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The Microdata Access Grant provides free access to CBS Microdata for a selection of projects of researchers working at an ODISSEI member organisation. In the 2021 round of the MAG call, six projects were awarded. Awarded projects Genetic and environmental determinants of socioeconomic status in the Lifelines cohort – Sjoerd van Alten (VU-SBE) and Titus Galama (VU-SBE). Inequality…

In the new E-data (June 2021), read the double interview with ODISSEI Management Board member Annette Scherpenzeel (Statistics Netherlands, CBS) and former Management Board member Ruurd Schoonhoven. In September, Scherpenzeel started as head of the CBS Microdata Services. Before his recent retirement, Schoonhoven was Senior Account Manager at that department. In this E-data, they share…

ODISSEI and the Netherlands eScience Center have launched the ODISSEI – eScience Call of 2021. This call is intended for social scientists who want to apply digital techniques in their research and need technical support in doing so. The call offers three months of in-kind support by Research Software Engineers of the eScience Center.  The…

The new newsletter of ODISSEI has been published. Read about: ODISSEI job openings: Data Manager and Assistant Professor New team members The ODISSEI – NLeSC call and the LISS call Data Drop-in by the SoDa Team ASReview Academies The new E-data Partner announcements Read the full newsletter here. Also interested in receiving the newsletter? Sign up here.…

ODISSEI is looking for a Data Manager for its Coordination Team, to support ODISSEI users (researchers and data providers) to make their research results FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable). You will work with users in all stages of their research process, specifically data collection, data cleaning and data archiving. This means that you will…

In the next months, several new employees will start at ODISSEI tasks. The Portal Team, the NTR team, and the Benchmarking team are all welcoming new members. Elena BerettaPostdoc, VU AmsterdamPortal Elena Beretta is a postdoctoral researcher at VU Amsterdam, where she is currently collaborating on the ODISSEI portal as an internal VU coordinator. She is additionally involved…

The new newsletter of ODISSEI has been published. Read about: The ODISSEI – NLeSC Call 2021 for research software support The LISS panel call 2021 for free panel time The Responsible Open Science workshop Upcoming ODISSEI Events (Such as workshops and lunch lectures). Partner announcements Read the full newsletter here. Also interested in receiving the…

In the LISS Call 2021, researchers affiliated with one of the ODISSEI member organisations can apply for free data collection through the LISS panel and for funding for a project that expands the LISS panel data with CBS microdata.  The LISS panel, managed by CentERdata, consists of some 7,500 individuals from approximately 5,000 households. It…

The ODISSEI – eScience Call 2021 supports social scientists who want to use digital techniques in their research and need help with this. Researchers can apply for support by Research Software Engineers (RSEs) of the Netherlands eScience Center. This round offers space for six projects of each three months of RSE-time.  Those who wish to…

By Trond Husby – Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) There is a heated discussion in Dutch media and policy about the need to construct new dwellings. A vital point of this discussion is where to locate this new residential construction. Some suggest looking to the past, to the last large-scale spatial planning programme in the…