This is primarily a necessary and rather belated way to catch up with the level of technical expertise in the whole range of social and political sciences that is now taken for granted at the international level. But it is also a research priority in which Sciences Po has already gained a critical mass of expertise, and can expect to make its mark by developing its original competence in electoral science, new survey capacities, new qualitative skills, and new ways to handle digital data for the social sciences (by the creation of the Sciences Po Medialab).
Sciences Po’s ambition is to become one of the centers of best practices for generating, analyzing, handling and archiving social science data in France. This will require investment in personnel, hardware, software and a reorganization of the work which can no longer be done by separate research centers.
This priority has two projects :
