NWO awards €3.5 million for the expansion and modernization of the LISS panel
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded €3.5 million to the Deepfield project, a collaboration between ODISSEI, Centerdata and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). The funding will enable the expansion of the LISS panel, Centerdata’s probability-based online research panel, from 5,000 to 10,000 households over the next five years. This expansion will create greater […]
Award-winning study highlights participation bias in device-based physical activity research
A study on participation in device-based physical activity research has received the JMPB’s 2025 Distinguished Scholar Paper of the Year Award. Published in the Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour (JMPB), it was recognized for its contribution to understanding how selection bias may influence findings from wearable sensor studies. According to Inge de Wolf, […]
Start of the Macroscope: Building the Research Infrastructure of the Future
On February 1, 2026, the Macroscope research program officially launched. This project, funded by NWO, brings together partners from ODISSEI and CLARIAH, who will collaborate over the next five years to develop a new research infrastructure for the social sciences and humanities. This infrastructure provides researchers with secure access to large volumes of sensitive, interconnected […]
Results ODISSEI LISS panel Grant 2025
ODISSEI has announced the results of the ODISSEI LISS panel Grant call 2025. A total of 48 proposals were submitted, of which fifteen projects have been awarded funding. The selected researchers will make use of the longitudinal LISS panel data to study how people adapt to a changing society. The funded projects focus on topics […]
Building the world’s first Macroscope
How does misinformation spread through a population? Why do some communities remain resilient while others fracture? How is trust built up across Dutch society? The Netherlands is investing €16.8 million to answer questions like these. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded funding to build the Macroscope: the world’s first population-level research infrastructure […]
LISS panel Grant 2024: results announced
ODISSEI has announced the results of the 2024 LISS panel Grant call. A total of 37 applications were submitted, of which nine projects have been awarded funding. The proposals were evaluated by an interdisciplinary review committee, which ranked the applications based on the four evaluation criteria outlined in the call for proposals. The committee praised […]
ODISSEI LISS panel Grants 2023
The annual ODISSEI LISS panel grant call offers financing for data collection via the LISS panel. In the 2023 round of the Call for Proposals we have received 34 applications. In total, eight proposals can be granted: six regular LISS panel grants and two grants for projects that will combine the LISS panel data collection […]
The Dutch are often less digitally skilled than they think
Many Dutch people are less digitally skilled than they believe themselves to be. A significant portion of the Dutch population struggles with recognizing fake online stores and phishing messages, even though they think they would be able to identify them. This is shown by research conducted for the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations […]