Objective
While access to anonymised official microdata for researchers is still uneven both at national and at European level, access to highly detailed and sensitive microdata is now increasingly on the agenda. Different member states have substantially different outcomes for research access to Official data, and the issue is not just efficiency, but real harm to the contribution of the social sciences to democracy in an information society. Therefore the primary impact of this application is to prepare the essential relationships and build trust, common view and agreements on standards between the European Statistical System led by Eurostat, other stakeholders as the Central banks, the Data Archives European network (CESSDA) and the researchers who are the final users; from access as a postcode lottery, to an integrated model where the best solutions for access are available irrespective of national boundaries and are flexible enough to fit national arrangements. It aims at a) discussing frameworks and proposing pilots for a European accreditation and a distributed remote access for confidential microdata to be expanded later to other partners, both for national and European datasets; b) fostering discussions and promoting improvements and solutions for the entire communities through annual/bi-annual European data Forum, regional workshops, users conferences, training sessions, staff visits c) preparing an easy and single point of access (What data are available? How can I access them?) for the researchers, to be linked to the CESSDA portal where NSIs metadata could be harvested when not available through the CESSDA archives still providing access to official microdata; d) immediately enhancing access to official data making European datasets more useable (metadata, routines) and supporting foreign researchers transnational access both on site and through remote access system to countries official microdata. Close coordination with the European Statistical System discussions and initiatives as well as with on-going and future related projects is developed to ensure maximum synergy and incorporation of outputs.
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FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2010-1
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CP-CSA-Infra - Combination of CP and CSACoordinator
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33014 TAMPERE
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43003 Tarragona
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1000 Ljubljana
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68159 Mannheim
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5007 Bergen
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405 30 Goeteborg
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050663 Bucuresti
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90478 Nuernberg
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08034 Barcelona
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2492 JP DEN HAAG
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1000 Ljubljana
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105 52 Athina
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28014 MADRID
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65189 Wiesbaden
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GU7 1LQ GODALMING
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1024 Ecublens
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CO4 3SQ Colchester
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1011 JV AMSTERDAM
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38200 SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA
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28006 Madrid
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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75675 PARIS
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NP10 8XG Newport
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08193 Barcelona
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104 51 STOCKHOLM
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050706 BUCURESTI
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91120 Palaiseau
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M13 9PL Manchester
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