Infrastructural Projects

Infrastructural projects are an essential component of scientific research, as they create the basis for long-term data collection, analyses and comparisons. They enable a systematic investigation of political, social and economic developments and contribute to the further development of methodological standards. The focus is on the development, networking and optimisation of scientific data infrastructures, using digital technologies to provide comprehensive, comparable and accessible data sets.

The development of new data collection methods and the networking of national and international research initiatives in cooperation with social science data archives thus create the basis for sound social science research. Substantively, our institute's infrastructure projects focus in particular on democratic processes, electoral behaviour, media reporting, and the digital transformation of the social sciences. The overall aim is to establish efficient research infrastructures that capture long-term developments, enable in-depth analyses and sustainably secure scientific findings.

AUTNES

Period: 2009-2016, 2017-2019 (extended)

Sponsor: FWF, BMBWF

 

Digitize! Computational Social Sciences in der digitalen und sozialen Transformation

Period: 2020-2024

Sponsor: BMBWF

 

MEDem

Period: /

Sponsor: BMBW

Past Infrastructureprojects