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
TDCC-NES booth at NWO Biophysics
The Thematic Digital Competence Centre for the Natural and Engineering Sciences (TDCC-NES) will host a visitors booth at NWO Biophysics 2026 to inform participants about opportunities offered for exploring shared challenges and the NES ontology service. NWO Biophysics is the annual Dutch conference on the physics of life, where researchers, from PhD students and postdocs […]
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Workshop | co-organized by FAIR4ChemNL and NFDI4Cat
Data-centred approaches in chemistry hold the promise of uncovering groundbreaking solutions critical for advancing energy and material transitions, pharmaceutical innovations, and circular economy endeavours. Since the FAIR4ChemNL workshop in June 2024, important developments have emerged across the Dutch and German chemistry communities – yet the potential of data to drive discovery and innovation remains underutilized, […]
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Latest from TDCC-NES
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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Opportunity to receive Carpentries’ Collaborative Lesson Development Training (NES domain)
Applications are now open for the next call of the TDCC-NES project Building digital skills training and lesson development capacity in the Netherlands NES domain (DC4NES). Full details of the call...
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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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