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Our research is at the service of data quality - so that you can achieve optimum results with your project.

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Data Release: GLES Candidate Study European Election 2024 Version 1.0.0 is available

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OECD study PIAAC publishes first results

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New blog post: Oliver Watteler & Luisa Golland write about efforts making data usage in the social sciences more transparent

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How competent are adults in Germany? OECD PIAAC study publishes first results

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Our services for your research projects

Research projects generally go through a process of multiple phases – the research data cycle. Each individual phase of this cycle requires specific know-how to obtain significant results. GESIS has the know-how and optimizes utilization of this by offering a unique package of services to accompany the entire research data cycle. 

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Research: the basis of our expertise

GESIS is a research-based infrastructure institution for the social sciences and conducts its own continuous and interdisciplinary research. The results of our research serve both to gain scientific knowledge and to sustainably improve our offerings for the social sciences .

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With more than 300 employees at two locations - Mannheim and Cologne - GESIS provides essential and internationally relevant research-based services for the social sciences.

As the largest European infrastructure institute for the social sciences GESIS offers advice, expertise and services at all stages of scientists' research projects. With this support socially relevant questions can be answered based on the latest scientific methods, and with high quality research data.

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Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
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B6 4-5
68159 Mannheim

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