The NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) has three different funding programmes in the Open Competition. These grants are for ideas that hold great promise (XS) and for large-scale grants (M, L). The SSH-XS grants are available for projects with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro to enable proposals for curiosity-driven, innovative research in the research fields covered by the NWO Domain SSH. Applicants assess each other’s proposal through anonymous peer review. The Call for proposals of 2026 has 3 rounds. This information concerns the third round. This is the last round of 2026.