We invite all the members of the Association to attend the first SSHOC-CH General Assembly and its satellite event, which will take place on April 11, 2025 in Bern.

Program

14:15 - 15:00 Formal part of the GA
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 Keynote presentations: Johannes Paulmann (NFDI4Memory consortium, Germany) and Lucas van der Meer (ODISSEI and SSHOC-NL, Netherlands)

• Johannes Paulmann, spokesperson for the NFDI4Memory consortium for historically working sciences as part of the development of a National Research Data Infrastructure. Professor of History and Director at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, his research interests are European history, Transnational and international history and German history in a transnational perspective. 4Memory represents not only the field of history as such but also other disciplines that make use of historical data as part of their methodologies, such as economic and social history, religious studies, and area studies. It aims to ensure the quality of historical research data, thereby safeguarding the critical role of the humanities in complex, rapidly changing societies.

• Lucas van der Meer, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations) and Co-CTO of SSHOC-NL (Netherlands). Having a background in computer science, he graduated cum laude in ICT in Business from Leiden University. His interests include Trusted Research Environments, Digital Twins, applied infrastructure as well as politics. ODISSEI is the National Research Infrastructure for Social Sciences with diverse components, including access to data, expertise and computing, and offers a wide range of support opportunities. The infrastructure is a collaborative consortium of 45 member organisations, including social sciences faculties in the Netherlands, CBS, public research agencies, and research institutes. Its explicit aim is to unite the social sciences and create a common, national infrastructure for research. In 2024, they started the SSHOC-NL collaboration with its counterpart in the humanities CLARIAH.

16:00 - 17:00 Round Table Leveraging existing synergies for the SSH: perspectives from Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands
With the participation of:

• Johannes Paulmann (NDFI4Memory)
• Lucas van der Meer (ODISSEI, SSHOC-NL)
• Beat Immenhauser (Swiss Academy for Human and Social Sciences SAGW)
• Rudolf Mumenthaler (UZH Library and member of StraCo SSH Taskforce)
• Stéphanie Steinmetz (UNIL and member of SSHOC-CH Policy WG)
• Elena Chestnova (USI and member of SSHOC-CH Policy WG)
• Cristina Grisot (CLARIN-CH and DARIAH-CH and vice-chair of SSHOC-CH) as moderator

17:00 - 18:00 Apéro

All members of SSHOC-CH are welcome to attend the GA and its satellite event!

Anyone else interested in attending the satellite event, please drop us an email.