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We produce survey data for national and international surveys.

We provide tools for the information infrastructure in Switzerland and abroad.

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Events

Conference “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe”, Villa Vigoni, Italy

07/10/2024 - 09/10/2024

The theme of the 18th Conference “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe” (October 7-9, 2024) is “Fears, Worries and Anxieties in Contemporary Europe. Is there a societal climate change and what are the consequences for quality of life?”.

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Lunch Seminar Series on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

08/10/2024 - 29/10/2024

Save the dates for the FORS Lunch Seminars on AI: 24 September, 8 October & 29 October 2024 (12:45 pm to 1:45 pm in the AULA of the IDHEAP at UNIL- Mouline, Chavannes-près-Renens). Bojana Tasic, Head of the Infrastructure and Development Unit at FORS, will lead these sessions.

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FORS-DaSCH Webinar Series: Data Management for Social Sciences and Humanities

06/11/2024

FORS and the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities DaSCH are launching a new series of free online data management webinars for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. The first online webinar will be “Planning Data Management”.

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News

Celebrating 25 Years of Longitudinal Surveys in Switzerland: Call for Papers

To celebrate 25 years of longitudinal research in Switzerland, the SHP and TREE are hosting a conference at the University of Lausanne on June 4-5, 2025, and invite paper submissions.

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FORS-DaSCH Webinar Series: Data Management for Social Sciences and Humanities

FORS and DaSCH are launching a free webinar series on data management for humanities and social sciences researchers. The first session on “Planning Data Management” will be held online.

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Pre-announcement: MOSAiCH Call 2026 – with a thematic focus on the Role of Government

The upcoming MOSAiCH Call 2026 offers researchers a unique opportunity to collect representative data in Switzerland on relevant societal issues at no cost.

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The new SWISSUbase Info Website is live

Do you use SWISSUbase to share or access data? If you are interested in learning more about the platform, its services, or the teams and institutions behind SWISSUbase, visit our newly launched Info Website.

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