GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Therefore, GESIS conducts surveys as part of long-term national (e.g. the German General Social Survey, the German Longitudinal Election Study) and international survey programmes (e.g. the European Social Survey, the International Social Survey Programme) and operates a repository for social science research data. Since 2022, GESIS has been building a new infrastructure focusing on digital behavioural data, including social media data, with funds from a special strategic budget.

GESIS is the spokesperson for the NFDI consortium KonsortSWD, which has represented the social sciences in the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) since October 2020. GESIS also represents Germany in the Consortium of European Social Sciences Data Archives (CESSDA), which, as the European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) for the social sciences, promotes the international networking of research data infrastructures and supports their integration into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Further information about the institute can be found on the GESIS website.