Our proposal for an Applied Digital Humanities calls for greater emphasis on the societal impact of Digital Humanities research. We are not suggesting to re-invent the wheel though. Research landscapes as in the UK, for instance, have demonstrated a variety of approaches to the societal impact of (Digital) Humanities research. What we are arguing for is a new understanding of applied research that shifts the focus in Digital Humanities from methods and approaches to the societal purposes of our humanities research. This understanding is in line with various initiatives within the humanities which urge for the establishment of "institutions for applied humanities in order to develop perspectives that help society to cope with important societal challenges." <?biblio ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"xgwz1ITv","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Brom 2019, 1)","plainCitation":"(Brom 2019, 1)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":6220,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/1975399/items/V88VNTKW"],"itemData":{"id":6220,"type":"article-journal","container-title":"Palgrave Communications","issue":"1","note":"publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC","title":"Institutionalizing applied humanities: Enabling a stronger role for the humanities in interdisciplinary research for public policy","volume":"5","author":[{"family":"Brom","given":"Frans WA"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2019"]]}},"locator":"1","label":"page"}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"}?>(Brom, 2019, 1). The creation of SUCHO is a response to such a challenge. The urgency for Digital Humanities to evolve becomes even clearer in the current age of polycrisis. The war in Ukraine does not just affect Ukraine: it is an example of a polycrisis where democracies around the globe are under threat.