Outreach and funding programmes

Conferences and workshops

• RSE conferences and unconferences are regularly organized in Germany, Nordics, UK, USA, etc.

• A list of conferences and mailing lists can be found on the ICP wiki

Funding opportunities

• Research Software Alliance

  • funding for software quality assurance, new software, and RSE positions

• Horizon Europe

  • funding for HPC projects

  • proposals must be international

  • examples: CoE MultiXscale, CoE ChEESE, complete database of Stuttgart tenders

• DFG Information for Researchers RSS feed

  • calls for DFG funding programmes and funding-related news

  • past RSE-specific programmes:

    • 2022 Research Software – Quality Assured and Re-usable (see proposal for grant 528726435)

    • 2019 Quality assurance of research software through its sustainable utilization

    • 2016 Research Software Sustainability (see proposal for grant 391126171)

  • grant proposals that request extra funding for RSEing or software must adhere to the “Handling of Research Software in the DFG’s Funding Activities” guidelines

  • to search for funded RSE projects in the GEPRIS database, click on “Show extended search”, go to section “DFG Programme”, select “Scientific Library Services and Information Systems” in the programme field and “Research data and software” in the programme line field

• DFG Major Research Instrumentation Programme (Forschungsgroßgeräte)

  • continuously open DFG call for clusters costing between €100,000 and €7,500,000

  • the ICP was awarded grant no. 492175459 in 2022 for the Ant cluster (see proposal) and grant no. 261833929 in 2014 for the Bee cluster

• NumFOCUS

  • funding for research software

  • quartely calls

Hiring HPC and RSE people

• A list of job platforms and instructions to publish job postings is available on the ICP wiki