Natural & Engineering Sciences
The Thematic Digital Competence Centre (TDCC) for the Natural & Engineering Sciences (NES) helps Dutch researchers and digital support experts to explore their digital competency challenges and to find solutions through connection and collaboration.
This contributes to improved research efficiency and effectiveness, and reduces fragmentation and repetition across the domain.
Together with domain stakeholders, the TDCC-NES facilitates the formation of strategies to address digital competency challenges, through alignment, knowledge development, application of tools, and adaption of infrastructure.
Explore how the work of the TDCC-NES is organised through the current work programme, the original roadmap, the governance structure, our ontology engineer service (which helps research teams with metadata alignment and ontology implementation), and the projects:
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The TDCC-NES is an investment by NWO as part of the implementation plan for investments in digital research infrastructure in the Netherlands. It is also supported in-kind by its stakeholders and is hosted in the 4TU.ResearchData team at TU Delft. Funding supports a small staff office, network activities, and an annual project funding call.
Upcoming TDCC-NES Events
PIDFest 2026
Dutch researchers and digital support experts working on the identification of scientific instruments using permanent identifiers (PIDs) will be well-represented at PIDFest in October this year and will make useful connections for aligning with similar international efforts aimed at recognising scientific instruments in the FAIR workflow. TDCC-NES has an interest in this topic since organising […]
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Latest from TDCC-NES
Join the TDCC-NES project initiative meetings 2026
The following three project ideas are being developed into full proposals. Each project team will organise an initiative meeting in the coming weeks, where the broader NES community has an...
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Open Call: Apply Now for Carpentries Instructor Training
Applications are open for the second and round of Carpentries Instructor Training seats under the DC4NES project. This Open Call offers 30 seats directly to individual applicants, from any Dutch...
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TDCC-NES research instrument activities to be presented at PIDFest 2026
The findings of the TDCC-NES FAIR4Instruments workshop, will be presented at PIDFest 2026, the international conference on persistent identifiers, which will take place from 27 to 29 October in Leiden....
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