NFDI4Ing represents the engineering community. At its core, the consortium NFDI4Ing consists of eleven member institutions that together applied for the initial funding. Each member introduces its specific expertise and experience to the joint work programme. Furthermore, the consortium has a great number of participants from all over the German engineering research landscape. All members and participants are part of wider national and international networks such as CRCs and further collaborative research projects, RDM specific networks, and learned societies, many of which initially signed letters of support. Our open governance model (see Structure & Governance) allows to leverage these wider networks as needed, e.g. to gain special expertise and pilot users. It also ensures our work programme constantly evolves to adress the needs of the engineering community, as new participants can easily be integrated into the existing governance structure (e.g. through our seed fund programme). The consortium continues to grow and now consists of more than 50 institutions and an even greater number of individual researchers.