Category: News

On 9 February 2021, dr. Hannah Roberts (UU) held the first ODISSEI Lunch Lecture. She presented her research on the influence of different environmental factors on depressive symptoms in the Netherlands. Her research shows that exposure to a green environment is associated with a reduction of depressive symptoms. To come to this conclusion, Roberts has…

On Tuesday 30 March from 12-13 pm (CET), prof. dr. Rens van de Schoot, professor of statistics at Utrecht University, will present on the open-source tool ASReview, that can help researchers find relevant literature at a much faster pace and increase the quality of their screening process. We warmly invite you to attend this lecture,…

In the past few months, several new team members have started at Maastricht University, Utrecht University, and VU Amsterdam. The Portal task, the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team (SoDa), and the Distributed Analytics Techniques task are all welcoming new members.

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,…