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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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New on the GESIS blog: This article explains how parents' wealth influences their children's educational paths.

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Data set of the month: Insights into the Querdenken Scene 2021: Attitudes, Motives and Political Orientation

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New on the GESIS blog: The third part of the LoneCovid series highlights how changes in our social networks during the pandemic have contributed to loneliness.

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Current issue of newsletter "gesis report" is available

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CEWS celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new name: CEWS - Center for Gender Relations in Academia

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Out now: Jedinger, Eisentraut & Masch: The COVID-19 pandemic and the search for scapegoats: Examining the link between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and ethnic prejudice.

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New on the GESIS blog: A new post discusses a new approach to quantify the added value of data curation

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New mda issue out now!

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We are GESIS

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 370 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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