Building reflective societies and tackling societal challenges cannot be achieved with technology alone: humanistic knowledge is essential if we want to understand the present, contextualise the past and imagine a future. Humanistic disciplines encourage critical thinking while providing the tools for curating meaningful change. This is why DARIAH’s vision of the arts and humanities being anchored at the centre of a technologically evolving knowledge society is so important: it extends far beyond the ivory towers of academia. DARIAH's mission to empower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society is interdisciplinary by nature and collaborative by design. By coordinating infrastructural efforts in 22 member countries and across a network of more than 300 partner institutions (along with 19 cooperating partners in 11 non-member countries), DARIAH plays a pivotal role in facilitating access to knowledge, data and services in the European Research Area. Researchers in the arts and humanities (A&H) come from many backgrounds: they are steeped in different epistemic cultures, and work across languages, data types and media. To cater to such a diverse audience, DARIAH fosters a culture of cross-sectoral collaboration among humanists, technologists, data managers and cultural heritage experts. This collaborative, holistic and integrated approach ensures that DARIAH can effectively support the digital needs of a wide-ranging community of scholars. DARIAH actively advances the frontiers of science and technology through its four strategic pillars. 1) Delivering state-of-the-art services: DARIAH maintains an extensive catalogue of more than 200 tools and services designed to support digitally-enabled A&H research. 2) Providing high-quality training and education: DARIAH substantially complements and contextualises the technical provision of services by organising various training measures, including workshops, summer schools, master classes, hackathons, etc. 3) Strengthening transnational and transdisciplinary communities: DARIAH establishes and operates innovative organisational frameworks such as Working Groups, Regional Hubs and Cooperating Partnerships. These structures encourage communities to self-organise around emerging research topics, while DARIAH supports them by providing communication channels, funding, networking and mobility opportunities. 4) Overcoming barriers in research policy: DARIAH is a vocal advocate of digital A&H scholars in ongoing Open Science policy debates around Europe and is active in various initiatives and bodies such as SSHOC, EOSC, or ERIC Forum.