The Research Data Centre (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research is a lead partner in the EU-funded Data without Boundaries (DwB) project. As part of this project, academic researchers within Europe are invited to apply for access to highly detailed social survey, census and business microdata from similar services in the UK, Germany, Netherlands and France (known as 'Research Data Centres').
This is a unique opportunity for researchers to receive specialist support and reimbursement of costs to conduct research across borders. Researchers should apply to conduct research at Research Data Centres (RDCs) not in the country of their residence. Therefore, researchers applying to access the FDZ data under the DwB project should not be resident in Germany.
Datasets available from the FDZ are listed in the "Overview of Data" section. To apply, qualified researchers should visit the Data Access section of the DwB website for more information about the other RDCs involved and how to apply. Researchers approved under DwB to use data from the FDZ will be contacted with details of the additional steps necessary to be approved to use the FDZ data.
The FDZ data can be accessed via the headquarters in Nuremberg and via five external locations (Berlin, Bremen, Dresden and Düsseldorf).
Further details on DwB are available at the following address:
http://www.dwbproject.org/about/
More about support and conditions can be found here
http://www.dwbproject.org/access/
The call for Research Proposals is available at DwB website:
http://www.dwbproject.org/access/call.html
The call is available also as pdf (247 kB):
http://www.dwbproject.org/access/doc/DwB_first_call_for_proposals.pdf
Data available at the FDZ can be found here:
http://fdz.iab.de/en/FDZ_Overview_of_Data.aspx
Access to the weakly anonymous data of the FDZ via on-site use is now also available at the following five external locations: Berlin, Bremen, Dresden and Ann Arbor (USA). The location Duesseldorf will be available in the near future. Researchers are able to work through a fast and secure remote access connection, while FDZ-data is still stored in the facilities of the Federal Employment Agency (BA). Having four new locations in Germany will reduce the effort for travel and hotel costs enormously.
With two big international airports, the sites in Berlin and Duesseldorf are especially interesting for researchers from aboard. Reaching highly detailed data from the FDZ will from now on be much easier. The location at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (USA) will make international cooperation with researcher in the US less difficult - a substantial progress for research activities about the issues of the Institute for Employment Research.
For further information please visit our website:
http://fdz.iab.de/en/FDZ_Data_Access/FDZ_On-Site_Use/Standorte.aspx
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