Welcome to ODIS

ODIS is a dynamic and contextual database. It offers instruments for innovative, multidisciplinary and comparative research into the history civil society, furthering cross-fertilisation between scholary researchers and the custodians of the relevant cultural heritage collections. 

The ODIS database comprises data on:

  • organisations or intermediary structures
  • persons and families who were active in civil society
  • events and buildings related to their history
  • periodicals and archives by and about these entities


Numerous data series, tools and registers are being brought together in ODIS. The partners continuously supplement, update and intertwine them.

All suggestions and remarks concerning the aim and contents of the database are welcome at info@odis.eu  
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