New Data Spaces

In order to more precisely research the major societal challenges of the coming decades, including digitization, climate change, and war- and pandemic-related societal changes, and to be able to identify the need for political action on this basis, the social sciences need innovative research data and methods. The DFG has established the long-term infrastructure priority programme "New Data Spaces" (SPP 2431) to open up and develop such new data spaces.

It is managed by the programme committee, consisting of Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt (spokesperson) and Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert (both LIfBi), Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pollak (GESIS), Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (FU Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler (Goethe University Frankfurt).

Kick-Off Meeting

The Kick-off-Meeting of the Infrastructure Priority Programme “New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences” (SPP 2431) took place on 11–12 July 2024 at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) in Bamberg.

To the Event

The priority programme "New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences" aims to open up new data spaces for the social sciences. It is designed for the long term and, in view of current social transformations, aims at the consistent modernization of social science methods.