The HiRSE Code Promotion - shining a light on your work

Researchers, postdocs, and students at German universities and research centres write great research software. The HiRSE team wants to make that more visible by bringing your software to the attention of the RSE Community and beyond. We’re looking for research software created, extended and/or maintained by people working at German institutions to join our latest initiative. This is not meant exclusively, we of course welcome also software written by international teams, as long as there is a substantial contribution coming from Germany.

Provide us with the details of your software using our form and we will create your promo slide that will be shown ahead of a HiRSE Seminar and during HiRSE event breaks.

Quick overview

Following the start of this HiRSE initiative right at the beginning of summer 2024, only 4 weeks later we have heard back from almost 50 developers or teams of developers, eager to present their work. The replies have come from a rather diverse set of codes spanning multiple scientific disciplines and range from frontends to existing codes to codes providing services to simulation codes running at the largest supercomputers.

A common theme for many of them: the wish for sustainable funding not only for lighthouse projects and new developments, but also for established codes. Of course, they also want to increase their community and look for widespread use of their codes, otherwise they would not be here.

The Research Software Directory

Since this is about visibility, awareness and promotion of reseach software, we would also like to highlight the Helmholtz Research Software Directory. If the software is at least co-developed at a Helmholtz centre, this is the place to put it. It is tailored to Research Software Engineers and Researchers from Helmholtz that want to promote or discover research software. The Helmholtz Research Software Directory is an adaption of the eScience Center’s Research Software Directory.