International Dissemination Meeting was held

On 29 May 2014 the international Dissemination Meeting  was held in Sarajevo, within the realization of FP7 project SERCIDA. The Human Right Center was hosting the conference that gathers other partners of SERSCIDA Project: the Institute of Economic Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia, the Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, The UK Data Archives of the University of Essex, Swedish National Data Service of the University of Gothenburg, Social Science Data Archives, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia.

After the welcome words from representative of University of Sarajevo, the event was hailed by representative of Ministry of Civil Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina and prof. dr Jovan Bazić, representative of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia.

During this meeting SERSCIDA team presented results of the project and discuss central issues pertaining to social science and humanities research data. This included:

• presentations of data archive/service prototypes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia;
• discussion of policy implications of data archiving: funding of data services as long-term objectives of governments to preserve data originated from publicly funded research; strategic issues in funding social science research; why we need strong policies in data management as a starting point for strengthening the social science landscape in the region;
• discussion of the impact of data services on social science research, open access data, and the benefits of sharing for the research community; how data services may strengthen the position of researchers in fundraising, secondary analysis of previously collected data, and advancement of social science and humanities research; and
• strengthening of the network between data services, government institutions, and experts in the project partner countries

Conference participants included data service leaders from around Europe (Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom), researchers in the social sciences and humanities, as well as decision-makers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia. Director of IES professor Dejan Erić participate this conference, together with professor Hasan Hanić, dean of BBA, Aleksandra Bradić-Martinović, PhD (coordinator of Serbian SERSCIDA team), Aleksandar Zdravković, MSc (member of Serbian SERSCIDA team), Saša Milivojević, MSc and Milica Kočović.