Projects and Collaborations
As a research group for Research Software Engineering, our main project is JuRSE (Jülich Research Software Engineering).
This is an initiative started in 2022 to share good scientific practice in research software engineering and create a professional community of practice for all those doing research software engineering in their research at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
We take an active role in the global initiative to recognise the importance of research software as a first class research output, acknowledging the role of good research software engineering practices in providing reliable research software. Our aim is also to raise the visibility and skills of those scientists, researchers and students doing research software engineering at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Collaborations
We work closely with these partners below on various aspects of our work in research software engineering.
Joint Lab HiRSE: Helmholtz Information - Research Software Engineering
The HiRSE concept (“Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering”) sees the establishment of central activities in RSE and the targeted sustainable funding of strategically important codes by so-called Community Software Infrastructure (CSI) groups as mutually supportive aspects of a single entity.
In a first “preparatory study”, HiRSE_PS evaluated the core elements of the HiRSE concept and their interactions in practice over the funding period of three years. One work package dealt with the operation of CSI groups, in particular also for young codes, and a second one with consulting and networking. The goal of the preparatory study was the further refinement of the concept, which can then be rolled out to the entire Helmholtz Information, or, if desired, to the entire Helmholtz Association with high prospects of success and high efficiency.
As of October 2024, HiRSE is now the (flexible) Joint Lab “Helmholtz Information - Research Software Engineering”, with an extended funded period until the end of 2027.
This project is funded by the Innovation Fund of Helmholtz Information of the Helmholtz Association as well as by the four participating partners.
Contact at Forschungszentrum Jülich: Dr. Robert Speck
Project page: https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/
Software development is an essential, integral part of research activity. Research software increasingly supports the acquisition, processing and analysis of empirical data, but also the modeling and the simulation of complex processes. Researchers, scientists and others developing software in and for research within the German scientific landscape have come together in the de-RSE community in order to considerably boost the visibility of this topic, and to decisively improve the current recognition of research software engineers. de-RSE aims at constituting a wider initiative for acting jointly on shared objectives, and being the collective spokesperson for RSEs within the German scientific landscape.
Project page: https://de-rse.org
Special Interest Group RSE of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)
With around 20,000 personal and 250 corporate members, the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) is the largest and most important professional society for computer science in the German-speaking world and has represented the interests of computer scientists in science, business, public administration, society and politics since 1969. The Special Interest Group RSE is a joint institution of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) and de-RSE e.V. (Gesellschaft für Forschungssoftware). The group aims to provide a forum for the interface between software engineering research and the RSE community.
Contact at Forschungszentrum Jülich: Dr. Robert Speck