Category: News
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Call for Papers: ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2025
ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on Computational Social Science to be given at its conference on 4 November 2025 in Utrecht. This conference seeks to bring together a community of computational social scientists to discuss data, methods, infrastructure, policy application, ethics and theoretical work related to digital and computational approaches in social science research.
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LISS panel Grant 2024 results
We are delighted to announce the results of the LISS panel Grant call 2024. In total, we have received 32 applications, of which we were able to grant nine projects. The interdisciplinary review committee evaluated the applications and ranked them according to the four evaluation criteria, as mentioned in the call for proposals.
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Results of MAG 2024-II
The results of the second round of the Microdata Access Grant (MAG 2024-2) have been announced. This round, we have received 22 applications that were evaluated by the interdisciplinary committee. In total, 6 top scoring proposals have been awarded free access to microdata.
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Beyond personal data: a new initiative to support early-career researchers with hard-to-share data
This project tackles bottlenecks in sharing sensitive research data in the social sciences and humanities. A key feature of this initiative is a series of three in-person workshops, designed to give researchers the tools and insights needed to share sensitive data responsibly.
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ODISSEI Portal from Prototype to Production
We are happy to announce a new release of the ODISSEI Portal. Find more than 9,000 social sciences datasets available across different Dutch data providers. With the new release metadata is continuously updated so that the Portal provides an up-to-date discovery platform for social sciences data in the Netherlands. We have also included a new…
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New version of the ODISSEI Portal offers metadata in Croissant-format
We are happy to present a new release of the ODISSEI Portal. Find more than 8,500 datasets available across different Dutch data providers, including CBS, LISS, DANS and the institutes affiliated with DataverseNL. The new release includes the option to filter on licences, making it easier to search for open access datasets. The Portal now…
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Seven projects awarded Microdata Access Grant (MAG) 2024
The Microdata Access Grant offers financing for research projects using CBS microdata. In the 2024 round of the Call for Proposals for the Microdata Access Grant, we received 19 applications. The reviewers in this round were: Govert Bijwaard (NIDI), Peter Lanjouw (VU), Deni Mazrekaj (UU), Kim Stienstra (EUI).
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New version of the ODISSEI Portal – Find datasets and their access conditions
We are happy to present a new updated version of the ODISSEI Portal. The ODISSEI Portal combines metadata from a wide variety of research data repositories into a single interface, allowing for advanced queries to support findability and facilitate data access to social science datasets in the Netherlands. The Portal includes metadata from CBS, DANS,…
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Unveiling SANE: Secure ANalysis Environment is now available for use
ODISSEI, in collaboration with SURF and CLARIAH, is pleased to announce the introduction of the new phase of SANE – Secure ANalysis Environment, a GDPR-compliant solution designed to provide a secure and controlled environment for researchers to analyse sensitive data. The secure environment is now available for use and awaits research projects requiring the usage…
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LISS panel Grants 2023 Announcement
The LISS panel Grant call offers financing for data collection via the LISS panel. In the 2023 round of the Call for Proposals we have received 34 applications. In total, 6 regular LISS panel Grants could be funded and two grants for a project that combined the LISS panel data collection with access to the…