4TU.ResearchData and the Thematic Digital Competence Centre for Natural and Engineering Sciences (TDCC NES) 

4TU.ResearchData hosts the Thematic DCC for the natural and engineering sciences which began its second year of operation during 2024. The aim of the TDCC NES is to ensure researchers and support staff have the competencies, services and tools necessary to manage data and software in a FAIR manner, by identifying challenges that are common across multiple institutions and initiating collaborative projects to mitigate them.

The Teaming Up Across Domains event kicked off the collaborations with more than 200 participants. It supported the first open project call and was followed by several project development events:

• Putting software sustainability into practice, an interactive session at ICT.Open
• FAIR4ChemNL workshop, a knowledge exchange and project-building workshop with participants from across the Netherlands and Germany
• Geospatial machine learning models project initiation event.

These, and more, are resulting in a number of active TDCC-NES projects that will run during 2025 and beyond.