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Presenting the NWO-granted projects for the TDCC Challenge Call 2025

We are pleased to announce that NWO has approved twelve projects for the NWO TDCC Challenge Call 2025. This call aimed to fund projects that help realise the digitalisation ambitions of the TDCCs and the communities they serve.

All projects have gone through the TDCC’s transparent and community-driven process. These projects have varying durations and can run up to 24-36 months.

Find the projects and their public summaries, organised by research domain

TDCC-LSH Challenge projects

  • FUNGI (FAIR, Users, Networks, Genomics, Infrastructure)-NL: A National Hub for FAIR Fungal Research in the Netherlands - Main applicant: dr. T.D. Vu (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen)
  • FAIRworkflow: a Dutch bioinformatics community to support harmonized workflow development, infrastructure and education
  • Strengthening the Impact of Health Research by connecting Patient-driven Infrastructures for Citizen Generated Data - Main applicant: prof. dr. W. Kraaij (Leiden University)

TDCC-NES Challenge projects

  • FAIR Field Data Logger: A community-designed, FAIR-by-design, universal platform for environmental IoTdata acquisition - dr. F.J. Ellsässer (University of Twente)
  • BridgeMD: Bridging the Distance between Data Producer and Data Reuser through Automated Metadata Generation - prof. P.T. Groth (University of Amsterdam)
  • ECO-SCALE: Building Skills for Large-Scale and Energy-Efficient Scientific Computing in the NES - Main applicant dr. S. Girgin (University of Twente)

TDCC-SSH Challenge projects

  • FORTES: Framework for Open Research on Trade and Economic Sources - Main applicant: dr. S.C.P.J. Go (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Unlocking Web Data for Research: Legal and Technical Foundations for Web Scraping - Main applicant: M. Mahlouji MSc (Tilburg University)
  • LEGIS: Legal Ecosystem for Governance, Intermediaries and Standards in SSH Research - Main applicant dr. A. Quintavalla (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  • HANDS-RX2: Handwritten Archival Data Structuring with Recognition Extra squared - Main applicant: dr. B. Quanjer (Radboud University Nijmegen)
  • Byte Me: A national portal facilitating responsible LLM use in SSH Research - Main applicant: dr. S. Ilamparuthi (Technical University Delft)
  • LegalBlocks: FAIRified Lego-Style Application Development for Legal Research Software - Main applicant: S.M. Chakravarthy (Maastricht University)

posted on 1 June 2026

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