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**HIFIS supports Research Software Engineering** with Education & Training, Consulting, Platform and Community Services.

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        <h3>Education & Training</h3>
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        We offer courses, materials, and workshops to help you in getting started, or to boost your engineering practices.
        Check out the
        [HIFIS Events page](https://events.hifis.net/category/4/) or the
        [HIDA course catalog](https://www.helmholtz-hida.de/course-catalog/en/) for upcoming HIFIS courses and events.
        [Course material](https://gitlab.com/hifis/hifis-workshops) is available for use and reuse under a Creative Commons License.
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        Can’t find exactly what you’re looking for? [Talk to us directly](mailto:support@hifis.net).
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        <h3>Consulting</h3>
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        HIFIS offers free-of-charge consulting as a service to research groups under the Helmholtz umbrella.
        We can help you to deal with specific licensing issues, pointing out solutions on how
        to improve your software or setting up a new projects.
        We are also very happy to discuss other software engineering topics such as software engineering process in general.
        We kindly ask you to fill out a few questions to request a consultation.
        [Request a consultation now!]({% link services/software/consulting.html %})
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        <h3>Platform and Cloud Services for Research Software Development</h3>
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        We provide a sustainable, well integrated, easy-to-use Technology Infrastructure and Cloud Service Portfolio for scientific software. For an overview, have a look at our [Cloud Services Portal](https://helmholtz.cloud/services).</p><p markdown=1>
        We offer the [Helmholtz Codebase](https://helmholtz.cloud/services?serviceDetails=codebase-hzdr) to all Helmholtz, disregarding the centre affiliation.
        A feature overview is available [here]({% link services/software/helmholtzgitlab.html %}).
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        In addition, a [chat service](https://helmholtz.cloud/services?serviceDetails=mattermost-hzdr) to foster team communication is available for all of Helmholtz.
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        <h3>Communities</h3>
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        We build and foster communities to support the necessary cultural change in science when dealing with research software.
        We have plans to establish a Helmholtz-wide Research Software Directory (RSD) to support the findability and reusability
        of research software.
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        In addition, we implement the [Helmholtz Software Spotlights]({% link spotlights.md %})
        as the public face of the Helmholtz Network for Research Software Engineering.
        The collection is intended to become a "flagship" of the Helmholtz Association
        for research software that appeals equally to research, citizens, industry and politics.
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        All details are available on the [Community page]({% link services/software/communities.html %}).
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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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