# Business case

###### tags: `CodeRefinery`

This document: https://hackmd.io/@coderefinery/business-case

### Software quality

- Code produced in the Nordics becomes more citable.
- More researchers are sharing their software and data according to FAIR principles.
- Increasing the number and diversity of codes being able to access national, pre-exascale, and exascale systems.
- Better resource use of HPC.
- More software developed and published in the Nordics with an increased participation in EOSC and EuroHPC joint undertaking calls (with the possibility of joint Nordic participation).
- More researchers have the prerequisite skills to benefit from national research computing, PRACE, EuroHPC and Euro national competence centre (ENCC) offerings.

### Training practices

- Less reinventing training solutions.
- Improved training practices in the Nordics.
- Alignment of scientific research programming efforts in the Nordics.
- Other projects explicitly consider their training philosophies and attend CodeRefinery training.
- Openness in teaching is allowed without special permission, can be bottom-up: can combine openness with special benefit for organization and minimum extra work.

### Training portfolio

- More training offered at each partner organization, for less work total. Lower costs of training for participating organizations with a significant increase of the quality (both of the training material and the delivery).
- Broader and deeper portfolio of training offerings by working together.
- Finding common interest and focus areas over several sites.
- Additional topics in the CodeRefinery lesson portfolio.
- Reusable and open training material.
- Higher quality training material and focus on real needs of researchers.
- More training courses offered to the community.
- More trainers, everyone able to competently teach courses in their speciality.
- More instructors in the Nordics capable of co-creating, co-maintaining and co-delivering high-quality training on foundational coding, data science skills and associated best software practices.

### Organization and community

- Adapt the collaboration to a workflow where the main share of staff hours will be in kind and from community.
- CodeRefinery becomes a non-profit organization.
- Organizations can become CodeRefinery partners.
- Development of a sustainable and dynamic community of individuals that are motivated to participate in and contribute to material development.
- Project benefits are more sustainable and outlive the 3-year project period.
- Better credit for volunteer contributions.
- Supporting diversity and improving equality of researchers writing and publishing research software.
- Increased collaboration among Nordic personnel, with benefits for other projects beyond CodeRefinery.

### Mentoring and career development

- Instructor/mentor training for other NeIC projects: all technical staff should be good at teaching and mentoring in their competence.
- Teaching and mentoring community: other researchers are activated to help their peers, reducing our overall workload.
- Instructor training benefits not only future CodeRefinery instructors but also instructors and future workshops given within ENCC and on a national scope.
- Career development for in-kind staff.