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I visited CASD to use the IDAN safe room for accessing IAB-FDZ’s administrative datasets.
Given my limited knowledge of these complex datasets and the necessity to use multiple of them simultaneously,
my two-month research visit was extremely helpful. It allowed me to handle the original datasets and obtain analysis results directly.
Maria assisted me in scheduling my daily visits seamlessly from start to finish, and her warm colleagues made this great opportunity even more enjoyable.
I feel extremely fortunate to have had access to the IDAN safe room, especially considering its proximity to where I am pursuing my PhD.
Thanks to the IDAN network I was able to access the IAB data products outside of the German sites in a safe and efficient way.
Without the availability of the Safe Room at the IDAN facilities in Paris I would have not been able to develop my PhD research using the German administrative data from another country.
Using CASD’s Safe Room for my various research projects has significantly accelerated my empirical work with the German IAB registry data.
Most importantly, it has allowed me to work efficiently on my projects without the need to frequently travel to Germany.
Additionally, I found the IDAN CASD team to be immensely helpful and friendly.
I used the Safe Room to access the German IAB data, which I worked with for my PhD papers.
The existence of the Safe Room saved me from travelling to Germany to access the data and helped me progress faster on my research project!
Great initiative!
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Comparisons between Germany and France are the subject of numerous research studies, widely used in public policy. The CASD (French Secure Data Hub) and the research center (FDZ) of the Federal Employment Agency at the IAB (Institute for Employment Research) in Germany have collaborated for many years to facilitate work on their respective datasets.
Agreements made within the framework of IDAN (International Data Access Network) enabled the establishment of “safe rooms” from which researchers could access French and German data from a single location using each other’s access devices.
The two partners had also worked together to document some of the particularly similar datasets available at CASD and FDZ/IAB that could be used for comparisons on career paths and labor market issues (https://idan.network/wp-content/uploads/data_report_03-20_en.pdf).
A new pilot agreement has just been signed to test the joint use of this data in a single secure research environment for one pilot project that requires it.
Once the project has been authorized by both parties, according to their respective procedures, and with the explicit agreement of the data producers involved, the IAB will be able to entrust CASD with the necessary data to be placed in the project’s research environment at CASD, thus accessible via SD-Boxes from France, Germany, or any other country in the European Union. This pilot agreement, conducted on a pilot research project, will allow for testing the implementation procedures and evaluating their effectiveness. The next steps would be to extend this type of access once the pilot project has been successfully completed.
This pilot agreement is a major step forward, demonstrating that it is possible to achieve joint and secure use, in compliance with the GDPR, of granular data from different countries. This success is the result of collaborative work and patiently built trust between the two partners.
We work together to promote remote cross-access between
countries to secured data. Our collaboration is regulated
by a Collaboration Understanding ( – view pdf) and bilateral or
multilateral contracts.
We compare and provide harmonized information on partner’s frameworks for secured data, mainly on accreditation procedures ( – view pdf), on partner’s requirements for security rules (– view pdf) and on sanctions in case of confidentiality breaches ( – view pdf ). We aim thus to facilitate the use of data from multiple countries.
We have agreed on common security rules ( – view pdf). So that our IDAN safe rooms can host all partners’ access points allowing the researchers to work with data from several/partners/countries from one physical place in their country while respecting all of partner’s requirements for security rules ( – view pdf).
This section provides information on access points open in each IDAN safe room. Look on the map, to see partner’s catalogs and authorization procedures. Once you are accredited, you can book your place in your local IDAN facilities to access the data
Once you get authorized, contact the partner’s IDAN safe room to access the data and make reservations
CASD
GESIS
IAB
UKDS
Head Office:
Bâtiment Le Polaris - 76 avenue Pierre Brossolette - 92240 MALAKOFF - France
Once you get authorized, contact the partner’s IDAN safe room to access the data and make reservations
CASD
GESIS
IAB
UKDS
Head Office:
B6, 4-5 68159 Mannheim - Germany
Once you get authorized, contact the partner’s IDAN safe room to access the data and make reservations
CASD
GESIS
IAB
UKDS
Head Office:
Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Köln - Germany
Once you get authorized, contact the partner’s IDAN safe room to access the data and make reservations
CASD
GESIS
IAB
UKDS
Head Office:
Regensburger Straße 104 90478 Nürnberg - Germany
Once you get authorized, contact the partner’s IDAN safe room to access the data and make reservations
CASD
GESIS
IAB
UKDS
Head Office:
University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester Essex CO4 3SQ - England
We work together and with researchers to provide
more information on the potential on IDAN partners’ rich data catalogues
for comparative research and funding opportunities.
A project coordinated by Roxane Silberman (CASD)
