
08 - 10 Mar 2021
15th conference on “Social Monitoring and Reporting in Europe”
This conference will address the theme: “Increasing Divergence and Changing Social Trends in Europe? Longer-term Developments and Consequences of the Pandemic”.

09 - 10 Jun 2021
11th International Conference of Panel Data Users in Switzerland
Submit your session proposal, your abstract for a presentation or a poster until 14th of February! The conference is interdisciplinary and we welcome participants from all areas of the social sciences.

10 - 11 Jun 2021
Conference: Stay tuned to the Future. Impact of research infrastructures 2.0
Exchange on the meaning of impact and its variation between and within different fields and research infrastructures. Exchange on the measurement of impact. Showcase where and how infrastructures in different field create impact and much more!
Past events

18 - 20 Jan 2021
Swiss Open Research Data Hackathon.
Students, academics, developers and service providers from Switzerland and beyond are invited to connect on ideas, projects and tools in this three-day hackathon. FORS and SWITCH are organising this virtual Open Research Data Hackathon to strengthen collaboration around Open Research Data.

08 Dec 2020
FORS Lunch Seminar on Linkhub.ch
Dr. Elfie Swerts will present linkhub.ch, a strategic initiative that aims to facilitate access to and linkage of data for research purposes.

01 Dec 2020
Join us online for the next Methods and Research Meeting
Bruno Wüest from sotomo will talk about: “Where automation of text analysis makes sense and where not”.

29 Oct 2020
Tagung: Neue Wege der Datenerhebung und -analyse. Die Kombination von Daten aus unterschiedlichen Quellen.
Die Tagung richtet sich sowohl an interessierte Forschende wie auch an Personen mit Führungs-
verantwortung aus Hochschulen, Forschungsförderungs-
institutionen, öffentlicher Verwaltung sowie aus privaten und öffentlichen datenproduzierenden Unternehmungen.

27 Oct 2020
Cause commune: une co-construction des pratiques entre le terrain et la recherche
L’objectif principal du projet Cause Commune est de construire une méthodologie participative et novatrice dans la politique d’action sociale qui profite à la cohésion sociale, au bien-être et à la qualité de vie des habitants.

06 Oct 2020
First results of the FORS COVID-19 MOSAiCH study on well-being, politics, work, and family
The FORS lunch seminars are held to foster scholarly exchange between FORS researchers and interested colleagues to profit from their diverse scientific and cultural backgrounds.

29 Sep 2020
Facing Big Data: methodological and analytical challenges of large-scale textual analyses
The Methods and Research meeting series is now on Zoom ! Don’t miss the first meeting with Sophie Mützel, Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

31 Aug 2020
Call for Contributions to the Special Issue on the 2019 Swiss National Elections
Proposals should be no longer than one page. The deadline for submitting proposals is: 31st August 2020

14 - 28 Aug 2020
24th Summer School in Social Science Methods
Given the current situation, we will provide an option of attending the workshops on-line for those who are not in position to travel. Should the situation require it, the Summer School will switch to remote mode. Register before June 15 !

31 Jul 2020
Call for contributions to the special issue “COVID-19 : A Political Science Perspective”
Welcome are short research notes. Proposals in English should be 150 words. The deadline is 31 July 2020.

28 Feb 2020
FORS-GREC conference “The state of democracy in a comparative perspective”
FORS and the GREC research group of the UNIL Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SSP) is organizing a one-day academic conference titled: The state of democracy in a comparative perspective 28 February 2020, 9h30-16h30 IDHEAP building room 001 AULA The event is co-sponsored by: Montoring Electoral Democracy (MEDem) Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) The programme contains 4 panels […]

19 Dec 2019
FORS lunch seminar on representativeness of surveys and its analysis
The FORS Lunch Seminar with FORS researcher Michael Ochsner will take place in room 5899 at GeopolisThursday, December 19, from 12:15 to 13:15.

03 Dec 2019
Using record linkage in social science — challenges and approaches
In this Methods and Research meeting, Professor Joe Sakshaug, German Institute for Employment Research, gives insights into the following topic: Using record linkage in social science — challenges and approaches.

28 Nov 2019
Overcoming the global despondency trap
Le cycle de conférence du GREC vous invite à suivre cette présentation de Alice Evans (King’s College, London).

14 Nov 2019
Climate protesters and their motives for participating:
Climate protesters and their motives for participating: Results from an international survey of participants in Fridays for Future climate strikes.