• Communication platform Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe 
  The communication portal Knowledge Base Social Sciences in Eastern Europe offers a living and long term mapping of the social science disciplines in Eastern Europe. It was developed by GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe in cooperation with Collegium Budapest and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and it aims to support East-West scientific communication, cooperation and information exchange in West and Eastern Europe.

• Collegium Budapest handbook project on Social Sciences in Central and Eastern Europe (SSCEE)
  This stock taking project of the social sciences in Central and Eastern Europe was supported by the EU and initiated by the Collegium Budapest. Partners from Western and Eastern European countries are involved.

• Social Science Associations in Eastern Europe
  Exchange arrangements exist with, first and foremost, sociological and political science associations in Eastern Europe. These associations are important nodes, who also support the dissemination of German-language social scientific research results to Eastern Europe, in that they report on the activities of the Branch Office in their newsletters and journals.

• Network of Correspondents of the GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe
  The correspondents of the GESIS Service Agency are Eastern European social scientists, who are active in the research process in their own countries. Under contract to the Branch Office, they monitor, on the one hand, the newest developments in the social sciences "on-site" and report regularly on the developments in the science policy and its structures, on social science meetings and events and publications, etc. They also provide support for surveys on research projects and institutes, and arrange contacts for the GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe. On the other hand, they promote the aims of the Service Agency - to make the German-language social sciences better known in Eastern Europe - by creating open access to Eastern European social science.

• Guest Scientists
  The GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe regularly invites Eastern European social scientists as guest scientists. During their visits, they have access to the German-language social scientific research results, bring information from their countries to the GESIS Service Agency and deliver lectures on the situation of the social sciences in their countries. The Service Agency Eastern Europe arranges contacts for them in institutes in the Berlin region (for example, BIVS, DIW, WZB) and also invites guest scientists from other Berlin institutions to visit the Service Agency.

• INION
  There are close working relationships with the Institute for Scientific Information in the Social Sciences (INION) in Moscow. A cooperation contract regulates the joint use of databanks and the creation of joint products.

Please direct inquiries and suggestions to: Natalija Schleinstein

Networks / Federal Republic of Germany

• Information Providers and Research Institutes
  The Service Agency fosters the networking of German social scientists working on Eastern Europe / transformation processes through multi-faceted cooperation agreements. Overviews on important producers of information for research as well as on research institutes carrying out projects relevant to Eastern Europe foster transparency and communication and thus help to avoid duplication of efforts.

• Network Eastern Europe
  The network aims at improving the searches for information on and from Eastern Europe in the Internet by supporting the access to relevant link collections.

• German Association for the Scientific Study of Eastern Europe (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde -DGO-)
  The Service Agency is a member of the DGO and maintains close cooperative relationships with the Association.
  An email news list on the exchange of information on Eastern Europe is offered by the GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe together with the German Society for Eastern European Studies e.V. for the Berlin-Brandenburg area.

• Quarterly contributions in the periodical Osteuropa (Eastern Europe).

• Regular exchange and cooperative relationships exist with the East  and Eastern Central European Section on Sociology of the German Association for Sociology (DGS). 

• Cooperation with the South Eastern European Association (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft) and the Balkan-Initiative, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Please direct inquiries and suggestions to: Wolfgang Mallock