Find a comprehensive list of our courses at training.gesis.org.
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The GESIS Training team is committed to the principles of Open Science. For our events this means the following:
- We would like to encourage our participants to work according to the principles of Open Science in their own research activities. To this end, we regularly offer courses that present these principles and teach practical ways of implementing them.
- We use free and open source software in our events whenever possible.
- We encourage our lecturers to use freely accessible data sets.
- Our lecturers* make their teaching materials available to our event participants*. In addition to scripts, these also contain syntax files and exercise data sets.
For more information on the different formats at GESIS Training click on the following boxes.
GESIS Summer School
Every August since 2012, the GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology takes place at GESIS, Cologne. Lecturers and participants from all over the world and from many different fields come to Cologne to take part in Europe's leading summer school on survey methodology, research design, and data collection.
GESIS Spring Seminar
The GESIS Spring Seminar has been taking place in Cologne annually for more than 40 years. It offers three consecutive one-week courses in advanced methods of quantitative data analysis for Social Scientists. Language of instruction is English.
GESIS Methodenseminar
Since 1980, the GESIS Methodenseminar offers courses that teach basic knowledge and skills in quantitative data analysis. The courses are held in both German and English. The Methodenseminar has a modular structure and follows an interdisciplinary approach.
GESIS Workshops
GESIS Workshops are short courses of one to three days covering a large variety of Social Science research methods, ranging from quali-
tative interviews to questionnaire construction, from sampling procedures and introduction to specific survey programmes through to data analysis. Most Workshops are conducted in German, but some are offered in English.
CSS Capacity Building & Training
GESIS sustains the formation of an interdisciplinary community in the field of Computational Social Science (CSS) by organizing a summer school on methods in CSS and by offering further training courses in data science and CSS methods. Our conferences and symposia provide for tutorials and hands-on-workshops. The GESIS Computational Social Science (CSS) Seminar is a monthly event for expert exchange on data science and social analytics (conducted in English).
Find more information on
- Summer School Series on Methods for Computational Social Science
- Big Data Module GESIS Methodenseminar
- Workshop: Practical Introduction to Text Mining
- GESIS Computational Social Science (CSS) Seminar
- Tutorials at GESIS CSS conferences and symposia
International Summer School in Uganda (ISSU)
In 2019, GESIS - in cooperation with Muteesa I Royal University, Uganda - will organize the International Summer School in Uganda: Survey Design and Data Management (ISSU). The Summer School is funded by the VW Foundation and will provide 50 participants from Germany, Uganda, and Kenya with an intense training in social science research methods. In additoin, it wants to foster international research collaboration and intercultural exchange as well as contribute to capacity building in Eastern Africa.
Practical information
Here you will find some practical information about our course venues, the GESIS locations Cologne and Mannheim.
For training courses taking place in Cologne (GESIS Workshops, Spring Seminar, Methodenseminar and Summer School): address, travel information, accommodation and about the city of Cologne.
For training courses taking place in Mannheim (mostly GESIS Workshops): address, travel information, accommodation and about the city of Mannheim.
Furthermore, we would like to draw your attention to the Terms & Conditions for participation in our training courses.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions!
Training archive
The training archive collects details and materials from past GESIS trainings.
Team
Employee | Field of Work | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Johannes N. Blumenberg | Acting Head of the team, Manager of the GESIS Doctoral Program | +49 (0621) 1246 - 250 Johannes.Blumenberg(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Dr. Kathrin B. Busch | SOLIKRIS Project support. Scientific coordination of the Methodenseminar | +49 (221) 47694 - 226 Kathrin.Busch(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Julia Drzevitzky | Event organization & event management | +49 (221) 47694 - 257 Julia.Drzevitzky(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Janina Götsche | Reporting and administrativ coordination | +49 (0221) 47694 - 205 janina.goetsche(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Dr. Sabina Haveric | Scientific coordination of the Summer School und the Methodenseminar | +49 (0221) 47694 - 166 |
| Selina Herrmann | Trainee for event management | +49 (0621) 1246 - 211 |
| Loretta Langendörfer | Marketing coordination und administrativ coordination of the Methodenseminar | +49 (0221) 47694 - 143 loretta.langendoerfer(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Julia Leesch | Scientific coordination of the Workshops | +49 (0221) 47694 - 169 |
| Dr. Marlene Mauk | Scientific coordination of the Spring Seminar | +49 (0221) 47694 - 579 |
| Dr. Nora Müller | In parental leave | +49 (0621) 1246 - 277 Nora.Mueller(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Claudia O'Donovan-Bellante | Administrativ coordination of the Workshops in Mannheim | +49 (0621) 1246 - 221 Claudia.ODonovan-Bellante(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Angelika Ruf | Administrativ coordination of the Spring Seminar and the Summer School | +49 (0221) 47694 - 162 angelika.ruf(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Laura Rüwe | Administrativ coordination of the Workshops in Cologne | +49 (0221) 47694 - 144 laura.ruewe(at)gesis(dot)org |
| Dr. Reinhard Schunk | Deputy head and scientific coordination of the Spring Seminar | +49 (0221) 47694 - 160 |
| Sebastian E. Wenz | In parental leave | +49 (0221) 47694 - 166 sebastian.wenz(at)gesis(dot)org |