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The Netherlands is building the world’s first population-level research infrastructure: the Macroscope. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a grant of €16.8 million from the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Infrastructures. Once fully operational in 2030, the Macroscope will enable researchers to tackle societal challenges – from understanding the spread of disinformation and the

The European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH) welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for the new FP10 framework programme (2028–2034) to give greater attention to research on society within pillar 2 (‘Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness’). However, as EASSH states in its position paper of September 2025, this commitment must now be firmly

Claes de Vreese, director of the Digital Democracy Center at the University of Southern Denmark and independent member of the SSH-council, receives the Carlsberg Foundation Research Prize 2025. The prize recognizes his many years of scientific effort in the field of artificial intelligence in relation to media and democracy. Carlsberg Foundation Founded in 1876, the

On August 21, 2025, the Minister of Education decided to structurally embed the funds allocated to the Law Sectorplan and the Domain Plan for Digital SSH. This decision follows the positive final evaluation by the SSH Sectorplan Committee earlier this year. What has been achieved? The Law Sectorplan, as implemented in the period 2019-2024, aimed

On September 20, 2024 the first national meeting on the sectorplan theme of ‘Cultural Heritage & Identity’ was held in Rotterdam, to share knowledge and discuss developments. During the day, promising ideas for collaboration emerged. What is a sectorplan theme? The Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) are united in a ‘domain’, which consists of four

The SSH Council of the Netherlands has written a position paper, outlining several priorities andrecommendations for the new European FP in order to increase the impact of EU investment in Research and Innovation (R&I). This position paper serves as a foundation for the positioning of the SSH in new European FP. Furthermore, the SSH Council

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More than ever, Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, and Economic Sciences are seeking collaboration to operate more decisively across university and discipline boundaries. They have organized themselves within the so-called Social Sciences and Humanities Council (SSH Council) and together they make choices in national sector plans. After a two-year sector plan for Law, there is now