We would like to invite you to the webinar on “Scientific Data about Society in Ukraine” focused on Ukraine in European Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities, organised by EASSH, the European Alliances for Social Sciences and Humanities, in cooperation with the ESFRI Strategic Working Group on Social and Cultural Innovation.
WHEN: May 22, 2023, 9:30h-12:30h CET, Zoom
Please register here to get access: https://forms.gle/uDVvqjuXXeUsaTycA
The webinar aims to be a mutual learning opportunity for involvement of Ukraine in research infrastructures, addressing research infrastructure-practitioners, funders from the European, national and private level as well as delegates from ESFRI and national research infrastructures. It will give the floor to research infrastructures that have already started cooperation with Ukraine to talk about their lessons learnt and challenges encountered. Also, the webinar intends to highlight the potential impact of social sciences and humanities research infrastructures for different policy areas. It will finally highlight current funding gaps and opportunities. The discussion will be concluded by a proposal for next steps in collaboration in the near future.
GETTING AN OVERWIEW: ONLINE WEBINAR
As a first step, this webinar will showcase first experiences and current examples of involving Ukraine in SSH-research infrastructures. Some ESFRI-research infrastructures from the social sciences and humanities have already started activities with Ukraine or are currently exploring different pathways. The European Social Survey (ESS) ERIC is preparing a data collection in Ukraine as part of the coming 11th wave of data collection in Europe. SHARE ERIC and GGP work on collaborations with researchers and organisations in Ukraine to organise future data collections. The Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) ERIC supports Ukrainian data experts. They work on saving data assets in Ukraine as well as on developing tools and services to provide better access to data especially from researchers outside of Ukraine. Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) ERIC currently explores several pathways for cooperation with researchers from Ukraine, for instance in helping to develop language and text corpora or translation systems. These examples show the potential for collaboration with Ukraine that already exists today. These efforts are supported through different mechanisms. The ESFRI-research infrastructures support certain ad-hoc activities with their own funds in-kind. Other activities are funded through individual grants. Some research infrastructures have received first support from Member States. Larger, more systematic activities to include Ukraine in these research infrastructures will need additional support from the European level.
