Natural & Engineering Sciences
The Thematic Digital Competence Centre (TDCC) for the Natural & Engineering Sciences (NES) is a network organisation that brings together researchers, local (institutional) DCC’s and other research support experts, infrastructure providers, knowledge and expertise networks, as well as other strategic initiatives within the NES domain.
The aim of the TDCC-NES is to ensure researchers and support staff have the competencies, the services, and the tools necessary to manage and work with data and software in a FAIR manner, by identifying challenges specific to the natural and engineering sciences domain that are common across multiple institutions and initiating collaborative projects to mitigate them.
See below for our latest events and news
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
TDCC-NES Governing Board meeting, March 2026
Date and time: 12 March 2026, 09:00 – 12:15. Location: Online Agenda BREAK
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Training - High performance computing with Python and RS-DAT
Would you like to scale your data analyses in Python to clusters and supercomputers? In this course, you will learn how to do this with the RS-DAT framework using Dask, Jupyter and Pydata tooling. Find out more and sign up here.
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Cloud-Native Data in Natural and Engineering Sciences: CLOUD-NES Symposium
Wednesday, 1 April 2026 9:00–17:00Utrecht Find out more and sign up here Join us for the first CLOUD-NES Symposium, a national event dedicated to advancing cloud-native data access and processing in the Natural and Engineering Sciences (NES). Be part of CLOUD-NES: Facilitating Cloud-Native Data Access and Processing for Natural and Engineering Sciences, an initiative dedicated to […]
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Latest from TDCC-NES
Turning 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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Help to Shape the Future of Digital Skills Training in the NES Domain
The TDCC-NES–funded project “Building digital skills training and lesson development capacity in the Netherlands NES domain” is conducting a short survey to gather input from the community. The project aims...
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Creating space for our community: the story of our NES Col-Lab Retreat
Creating space for our community: the story of our NES Col-Lab Retreat How did we get to organising a retreat? The role of the Thematic Digital Competence Centre (TDCC) for...
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