The Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences FORS was created in accordance to the law on research of the Federal Government. Its purpose is to provide services, to conduct research and to publish and disseminate research findings in the social sciences.
The Foundation's activities specifically comprise the following:
- preparing, documenting and providing data of all kinds, such as are needed to conduct studies in the social sciences;
- advising researchers and other interested parties on the collection and use of data;
- developing methods and procedures for collecting and analysing data;
- promoting the application of the findings obtained.
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