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:
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
Q&A Session - NWO TDCC Funding Call 2026
03 June 2026, 15.00 – 16.30 CEST Together with the NWO, we are organizing this general Q&A session about the 2026 NWO funding call for TDCC projects. The NWO will open another funding call to address the ambitions and challenges defined in each TDCC’s roadmap (and the recent addendums, where applicable) through collaborative and non-competitive […]
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Latest from TDCC-NES
FAIR4Instruments - bringing research instruments into the FAIR landscape
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,...
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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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