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
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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Hackathon high performance computing with Python and RS-DAT
Would you like to scale your data analyses in Python to clusters and supercomputers? During this hackathon, we will support you in adopting the RS-DAT framework and take your Dask and PyData skills to the next level. Find out more and sign up here.
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Q&A Session - NWO TDCC Funding Call 2026
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 projects. To successfully apply to the call, […]
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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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