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CESSDA – the road towards an ERIC
Kari Bjørke
Lisbon, 3 May 2017
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CESSDA – Brief history
• 1976: CESSDA (Council of European Social Science Data
Archives) established as an informal umbrella organisation for
the European national data archives.
• 2006: included in the first ESFRI Road Map in the field of social
and cultural innovation:
“The present major task is ... to create pan-European infrastructural systems that
are needed by the social sciences ... to utilise the vast amount of data and
information that already exist or should be generated in Europe. Today the social
sciences ... are hampered by the fragmentation of the scientific information
space. Data, information and knowledge are scattered in space and divided by
language, cultural, economic, legal and institutional barriers”
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CESSDA – Brief history II
• 2010: preparatory phase project with EU funding finalised:
recommendation to establish an ERIC
• 2013: established as a consortium based on a MoU between
participating ministries, and a legal entity as the formal vehicle.
Norway is host, main office in Bergen.
– 15 Members, 1 observer
• 2015 April: CESSDA ERIC Application Step 1
• 2016: recognised as an ESFRI Landmark in the 2016 ESFRI
Roadmap
• 2017: CESSDA ERIC will be established
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ERICs hosted by an EEA/EFTA State
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The host State must take on all obligations according to the
ERIC Regulation, including VAT exemption
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Norway: OK
VAT: the Regulation and the VAT Directives do not allow EU
MSs to refund VAT to ERICs outside the EU.
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Gives a less favourable situation for the Norwegian ERICs. For
CESSDA: limited consequences
Some differences in the "paperwork" for exemptions
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CESSDA – main documents
• Statutes for CESSDA ERIC
(members agreed 2016 – final discussions with COM ongoing)
• Technical and scientific description:
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Vision and Mission
Objectives
Unique values of CESSDA
A user-sentric and data-centric approach
Structure of CESSDA
Activities
• Data Access Policy, etc.
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CESSDA Mission
The mission of CESSDA is to provide a distributed and sustainable
research infrastructure that enables the research community to
conduct high-quality research in the social sciences which can
contribute to the production of effective solutions to the major
challenges facing society today and to facilitate teaching and
learning in the social sciences.
This requires the achievement of several objectives: The objectives
will ensure seamless access to data across repositories, nations,
languages and research purposes; encourage standardisation of
data and metadata, data enrichment, data sharing and knowledge
mobility across Europe thus stimulating increased scientific use of
high quality, publicly funded data
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CESSDA Mission
The mission of CESSDA is to provide a distributed and sustainable
research infrastructure that enables the research community to
conduct high-quality research in the social sciences which can
contribute to the production of effective solutions to the major
challenges facing society today and to facilitate teaching and
learning in the social sciences.
This requires the achievement of several objectives: The objectives
will ensure seamless access to data across repositories, nations,
languages and research purposes; encourage standardisation of
data and metadata, data enrichment, data sharing and knowledge
mobility across Europe thus stimulating increased scientific use of
high quality, publicly funded data
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CESSDA – Founding Members
Norway
Austria
Belgium
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
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Hungary
Netherlands
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden
United Kingdom
Observer: Switzerland
New Members
Procedures:
- Application addressed to the Director who shall advise the
General Assembly
- Condition:
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"contribute positively to the tasks and activities of CESSDA
ERIC"
"can be expected to fulfil the obligations"
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Membership fee
Service Provider
Promote the use of standards, access to data etc
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New Members
Who may join as Member or Observer:
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Member States of the Union
associated countries
third countries other than associated countries
intergovernmental organizations
Observer: a country or intergovernmental organisation that is either
preparing to become a Member, or which for domestic reasons
cannot become a Member but wants to make a contribution and
participate in the activities of CESSDA ERIC
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Questions?
Kari Bjørke
Senior Legal Adviser
Department of Research
Ministry of Education and Research
Phone (+ 47) 97 70 79 62
e-mail: [email protected]
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