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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. We are proud to announce a new prototype version of the Portal which now includes metadata from social science datasets…

On Tuesday 28 February between 12-13 hrs, Irina Lock (University of Amsterdam) will give an online Lunch Lecture on the framing of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in online media images. In news media and online public discourse, digital technologies such as machine learning applications are often portrayed as magical “artificial intelligence” (AI). News articles often frame…

On 23 February, the next online Microdata Meeting will take place, with a presentation of Lydia Geijtenbeek (Statistics Netherlands) on ‘Energy Poverty in Figures’. With the increasing fossil fuel prices and the need to transform our energy systems, energy poverty has become an increasingly important topic. Households are energy poor when their energy bill is…

After its successful first run last summer, ODISSEI will host its second Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in the Netherlands from 19-30 June, 2023. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career researchers interested in computational social science.  SICSS-ODISSEI is unique within the SICSS framework…

The Microdata Access Grant call of 2023 is now open. The MAG offers funding for six CBS microdata projects for researchers working at ODISSEI member organisations. Researchers who receive the grant will be able to execute a CBS microdata project of up to €7.500, which typically covers a six month project for two researchers with…

From 19 to 30 June, ODISSEI is hosting its second summer school at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, as part of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) and the Erasmus Graduate School for Social Sciences and Humanities (EGSH). With the summer school, ODISSEI hopes to bring together PhD students, post-docs and early career social…

The LISS panel Grant call offers financing of data collection via the LISS panel. In the 2022 round of the Call for Proposals we have received 39 applications. In this round both individual and consortium applications were considered. Consortium applications could be submitted on behalf of at least 3 different departments/ organisations and, preferably, 2…

Scholars are often aware that there are new ways to collect and analyse data with innovative methods, but it is not always clear what the actual options are or how new techniques can be developed along the way. Social psychologist Eftychia Stamkou approached the ODISSEI Social Data Science (SoDa) team to discuss if and how…

On December 15, 12.00-13.00 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 Scientific…

On 3 November, the ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2022 took place. The conference, which welcomed over 300 participants, was the perfect platform for anyone interested in computational social sciences to learn, share and network. The event took place in the Media Plaza of the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Participants from the entire…