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SHARE COVID-19 research data available  The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) developed a special questionnaire in response to the COVID-19 outbreak and regulations associated with it. In this questionnaire respondents were asked about the effect of COVID-19 on health behaviour, mental health, changes in work and economic situation, and more. The…

ODISSEI Management Board member Ruurd Schoonhoven (Senior Account Manager, Statistics Netherlands (CBS)) is retiring and will leave ODISSEI after years of exceptional and active involvement. Ruurd stood out because of his dedication to ODISSEI and his diligent and considerate attitude. He has been made an honorary ODISSEI-member due to his exceptional achievements.  Ruurd played a…

In February, the new E-data website has been launched (in Dutch). Now that the new website is in place, E-data articles can be found and shared as individual items. The website features, among others, articles that have appeared in the recent February issue. It contains an interview with Jacco van Ossenbruggen (leader of the User…

This month, SURF announced the start of the production of their new supercomputer. The ODISSEI secure supercomputer (OSSC) now runs on the current supercomputer Cartesius. The new supercomputer, that will be called Snellius, will have almost ten times more computing power than the current supercomputer. In the future, the OSSC will be transferred to the…

The 2021 round of the Microdata Access Grant (MAG) call opens today. The MAG offers financing of research projects using CBS microdata.  Researchers who receive the grant will be able to execute a CBS microdata project of up to  €7.500, which covers a project with two researchers, for a time of six months and with…

Would you like more information on the possibilities of working with CBS microdata? On Tuesday, 23 March from 14:00 to 16:00, ODISSEI is organising a CBS Microdata Information Event that also serves as the Microdata Access Grant Kick-off. During this event, a variety of speakers will give an introduction to researchers who want to work…

The department of Methods and Statistics at the Faculty of Social Science at Utrecht University offers a variety of courses during the Utrecht Summer School 2021 that may be of interest to the ODISSEI community. Registration is now open for most courses. The Utrecht University Summer school offers fully accredited summer courses on bachelor, master,…

On Tuesday 9 February 2021 from 12-1 pm, the first ODISSEI Lunch Lecture will take place digitally. Dr. Hannah Roberts (UU) will discuss her recent research on associations between multiple environmental exposures and depressive symptoms in the Netherlands. For this research, Roberts has combined survey data with CBS microdata and GPS data. We warmly invite…

SURF is organising the national conference around research and ICT: the SURF research week. The 3-day online programme will take place on the afternoons of  13, 14 and 15 April. During sessions on data processing, research support, open science and much more, attendees will learn about the latest ICT services that can accelerate research. The…

On 1 February, the Netherlands eScience Center opens their 2021 Machine Learning call: Open Call for Small-Scale Initiatives in Machine Learning – OpenSSI 2021. This call is designed to support researchers who expect to benefit from machine learning or deep learning, but who need additional expertise in applying these methods. The awarded projects will receive in-kind support by Research Software Engineers employed…