TDCC SSH Project Initiatives

The TDCC-SSH helps allocate funding for collaborative projects in the Social Sciences and/or Humanities with a focus on FAIR data and software and open science. We regularly have projects in various stages of development that welcome your feedback and involvement. See below for more details and stay informed by subscribing to our mailing list.

Challenge projects

The Challenge funding strand is intended for mid-sized projects with a duration of 24 months and a budget between €50,000 - €400,000.

Creation of collaborative projects - As the TDCC-SSH, we facilitate a community-based process to bring together collaborative projects from idea submissions to pre-selected, full proposals that can be submitted to the dedicated NWO calls. The first process for these projects ran throughout 2024, with an initial total amount of €1,6 million per TDCC. The second call ran until November 2025 with a total amount of €800,000 per TDCC. Click below for details on the process that was used in 2025:

Active and completed projects - All selected projects from 2024 are now active and running. Find more information about them below, including relevant outputs from the projects:

Bottleneck projects

Bottleneck projects are small scale, lasting 12 months and with a budget of maximum €150,000. There was a one-off sum of €950,000 per TDCC available to distribute through this funding strand in the launching phase of the TDCCs. The light-touch collaborative process to develop these projects began in mid-2023 and lasted until all funding was allocated by the end of 2024. It is no longer possible to apply.