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**HIFIS supports scientific projects** with IT resources, services, consulting and expertise from the collection, storage, linking and analysis of research data to the publication of the results.
Particular focus is placed on the topic of research software development.
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<h3>Set up and plan your projects</h3>
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HIFIS provides a multitude of Helmholtz Cloud Services that are extremely useful to
<b>set up the collaboration environment with your scientific partners</b>.
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For starters, these services include versatile tools for
document sharing,
collaborative editing,
event management,
chat,
survey creation and analysis,
as well as
project management.
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The complete list and all further information can be found at the
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Helmholtz Cloud Portal</b></a>.
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<h3>Data gathering, processing and testing</h3>
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Collect and process your data with HIFIS provided
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Compute and Storage Ressources</b></a>.
HIFIS sustainably <b>protects
sensitive data</b> by <b>storing and processing all data in Helmholtz-owned data centres</b>.
Test and automate your workflows using best practices in
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Continuous Integration and Deployment</b></a>,
in order to increase reliability and development speed.
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Have a look at our tutorials on our
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Learning Materials
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on best-practices of Software Engineering.
Further, you are invited to check out our
<a href="https://events.hifis.net/category/4"><b><i class="fas fa-external-link-alt"></i>
HIFIS Education & Training
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programme, aiming at employees who are looking for further trainings
in the field of research software development.
Both entry-level and advanced courses are available.
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<h3>Consolidation of your Research</h3>
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Today, there is hardly a scientific project that can be done without the support of scientific software.
Be it software packages developed in-house or third-party applications which are used for the acquisition of scientific knowledge:
The quality, traceability, and reproducibility of research depend to a large extent on those software packages.
HIFIS therefore supports research software development with a wide range of services.
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HIFIS Consulting
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is an individual and free offer for all researchers of the Helmholtz Association.
We will help you with a broad range of topics around research software engineering,
open source,
or questions about the implementation of new or existing software projects.
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<h3>Publication and Re-use</h3>
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HIFIS provides a services for sustainably making the results of your research data accessible.
This includes a
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Cloud Service for Publishing Research Data and Metadata
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with DOI/PID indexing, as well as a (yet prototypic)
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Storage Service</b></a>.
Our <a href="{% link consulting.md %}"><b>
Consulting Service
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can help you with questions on licensing and re-use of your software projects.
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<h3>Queries, comments and suggestions</h3>
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If you have suggestions or questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Contact us! <i class="fas fa-envelope"></i></a>
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