SCOPES project: South-Eastern European data services (SEEDS)

Project framework: SCOPES
Financed by: Swiss National Science Fund (SNSF)
Team coordinator of the Institute of Economic Sciences: Aleksandra Bradić-Martinović, PhD
Duration: 2015-2017

Description:
The SEEDS project (South-Eastern European Data Services) aimed to widen efforts, based on the SERSCIDA model and project outputs, and backed internationally by CESSDA, to establish new data services in the countries of Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and to continue their integration in the national and international landscape for Croatia and Serbia. The project extended the capacities of selected partner institutions and developed knowledge and tools related to data service infrastructures. It brought partner institutions into the fold of an international movement and network that will provide long-term benefits not only to these institutions but more importantly to the respective national research communities, including more available data for secondary analyses. Project partners, beside DCS, were Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM), Albania; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb (FFZG), Croatia; Centre for Political Courage (CPC), Kosovo*; Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research (ISPJR), Macedonia; Center for Monitoring and Research (CeMI), Montenegro; The Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP) of the University of Ljubljana (UL), Slovenia and Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS) with support of University of Essex, United Kingdom Data Archives (UKDA) and GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany.