The Federation of European National Statistical Societies
About Us
The Federation promotes mutual communication, co-operation and interchange of views among all those interested in statistical sciences, in their scientific principles, in a broad sense and in as wide a range of applications as possible. The Federation serves as an agency for the dissemination of technical and scientific information among the National Statistical Societies forming the federation, promoting their mutual collaboration and those activities that can augment the research scientific impact of the members, including international conferences, journals, books and other publications.
News
- FENStatS Ethical Code being adopted in Europe - an example from SlovakiaThe Slovak Statistical and Demographic Society first to endorse the FENStatS Ethical Code for statistical practice in Europe
- Funding Opportunities for Members and Young ResearchersFENStatS announces two funding initiatives to support collaboration among members and young statisticians.
- PhD & PostDoc positions in biostatisticsThe Department of Biostatistics at the EBPI at the University of Zurich announces vacant positions.
- Two open PhD positions in Mathematical Statistics with non-Euclidean dataThe ‘Stein-based goodness-of-fit TEsts for Non-Euclidean Data’ (STENED) project seeks to hire two fully-funded PhD fellows.
- Obituary - Professor Constantin Anghelache PhDProfessor Constantin Anghelache from the Romanian Statistical Society passed away.
- A session by Società Italiana di Statistica at ICSDS 2024Società Italiana di Statistica organizes a session during the 2024 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science in December 2024.
The Federation serves as an agency for the dissemination of technical and scientific information among the National Statistical Societies forming the federation, promoting their mutual collaboration and those activities that can augment the research scientific impact of the Members, including international conferences, journals, books and other publications.
Objectives and activities
- The Federation serves as an agency for the dissemination of technical and scientific information among the National Statistical Societies forming the federation, promoting their mutual collaboration and those activities that can augment the research scientific impact of the Members, including international conferences, journals, books and other publications.
- The Federation promotes mutual communication, co-operation and interchange of views among all those interested in statistical sciences, in their scientific principles, in a broad sense and in as wide a range of applications as possible.
- The Federation supports the immersion of doctorate and post-doctorate students in statistics in international research networks, and actively cooperates with ECAS (European Courses in Advanced Statistics).
- The Federation encourages crossed participations in national events to increase international exchanges of experiences and research and to organise joint meetings on specific topics of interest for at least two European Member Societies.
- The Federation proposes actions to the European Commission, other European institutions and supplementary donors to secure funds for projects in research and education in statistics. Furthermore, FENStatS prepares and presents projects that cater to research and education needs in statistics and requires its delegates to serve in panels and committee where funding is decided.
- The Federation of European Statistical National Societies is web-based, with interactions and management mainly via the Internet; services, news and newsletters are made available on the Internet.
- The Federation collaborates with international statistical associations and in particular with the ISI (International Statistical Institute) and European Societies with statistical interests such as ENBIS (European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics).