Five European countries, Norway, Germany, Lituania, Finland and The Netherlands, signed on 29 June in Brussels a memorandum of understanding to commit their financial and political support for the setting up of CESSDA, a European social science data infrastructure. The Council of European Social Science Data Archives ‘CESSDA’ is a network of 20 European archives providing access gateway to important social science data materials. It will now become a truly integrated European data infrastructure, hosted in Bergen, Norway, in which users can locate and gain access to social data resources. CESSDA is one of the 44 projects listed on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) Roadmap. Read More