Liebe Kolleg*innen in der Methodensektion, das Programm der GESIS Summer School 2026 ist online und die Kurse können gebucht werden. Bitte findet unten die übliche Ankündigung mit einer Übersicht der Kurse und vielen relevanten Infos - z.B. zu Stipendien und ECTS-Punkten. Viele Grüße Sebastian ***Apologies for cross-posting*** Dear colleagues, The GESIS Summer School 2026 takes place from 22 July to 14 August 2026 - most courses will be held onsite at GESIS Cologne, and some online via Zoom, or in a hybrid format, where onsite or online participation is possible. Join lecturers and participants from diverse fields and all over the world at one of Europe's leading summer schools in survey methodology, research design, and data collection and analysis. Go to www.gesis.org/summerschool<http://www.gesis.org/summerschool> or read on below for an overview of this year's courses as well as information on ECTS credits. _Program Week 1 (22-24 July) - Short Courses Introduction to R for Data Analysis<https://t1p.de/GSS26-SCA> [22-23 July] Jan Schwalbach (GESIS), Dennis Abel (GESIS) Introduction to Stata for Data Management and Analysis<https://t1p.de/GSS26-SCB> [22-23 July] Lynn-Malou Lutz (GESIS), Sophia Hamdorf (GESIS) Pretesting Survey Questions<https://t1p.de/GSS26-SCC> [22-24 July] Timo Lenzner (GESIS), Patricia Hadler (GESIS) Collecting and Aggregating Evidence Across Multiple Studies<https://t1p.de/GSS26-SCD> [22-24 July] Rebecca Kuiper (Utrecht University), Jessica Daikeler (GESIS) Week 2 (27-31 July) Factorial Survey Design<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C1> Katrin Auspurg (LMU Munich), Alisia Bauer (LMU Munich), Carsten Sauer (University of Bielefeld) Advanced Questionnaire Design<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C2> Marek Fuchs (Darmstadt University of Technology) AI-Assisted Surveys: Using AI Tools at Each Step of the Survey Research Process<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C3> Mario Callegaro (Callegaro Research Limited) Week 3 (03-07 August) Data Science Techniques for Survey Researchers<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C4> Fiona Draxler (University of Mannheim), Anna Steinberg Schulten (LMU Munich) Latent Variable Modeling in Survey Research: Classical and New Approaches<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C5> David Goretzko (Goethe University Frankfurt), Melanie Viola Partsch (Utrecht University) Advanced Survey Design<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C6> Bella Struminskaya (Utrecht University), Camilla Salvatore (Utrecht University) Week 4 (10-14 August) Causal Inference Using Survey Design<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C7> Heinz Leitgöb (University of Leipzig), Tobias Wolbring (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg) Applied Introduction to Bots in Web-based Studies<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C8> Jan Karem Höhne (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover), Joshua Claassen (DZHW, Leibniz University Hannover) Sampling and Weighting in Survey Statistics<https://t1p.de/GSS26-C9> Anne Konrad (Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories | LIfBi) Applied Causal Inference Using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)<https://t1p.de/GSS26-SCE> [12-14 August] Beyers Louw (Erasmus University Rotterdam) _Scholarships, ECTS Credits & More 4 Scholarships<https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-training/what-we-offer/summer-school-in-survey-methodology/scholarships> are available to Summer School participants for one-week courses. Grants are disbursed by the European Survey Research Association<https://www.europeansurveyresearch.org/> (ESRA). Thanks to our cooperation with the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences<https://www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/programs/cdss/> at the University of Mannheim, participants can obtain a certificate acknowledging a workload worth 4 ECTS credit points per one-week course. More information is available here<https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-training/what-we-offer/summer-school-in-survey-methodology/ects-credits>. You will find the full program, detailed course descriptions, and more information here<https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-training/what-we-offer/summer-school-in-survey-methodology>. There is no registration deadline, but places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. You will find the full program, detailed course descriptions, and more information here<t1p.de/GSS26-Program>. Never miss a GESIS Training course by subscribing to our newsletter<https://www.gesis.org/en/gesis-training/about-us/newsletter>. Check out these additional workshops on survey methods and data analysis: 16-17 & 23-24/04/26 Bayesian Modeling: From Foundations to Custom Solutions<https://t1p.de/bayesian-modelling-2026> 06-07/05/26 Introduction to Conjoint Survey Experiments<https://t1p.de/intro-experiments-2026> 18-20/11/26 Survey Data Integration<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xF44BD8F19ECA447A97D79B7C1379EA08&lang=de_DE&lang=en_US> Thank you for forwarding this announcement to other interested parties. 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