Boost your coding skills at the Research Software Summer School 2026

Are you a humanities or social sciences researcher who has started coding, but feels ready to move beyond Jupyter Notebooks? The Research Software Summer School: Going Beyond Notebooks (29 June-3 July, Utrecht) offers you the chance to take your programming skills to the next level and integrate software into your own research. Registration is now open.

This five-day on-site programme is aimed at researchers that have coded before, but want to develop broader programming skills. By the end of the course, you will not only be able to create your own software solutions to research problems, but also understand and build upon existing tools developed by others.

During the summer school, you will learn for example how to:

Wield the command-line terminal using Bash
Use Git for version control and collaboration
Move beyond Notebooks into full-fledged Python applications
Find, use, and adapt open-source code
Write good documentation

Work on your own project

Participants are asked to bring their own research project so that they can work on their own research questions while developing their programming skills. This does not need to be a fully developed research idea; it could be a pilot project or even just a research question and a dataset.

Who can apply?

The summer school is open to researchers affiliated with any Dutch university or research institute, from PhD candidates to professors. Small groups are encouraged to apply together to work on a shared project. There are 34 places available. Secure your place by registering in time.