Natural & Engineering Sciences

The Thematic Digital Competence Centre (TDCC) for the Natural & Engineering Sciences (NES) helps domain stakeholders 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.
The TDCC-NES is a network organisation that connects researchers, infrastructure providers, local (institutional) DCC’s and other research support experts, knowledge and expertise networks, as well as other strategic initiatives within the natural and engineering sciences domain. Together the TDCC-NES facilitates the formation of strategies to address digital competency challenges, through alignment, training, 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
Latest from TDCC-NES
When Chemistry Speaks the Same Language: The Role of Ontologies
Reflections from the 4th Ontologies4Chem Workshop by Dr. Sreenithya Avadakkam, Interoperability Community Manager and Trainer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam As an interoperability community manager at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, I spend a...
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More than 60 participants from across The Netherlands, Germany, and Sweden benefitted from an inspiring 2-day workshop to explore how FAIR data principles can be applied to physical research instruments,...
Read articleTurning ideas into action at the National Research Software Day
TDCC-NES: turning ideas into action at the National Research Software Day 2025 The Thematic Digital Competence Centre for the Natural and Engineering Sciences (TDCC-NES) will help to turn ideas into...
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