This Roadmap presents the proposals of nine Groups that contribute to innovation in science research. The proposals in the Roadmap focus on the development of large-scale infrastructure research through highly specialised…

In June, DANS, CESSDA-ERIC and ODISSEI hosted a workshop for social scientists on Research Data Management (RDM) and responsible Open Science. It focused in particular on researchers working with quantitative data. The workshop aimed to provide them with insights on RDM and FAIR data, and to guide them in their own development of a Research…

ODISSEI is pleased to invite you to the ODISSEI Community Conference 2021. The conference will take place in Utrecht (exact location to be announced) on Thursday, 18 November from 12:00 to 18:00 hours. ODISSEI celebrates its five-year anniversary in October, making the community conference the perfect moment to look back at how computational social science…

The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for a selection of projects of researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2021 round of the MAG call, six projects were awarded. Awarded projects Genetic and environmental determinants of socioeconomic status in the Lifelines cohort – Sjoerd van Alten (VU-SBE) and Titus Galama (VU-SBE). Inequality…

In the new E-data (June 2021), read the double interview with ODISSEI Management Board member Annette Scherpenzeel (Statistics Netherlands, CBS) and former Management Board member Ruurd Schoonhoven. In September, Scherpenzeel started as head of the CBS Microdata Services. Before his recent retirement, Schoonhoven was Senior Account Manager at that department. In this E-data, they share…

ODISSEI and the Netherlands eScience Center have launched the ODISSEI – eScience Call of 2021. This call is intended for social scientists who want to apply digital techniques in their research and need technical support in doing so. The call offers three months of in-kind support by Research Software Engineers of the eScience Center.  The…