FENStatS Newsletter - Q1/2025
Dear FENStatS Members,
I am delighted to announce that significant progress has been made in organizing the first European FENStatS meeting together within the Italian Statistical Society meeting. The conference will be held in Rome at the University of La Sapienza from the 22th to the 25th of June, 2026. I would be very pleased if you considered your participation to make this conference a great success! Detailed information will be added in the next issues of our Newsletter.
I would like also to announce that the FENStatS Executive Committee has resolved applications to organize FENStatS-specific sessions at national and international conferences, and travel grant applications for young statisticians. Please note that a new call for applications will be issued at the end of this year.
I also highlight the upcoming 4th ERC Webinar with grantees in Statistics, scheduled for April 10th. This event underscores our commitment to fostering statistical research and securing ERC grants for European statisticians.
Finally, in line with our strategic goal of promoting responsible data use and combating misinformation, I would like to announce that FENStatS has promoted a recent submission of a European project on Statistical Literacy. I would like to publicly congratulate the FENStatS statistical literacy-working group for leading this initiative.
With warm regards to all members of our societies,
Lola Ugarte
FENStatS President
FENStatS Announcements
4th ERC Information Webinar for Statisticians on Funding Opportunities
The FENStatS Executive Committee is pleased to announce the 4th ERC Information Webinar for Statisticians on Funding Opportunities. This event is in partnership with the European Research Council (ERC) and will be held on April 10, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (CEST).
Attendance is free of charge upon advanced registration for the event here. Registered participants will receive the webinar link one day before the event.
The webinar will follow this program:
11:00 – Opening by Lola Ugarte, FENStatS President
11:05 – Maria Gonzalez, ERC Scientific Officer
Presentation on available grants, how to apply, and the evaluation process.
11:35 – Testimonials
Experiences shared by grantees with preparing submissions and the interview process.
Thomas Berret (StG 2024 PE1)
Project: HeDiStat - Statistical theory and methodology for combining
heterogeneous and distributed data.
Kaisey Mandel (CoG 2020 PE9)
Project: BayeSN - Data-driven probabilistic modeling of Type Ia Supernova
SEDs for cosmological inference.
Davide Risso (CoG 2024 LS2)
Project: SPECOLA - Spatial Transcriptomics through statistical modeling
and AI.
12:15 – Q&A session
12:30 – Webinar closing
News from National Statistical Societies
Royal Statistical Society
The first-ever UK Statistics Assembly was held in January 2025, with around 550 attendees in-person and online. The UK Statistics Authority delivered it in partnership with the Royal Statistical Society. Available is the perspective on the event from Scott Heald, RSS Vice-President for External Affairs and Director of Data and Digital Innovation, Public Health Scotland, and can be read here.
Società Italiana di Statistica
The Executive Committee of the Statistical Society of Italy (SIS) has formally approved the adoption of the FENStatS Ethical Code, marking an important milestone in promoting ethical standards within the statistical community. This code, developed by FENStatS, sets out clear guidelines for ensuring integrity, transparency, and professionalism in statistical practices. To make the code accessible to a wider audience, the Italian translation will soon be published on the SIS website
Statistical Society of Slovenia
On Nov 26, 2024, the Young Section of the Statistical Society of Slovenia, prepared an open online discussion meeting where Andrej Srakar presented a recent 2024 article by Guido W. Imbens and Yiqing Xu entitled "LaLonde (1986) after Nearly Four Decades: Lessons Learned". The article presents recent assessment of causality for observational data and recommends necessary statistical tests and procedures to extract accurate causal effects. The audience, which consisted of about 13 section members, discussed the article and noted it is very useful in their study work. Next discussion meetings of the Young Section are under schedule.
The Statistical Society of Slovenia engages actively in preparations of instructions for activities to enhance statistical literacy among children for kindergarten and school teachers that soon will be available and circulated.
The latest newsletter of the Statistical Society of Slovenia has been published with interesting contributions about the activities of the society members, and is available here.
In addition, the Statistical Society of Slovenia and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia are applying for the 9th European Statistics Competition. (link)
Conferences / Workshops
SDS 2025: Statistical Methods for Data Analysis and Decision Sciences, Milan (Italy), April 2-3, 2025 (link)
10th Channel Network Conference, Liege (Belgium), May 19-21, 2025. (link)
6th Annual Conference of the Cyprus Statistical Society, Larnaka (Cyprus), May 30, 2025. (link)
JdS2025: 56es Journées de Statistique de la SFdS, June 2-6, 2025. (link)
Giornate di Studio sulla Popolazione – PopDays 2025, Cagliari (Italy), June 4-6, 2025 (link)
SIS 2025, SIS Intermediate Meeting: Statistics for Innovation, Genoa (Italy), June 16-18, 2025. (link)
XLI Spanish National Congress of Statistics and Operational Research and XV Public Statistics Conference, Lleida (Spain), June 10-13, 2025. (link)
ITACOSM 2025 – IASS Satellite Conference, Bologna (Italy), July 1-4, 2025. (link)
IES 2025 – Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality, Bressanone (Italy), June 25-26, 2025. (link)
València International Bayesian Summer School (VIBASS 8), Valencia (Spain), July 7-10, 2025. (link)
39th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM 2025), Limerick (Ireland), July 13-18, 2025. (link)
Spatial Statistics 2025, Noordwijk (Netherlands), July 15-18, 2025. (link)
Joint Statistical Meeting 2025, Nashville (Tennessee), August 2-7, 2025. (link)
SISBayes 2025 – 2nd Workshop of the group SISBayes, Padova (Italy), September 4-5, 2025. (link)
CLADAG 2025 – 15th Meeting Classification and Data Analysis Group, Naples (Italy), September 8-10, 2025. (link)
XX Spanish Conference of Biostatistics (CEB), Elche (Spain), 16-19 September, 2025. (link)
65 th ISI World Statistics Congress, The Hague (Netherlands), October 5-9 2025. (link)
Portuguese Statistical Society (SPE) - National Congress 2025, Algarve (Portugal), October 22-25, 2025. (link)
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