TDCC-SSH Bottleneck Projects

These projects were intended to respond to one or more of our key bottleneck areas:

  • Increasing the amount of findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) research data and software 
  • Raising awareness amongst researchers about FAIR data and software practices
  • Enhancing the awareness of available digital data and SSH-oriented tools
  • Addressing pressing issues related to the collection and usage of data, like privacy and copyright legislation and the high costs of collecting and producing digital data 
  • Building an open, inclusive and equitable network

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.

Funded Bottleneck Projects


Combatting Bias: Guidelines for Creating FAIR+ (FAIR and Equitable) Data in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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SLIPPRS-NL: Surveying the Landscape of Infrastructure, Policies, and Practices in Research Data Management in Faculties of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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StoRe – Reusing oral history as research and heritage data
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Untangling FAIR implementation in the Dutch Social Sciences and Humanities
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Beyond personal data: Training on hard-to-share research data
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Daidalos: A Digital Social Sciences and Humanities Summer/Winter School on Research Software
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How the Bottleneck Projects Process was run

The collaborative process to develop these projects began in mid-2023 with a publicly shared 'request for community input', as well as a series of stakeholder conversations and community consultations.

After a public consultation period and review by the TDCC-SSH Executive Board, the six project ideas were developed into full project proposals. We established a Bottleneck Project Board with three members who provided the project teams with feedback from one member ('mentoring role') and a review of the proposal by two members ('reviewers').

TDCC SSH Projects Page