The New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences programme aims to drive a surge in innovation by improving, enhancing and combining existing panel data infrastructures and emerging data sources to develop new data spaces for social science research. It integrates and consolidates skills, knowledge and expertise from different fields of empirical social research and computer science and provides the means to test new methods and procedures of data generation and data analytics.

New Data Spaces

This DFG Infrastructure Priority Programme's objectives are twofold:

(1) Develop best-practice examples of data generation, data collection and data integration to enhance data quality.
(2) Anchor innovations in existing panel studies, new data collection programmes and data analytic approaches.

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It is managed by the Programme Committee, consisting of Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt (Spokesperson), Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pollak, Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig, and Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler, and the Managing Director Dr. Anika Schenck-Fontaine.

Find out more about the people in the programme.

The Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories

(LIfBi) hosts New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences' Coordination and Management Project (CONNECT) and ENTAILab Measure 4: Results for Future Data Spaces and Open Science

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German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)

co-hosts ENTAILab Measure 1: Building on and Developing Existing Panel Studies

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Freie Universität Berlin

co-hosts ENTAILab Measure 1: Building on and Developing Existing Panel Studies

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Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS)

hosts ENTAILab Measure 3: Data Protection and Data Ethics.

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Goethe University Frankfurt

hosts ENTAILab Measure 2: Research-driven Infrastructure for Advanced Survey-related Data (CIRCLET)

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