CESSDA SaW – Strengthening and Widening CESSDA

Project framework: HORIZON2020
Financed by: European Commission
Team coordinator of the Institute of Economic Sciences: Aleksandra Bradić-Martinović, PhD
Duration: 2015-2017

Description:
After the successful launch of CESSDA in 2013 (Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives), the aim was to achieve full European coverage, to strengthen the network and to ensure the sustainability of its data for the widened network. The primary ambition was to establish the conditions for and initiate the movement towards, a seamless social science data archive service for the whole of the European Research Area (ERA), which is capable of supporting the research needs of the next generation of social scientists wherever in Europe they may be, or beyond.

The overarching impact of the project was to initiate the transformation of the user experience of social science data in the ERA, resulting in a transformation of the evidence and insight available to those tackling the social and economic issues of Europe.

As a kind of support, national capacities and possibilities for using European Structural Funds and other sources of funding were also considered. This approach has been selected to ensure that national and European benefits in the sphere of economics and society are achieved, as well as a positive return on investment through CESSDA membership, and in line with relevant decision-makers at the level of individual countries. Also, the existing national infrastructure has been encouraged to complete the transition to holistic services, making its services accessible to all interested parties.

Partners on the project were: CESSDA AS, Norway; Charles Beagrie Limited, United Kingdom; Ethnic Kentro Koinonikon Erevnon (EKKE), Greece; Tarki Foundation (Tarki Foundation), Hungary; Tartu Ulikool (UTARTU), Estonia; University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin (NUID UCD), Ireland; Instituto de Ciencias Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), Portugal; University of Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy (FFZG), Croatia; Institute of Economic Sciences / Data Center Serbia for Social Sciences (IES / DCS), Serbia and Sociological Constitution Slovenskej Akademie Vied (SU SAV), Slovakia.