NESSIE has hosted a series of Roundtables on the needs of comparative research in Europe. In these, representatives of the leading social science institutes and research communities - researchers, data collectors and disseminators, policy makers and data users - met together to discuss the major issues in comparative European social science research, to identify tasks that will make access to large data collections in the social sciences easier and to make recommendations to improve their comparability across Europe.

Roundtable 1 more...
Data for Comparative European Socio-Economic Research: Challenges, Opportunities and Constraints
Organised by the European Centre for Analysis in the
Social Sciences, University of Essex
12-13 September 2002

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Harmonisation of Data and Technical Access
Organised by the Central Archive for Empirical Social Science
Research, University of Cologne
June 13 -14, 2003

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Data Protection and Data Access Regulations and Guidelines
Organised by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services,Bergen
7-8 May 2004

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Access to Quality Comparative Data for European Socio-Economic Research
Organised by CEPS/INSTEAD (C/I), Differdange, Luxembourg
26-27 November 2004
Luxembourg