HIFIS ensures an excellent information environment for outstanding research in all Helmholtz research fields.
Software
The service portfolio of HIFIS Software is structured into 4 different components that seamlessly interoperate with each other: Education & Training, Technology, Consulting and Community Services.

We build and foster communities to support the necessary cultural change in science when dealing with research software.

We offer free-of-charge consulting in software engineering as a service to research groups under the Helmholtz umbrella.

We provide a sustainable, well integrated and easy to use technology infrastructure for scientific software.

A central software directory tailored to Research Software Engineers and Researchers that want to promote or discover research software.
Cloud
In the Helmholtz Cloud, members of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres provide selected IT-Services for joint use.
Backbone
High-performance trusted network infrastructure with unified basic services.
Overall

We provide learning materials for all purposes related to software engineering and cloud services usage. See also the overview of workshops provided by HIFIS Software that teach foundational software engineering skills.