Author: doser

On September 15 Ana Petrović (TU Delft) successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Multiscale spatial contexts and neighbourhood effects’. She received her PhD Cum Laude. Next to completing her PhD, Petrović was one of the first research who has used the ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC). Her OSSC project, which she did in collaboration with her supervisors…

In October, the new edition of E-data & Research has been published. This edition features articles about the consequences of COVID-19 for research in the social sciences and humanities. It highlights a number of research projects on the corona crisis that have already been executed. This E-data furthermore includes an interview with Claes de Vreese,…

This month, two calls opened specifically for young researchers. The Nationaal Kiezersonderzoek (NKO) offers free space for the addition of questions to the panel and the Netherlands eScience Center offers an award of €50.000 for a novel research idea.

In September three new ODISSEI employees have started at our partner organisations. Both the ODISSEI Social Data Analytics Team (OSDAT) at Utrecht University as well as the Portal Team at VU Amsterdam have expanded their teams.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, November 24, the ODISSEI Community Conference will take place virtually. In June, ODISSEI received Roadmap funding from NWO with which the project has officially started. At the Community Conference, ODISSEI users will share their research and experience. Additionally, several ODISSEI leading researchers will share their vision on the role of ODISSEI…

The Management Board oversees the execution of ODISSEI and represents the ODISSEI member organisations. With the start of the Roadmap-project, four new members have joined the board.

On 1 September 2020, ODISSEI welcomed two Community Managers: Suze Zijlstra and Eva Heitbrink. They are responsible for maintaining contacts with (potential) ODISSEI users.

On September 3, DANS and LCRDM organize “Food for Psychologists”, an online event especially for researchers in psychology, with tools, tips and tricks in the field of Research Data Management and data sharing.

The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2020 round of the MAG, eight projects were awarded, three more than in previous years. The next round of the Microdata Access Grant will probably open in spring 2021.

In the recently published E-data you can read about the new minor ‘Data Wise’ at the University of Groningen, which teaches students from different disciplines to work with data. In addition, the issue includes an article about the ways in which researchers search for data that they can reuse for their research. An overview of the four…