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    title: HIFIS Mission
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    excerpt:
        Overview of HIFIS Motivation, Structure and Governance.
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    The top position of Helmholtz research is increasingly based on cross-centre and international cooperation and common access to data treasure and -services. At the same time the significance of a sustainable software development for the research process is recognised.
    
    HIFIS aims to ensure an excellent information environment for outstanding research in all Helmholtz research fields and a seamless and performant IT-infrastructure connecting knowledge from all centres. It will build a secure and easy-to-use collaborative environment with efficiently accessible ICT services from anywhere. HIFIS will also support the development of research software with a high level of quality, visibility and sustainability.
    
    
    See [here](https://www.helmholtz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/01_forschung/Helmholtz_Inkubator_HIFIS.pdf) for more details on platform proposal.
    
    
    ## Participating centers
    The following 11 out of 19 Helmholtz centres are partnering for HIFIS:
    
    [AWI](https://www.awi.de/), 
    [DESY](https://www.desy.de/), 
    [DLR](https://www.dlr.de/), 
    [DKFZ](https://www.dkfz.de/), 
    [FZJ](https://www.fz-juelich.de/), 
    [GFZ](https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/), 
    [HMGU](https://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/), 
    [HZB](https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/), 
    [HZDR](https://www.hzdr.de/), 
    [KIT](https://www.kit.edu/), 
    [UFZ](https://www.ufz.de/).
    
    
    
    ## Technical Documentation
    For HIFIS technical documentation, see [here](https://hifis.pages.hzdr.de/hifis-technical-documentation/).
    
    HIFIS is embedded in the context of the [Helmholtz Information & Data Science Incubator](incubator) and hence has close collaboration with the four other incubator platforms:
    * [Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy (HIDA)](https://www.helmholtz-hida.de/)
    * [Helmholtz Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Unit (Helmholtz AI)](https://www.helmholtz.ai/)
    * Helmholtz Imaging Platform (HIP)
    * [Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration](https://helmholtz-metadaten.de)
    
    To achieve its goals, HIFIS works in three Competence Clusters which are distributed throughout different Helmholtz research centers:
    * [Cloud Services](cluster_cloud): Federated platform for proven first class cloud services;
    * [Backbone Services](cluster_backbone): High-performance trusted network infrastructure with unified basic services;
    * [Software Services](cluster_software): Platform, training and support for high-quality, sustainable software development.
    
    To ensure that HIFIS's progress and strategy is consistent with the common principles of the Helmholtz Association,
    [Reporting, Governance and an external Scientific Advisory Board](governance) are central.