The Federation of European National Statistical Societies
About Us
FENStatS organizes its first conference SIS-FENStatS 2026
as a joint meeting of the Italian Statistical Society & FENStatS
to be held in June 2026 in Rome.
For more information, visit the SIS-FENStatS 2026 website.
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.
The Federation of European National Statistical Societies (FENStatS) has the aim to promote mutual communication, co-operation and statistical research in Europe and to develop, relations of statistics to society, relations to European institutions, and particularly has the scope to support the diffusion of statistical education in Europe.
FENStatS should secure that more European funds will be spent for research and education in statistical sciences and specifically:
- to have programs that cater to research and educations in statistical sciences;
- to have statistical representatives present in panels where funding is decided.
FENStatS Code of Ethics for Statistical Practice in Europe
On 24 Sep 2024, during the 2024 General Assembly, FENStatS formally approved its Ethical Code. This initiative, which aligns with the Declaration of Professional Ethics endorsed by the International Statistical Institute (ISI), represents a significant step in promoting professional statistical ethics across Europe. FENStatS encourages national societies without an existing Ethical Code to adopt this framework. One way of promoting the ethical standard is through the providing of a system for accreditation maintained by FENStatS, European Statistical Accreditation (AEUStat). More information and the adopted version of the FENStatS Ethical Code is available here and is based on the ISI Declaration of Professional Ethics that is available also in several world languages.
Main activities of FENStatS
- Promotion of mutual communication, among European statisticians, including young statisticians, by the active connection among European national statistical societies;
- Catalyzing collaboration between national statistical societies, by simple operational actions:
- Sections interchange in the national meetings through which national meetings of European national statistical societies are internationalized by increasing mutual participation via the exchange of researchers, by the exchange of the organization of sessions on relevant topics in the meetings of the members’ societies, and through which national research excellence is promoted at an international level;
- Joint meetings among national statistical societies on specific topics of interest for two or more European national statistical societies;
- Provision of a system of European Statistical Accreditation as a common European standard that defines the statistical profession in order to increase the quality of work and information that statisticians produce to society and users of information;
- Promotion of educational activities through the ECAS, the European Courses in Advanced Statistics, associated with the Federation serving as an institution to organize advanced courses in statistics;
- Securing that more European funds are dedicated for research and education in national statistical sciences by requiring it at the European Community level;
- Facilitating a smooth dissemination of knowledge amongst statistical national societies through a series of statistical books published by Springer, entitled FENStatS Series in Statistics and Data Science, made up by volumes of conference proceedings, research monographs and books of official statistics;
- Collaboration with other international statistical organizations.