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+title: HIFIS Mission
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+excerpt:
+    Overview of HIFIS Motivation, Structure and Governance.
+---
+
+## Intention of HIFIS
+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.
+
+## Internal structure
+To achieve its goals, HIFIS works in three Competence Clusters which are distributed throughout different Helmholtz research centers, 
+a Cloud Services Cluster (a federated platform for proven first class cloud services), 
+a Backbone Services Cluster (high-performance trusted network infrastructure with unified basic services) and 
+a Software Services Cluster (platform, training and support for high-quality, sustainable software development)
+
+See [here] (competence_centers) for more detailed description of competence centers.
+
+## External supervision
+[Governance] (governance)
+
+