WELCOME TO SSHOC SWITZERLAND
Ensuring the exchange and cooperation of research infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities.
The mission
The mission of SSHOC-CH is to create a cluster of social science and humanities research infrastructures in Switzerland, encompassing both national infrastructures and the national nodes of international infrastructures.
The vision is to:
Enable synergies and foster collaborations
Through cooperation, complement and enhance existing infrastructures
Provide a framework for new research infrastructures
Establish the link to SSHOC at the European level and to other national clusters
Read the latest SSHOC-CH news:
Call for Abstracts: LLMs and the Social Sciences and Humanities
A hybrid one-day symposium at the University of Porto (30 November 2026) on large language models in SSH research, in collaboration with CLARIN. Abstracts (300–500 words) open until 15 November; attendance registration until 25 November 2026.
Launch of new SSHOC-CH WG
New SSHOC-CH WG aiming at developing a human-centred governance and evaluation model that recognises the specific nature of SSH infrastructures and strengthening their position at the national level.
Launch of SSHOC-CH Swiss Social Sciences Survey WG
Join the newly created SSHOC-CH Working Group for the Swiss Social Science Surveys and attend the first workshop on the topic of “consent” on March 24, 2026.