Description du projet
Un pôle régional pour la recherche sociologique sur la numérisation et les mégadonnées
Les méthodes des sciences sociales computationnelles (SSC) et des sciences sociales quantitatives (SSQ) se sont rapidement développées et permettent aujourd’hui d’analyser les impacts de la numérisation sur la vie sociale, politique et culturelle. L’Université Koç (KU) d’Istanbul a mis sur pied le consortium Social ComQuant en collaboration avec deux institutions de premier plan, GESIS en Allemagne et ISI en Italie. Le projet Social ComQuant, financé par l’UE, formera aux SSC et SSQ des chercheurs en début de carrière de la KU, renforcera l’excellence scientifique des membres du corps professoral de la KU et d’autres institutions turques, établira une infrastructure pédagogique pour les programmes d’enseignement de ces méthodes et promouvra les collaborations à des fins de recherches communes entre les membres du consortium. Le projet a pour but de faire de la KU un pôle régional en Turquie et au Moyen-Orient pour la recherche sociologique sur la numérisation et les mégadonnées.
Objectif
Digitalization of society characterizes the twenty-first century in many aspects of social, political and cultural life. Computational Social Science (CSS) and Quantitative Social Science (QSS) methods have rapidly developed to analyse these digital human traces, and have become the indispensable core of current high impact scientific research in Social Sciences. However, the widening country Turkey severely lacks scientific expertise and capacity in these methods. Therefore, the Koç University (KU) in Istanbul has teamed up with GESIS- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences from Germany and ISI Foundation- Istituto Interscambio Scientifico (ISI) from Italy to form the project consortium Social ComQuant. The leading institutions GESIS and ISI will share their expertise in CSS and QSS and facilitate to build scientific excellence at KU in these fields. The project will (i) train early stage researchers at KU in CSS and QSS; (ii) increase scientific excellence of faculty members at KU and other Turkish institutions in CSS and QSS; (iii) build a teaching infrastructure for academic curricula in CSS and QSS at KU; and (iv) strengthen joint research collaboration between the consortium members. These objectives will be reached through staff exchanges, summer schools, workshops, expert visits and a virtual training platform that will establish a significant human capacity at KU by facilitating faculty members, graduate and undergraduate students to gain utmost experience in CSS and QSS. This will transform the widening institute KU to a regional hub in Turkey and the wider Middle East region for sociology research on digitalization and big data. Social ComQuant will fulfil the objectives of the Twinning Actions by introducing the promising institute Koç University into the closed group of excellent EU institutes in Social Sciences, increasing the participation of Turkey in European projects and establishing Turkey as an equal partner of the European Research Area.
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Programme(s)
- H2020-EU.4.b. - Twinning of research institutions Main Programme
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Régime de financement
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinateur
34450 Istanbul
Turquie