NWO funds 2026 Research Software Summer School
The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH), together with five partners, has received NWO funding to establish a new summer school on research software in 2026. The programme will give researchers in the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to deepen their programming skills and learn how to integrate software into their own research projects.
The summer school curriculum is currently being developed by experts from the CDH Research Software Lab and Data School. The programme is open to around 30 participants, ranging from PhD candidates to professors in the humanities and social sciences from Dutch universities and research institutes.
Titled Research Software Summer School: Going Beyond Notebooks, the programme is aimed at researchers with some prior coding experience who want to broaden their programming skills. A defining feature of the programme is that participants will work directly on their own research projects. Rather than receiving generic training, they apply newly acquired software skills and digital methodologies to their specific research questions and source materials. By the end of the programme, they will not only be able to create their own software solutions to research problems, but will also use preceding work by other scholars to develop improved solutions, and even contribute to the open-source software landscape.
Partners
The summer school is organised in collaboration with ODISSEI, KNAW Humanities Cluster, CLARIAH, Tilburg University, and eScience Center, alongside the CDH Research Software Lab and Data School.
Registration
The summer school will run from 29 June to 3 July 2026. To receive a one-time notification when registration opens, send an email to cdh@uu.nl.
This event is part of the project “Daidalos – A Social Sciences and Humanities Training on Research Software” (file no. ICT.TDCC.001.006), funded in part by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) through the Thematic Digital Competence Centre Social Sciences & Humanities (TDCC-SSH).