The New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences programme aims to drive a surge in innovation by improving, enhancing and combining existing panel data infrastructures and emerging data sources to develop new data spaces for social science research. It integrates and consolidates skills, knowledge and expertise from different fields of empirical social research and computer science and provides the means to test new methods and procedures of data generation and data analytics.

It is a long-term funding scheme, comprising two three-year project funding periods. The first project funding period began in 2024. The second project funding period will be 2027-2030. The Infrastructure Priority Programme funding line allows for an extension of the programme for a second six-year funding phase for which the Programme Committee will apply.

Researchers will be invited to submit proposals for the second funding period, the call is expected to be released in March 2026 by the DFG. More information will be available on this website in early 2026.

New Data Spaces is managed by the Programme Committee, consisting of Prof. Dr. Cordula Artelt (Spokesperson), Prof. Dr. Corinna Kleinert, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pollak, Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig, and Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler, and the Managing Director Dr. Anika Schenck-Fontaine.