Collective Members participating in SSHOC-CH

CLARIN – Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – is a pan-European research infrastructure aiming to render accessible all digital language resources and tools from all over Europe through a single sign-on online environment. Several Swiss academic institutions have manifested their intention to join CLARIN, first as an Observer member and later as Full member. For this, they have founded the consortium CLARIN-CH on 18 December 2020. It is hosted by the University of Zurich.

It is the Swiss Digital Research Infrastructure for arts and humanities in Basel. The mission of the DARIAH-CH Consortium is to build an active and impactful national network to enhance and support digitally-enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. DARIAH’s activities in Switzerland are coordinated by the Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities DaSCH.

Dodis (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland) is the Swiss national research centre for the history of Swiss foreign relations since 1848. It edits and publishes the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (DDS), an internationally recognised scholarly edition, and maintains the open-access online database Dodis, which provides annotated historical sources and metadata. Hosted by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dodis combines historical research and digital humanities, develops innovative tools for the analysis of historical sources, and promotes knowledge transfer through publications, university teaching, and the public dissemination of historical knowledge.

A departmental technology platform at ETH Zürich providing infrastructure and services for human-subject and survey research in the areas of decision and behavioural sciences.

It is a national organization that hosts various infrastructure activities, including the collection of social science survey data, data archiving and management support, the development and hosting of the SWISSUbase data archiving and sharing platform, and the organisation or facilitation of international and national collaborative projects, as well as conducting many research activities. FORS is located at UNIL and it is funded by the SNSF, by the University of Lausanne and by third-party projects that represent additional sources of funding.

The Gosteli Archive documents the history of women’s movements in Switzerland. Founded in 1982 by women’s rights activist Marthe Gosteli, it collects, preserves, and makes accessible organizational and personal records, photographs, and other materials related to women’s movements and women’s history. As a research infrastructure of national importance, supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and the Canton of Bern, the archive serves researchers, students, educators, the media, and the public by providing access to its unique collections, professional archival and research support, guided tours, and public events on women’s history.

The Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS) is a freely accessible multimedia online encyclopaedia of Swiss history. It is intended for both the general public and researchers. Its content is published simultaneously in German, French and Italian, with a selection also available in Romansh. New articles are produced continuously, while older articles from the extensive corpus are revised and updated on a project-by-project basis to reflect the latest research. Together, these articles cover all historical periods and the whole of Switzerland’s territory, as well as its transnational and global connections.

The national dictionary of Romansh, produced on behalf of the SAGW. It carries out the complete collection, editing and publication of the entire Grisons Romansh vocabulary.

LiRI supports research in linguistics, language science, and related disciplines across every stage of a research project’s life cycle, from experimental design to data acquisition and processing, plus language technology services and statistical consulting. The Swissdox@LiRI service offers a database of Swiss media texts to subscribers from supporting institutions. For research data from projects with a Swiss university, LiRI partners with LaRS and SWISSUbase to provide data archiving solutions.

The Law Sources Foundation of the Swiss Jurists’ Society offers a comprehensive collection of historical legal documents from Switzerland in the “Collection of Swiss Law Sources” (SLS). This collection, now comprising over 160 editions, documents public and private legal life from the Middle Ages to the Helvetic Republic (1798) and includes both well-known and lesser-known charters and records. Around 80,000 text pages of the analog collection have been fully digitized and are accessible online with search capabilities. Since 2018, a multilingual portal has provided newly edited digital documents freely for research. Interconnected indexes for place, person and subject, along with a glossary, provide essential key information for academic research (for example biographical data, family relationships, place identifications and word definitions).

The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) is the largest network for the humanities and social sciences in Switzerland. It is funded by the Swiss Confederation and organised as an independent association. Its members comprise 63 specialist societies. It supports its specialist societies, long-term initiatives and networks.

The Schweizerisches Idiotikon, established in 1862, documents the Alemannic speech varieties as spoken and written in Switzerland and northern Italy from the late Middle Ages to the present day.

The Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA), founded in 1951, is a competence centre for art scholarship and art technology with both a national and an international focus. Its primary activities are research, documentation, dissemination of knowledge and services in the field of fine art. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation, SIK-ISEA enjoys the status of an independent research establishment.

The Swiss Social Archives are a historical archive, an academic library, and a collection of topical documentation focussing on social movements and social change in modern Switzerland. They are a research infrastructure facility of national importance recognised by the Swiss Confederation and have their own research fund.

The Swiss Job Market Monitor (SJMM) advances scientific knowledge of the job market and improves labour market transparency by informing the public about current developments. Its work combines continuous monitoring, data collection and scholarly research, with a focus on job-ad data that are high-quality, representative of Switzerland and comparable over time. Information is automatically extracted from job advertisements and mapped to international ontologies, which lets SJMM share data and insights with academia, public administration, policymakers and the wider public. Each year a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, computational linguists, sociologists and economists refines the infrastructure, using advances in software engineering and large language models.

It is a research data infrastructure which provides expertise in research data management and long-term preservation, such as consulting, training and data archiving for researchers. Since 2021, DaSCH (located in Basel) has operated as a national research data infrastructure primarily funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Founded in 1864, the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) is the association of Swiss adademic economists. It aims to promote and advance economic research in Switzerland and to improve collaborations among members of the domestic and international research communities. A special focus lies on the promotion of young economists. The SSES publishes a peer-reviewed academic journal, the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.

TREE (Transitions from Education to Employment) is a multidisciplinary longitudinal study of Swiss compulsory school leavers, providing data on educational and occupational pathways at the national level. TREE1 follows the 2000 PISA cohort and has conducted eleven follow-up surveys, most recently in 2025 (average age 40). TREE2 is based on the 2016 national mathematics assessment (ÜGK) and has completed seven follow-up surveys (average age 25). Further panel waves for both cohorts are planned. TREE is mainly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and based at the University of Bern.

The Zurich Project on Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso) is an SNSF-funded research infrastructure hosted at the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development (University of Zurich), following a community-representative, culturally diverse sample of over 1,400 young people who entered Zurich’s primary schools in 2004. Across ten survey waves (ages 7–28), it combines longitudinal data on social development, violence, delinquency, mental health, resilience and educational trajectories with parent and teacher surveys, biological measures, a field experiment (RCT) on early prevention, and linked criminal justice and educational records. Data are shared via SWISSUbase and have enabled over 200 peer-reviewed publications.