Project Funding: Innovative Software for Modern Research

DFG makes finance available for three projects on quality assurance of research software. The continuing development and long-term quality assurance of research software is the priority of three projects at Heidelberg University that were successful in a call by the German Research Foundation (DFG). One project is based in biomedicine, two others in geography. Participating are scientists in the respective disciplines as well as experts from the Scientific Software Center, which is based in the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing at Ruperto Carola. The DFG is making funding totalling approximately 1.2 million euros available for three years. The project teams involved will be able to improve the quality of available software and make it available to a wider group of users. A challenge facing modern, digital research is that science increasingly depends on the use and development of customised research software, for which the necessary resources and structures are, however, often limited or lacking, explains Jürgen Hesser, director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) and scientific coordinator of the Scientific Software Center (SSC).