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SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is a research infrastructure for studying the effects of health, social, economic and environmental policies over the life-course of European citizens and beyond. SHARE is the largest social science panel study and has set new standards in research and scientific data collection. It has global…

In May 2023, the ODISSEI Social Data Science Team (SoDa) has hosted a workshop on causal impact assessment at Utrecht University. The workshop was led by Erik-Jan van Kesteren and Oisín Ryan (SoDa / Utrecht University). The workshop materials are now available online. What is causal impact assessment? How do we assess whether a school…

In 2024, preparations for the twelfth measurement of the European Social Survey (ESS) will start in the Netherlands. The ESS is a leading survey that takes place every two years with the aim of identifying and explaining attitudes to social, cultural and political issues within Europe. ESS is an important source for innovative international comparative…

Written by the ODISSEI Portal Team We are happy to present a new version of the ODISSEI Portal. With a first prototype launched in September 2022, the 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…

ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on computational social science to be given at its conference on 2 November 2023 in Utrecht. ODISSEI, the research infrastructure for social science in the Netherlands, connects researchers with the necessary data, expertise and resources to conduct ground-breaking research and embrace the computational turn in social enquiry. This conference seeks…

Can machine learning and computational text analysis help us make sense of vast numbers of documents, such as development project evaluation files dating back to the 1970s? This is a question that Dr. Ruth Carlitz, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, seeks to answer in her research on how politics conditions…

On 25 May, from 14:00-15:00, ODISSEI and Centerdata organize an online information event for the LISS panel Grant call that opens up this spring. During this session, Joris Mulder (Centerdata, Senior survey researcher and LISS panel Coordinator) will describe the LISS panel and the types of studies and methodological innovations that are possible in the…

On 9 May, from 11:00-12:00, ODISSEI is organizing an information session on how the national infrastructure can support researchers in their upcoming ERC or NWO funding application. Facilities that ODISSEI and its partners offer, can help elevate grant proposals and offer a comparative advantage in the application process. During this session, dr. Kasia Karpinska, ODISSEI…

ODISSEI eScience Grants The Netherlands eScience Center announced the awarded grants after the call of 2022 on 24 January, 2023. Out of a total of 39 grants that are spread across study disciplines, five applications got awarded an ODISSEI eScience Grant, which is intended for social scientists who want to apply digital techniques in their…

The collaboration between ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) and CLARIAH (Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) and fifteen national partners has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Large-scale Research Infrastructure Grant of €15.2 million. This new collaboration, Social Science and Humanities Open Cloud for the Netherlands…