# Mapping RSE landscape in Finland

## Timeline

- Talk to Aalto (after 22.5)
- Material scouting
- Talk to known researchers

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## Ask from Aalto, Richard and Enrico

- What do they know about RSEs in Finland and potential RSE needs

- What would they need support from CSC with?

- You know other RSE-like/ RSE interested people?

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## Ask from known research groups

- How it is currently going in research groups that write code?
- researchers write code themselves?
- FAIR practices?
- reusability?

- Do you have: Unmaintained code, undocumented, code that only works on one machine, ... ? From people coming and leaving all the time.
- How does this affect your research?
- slow, difficult,...

- Time spent on "passing information to the next generation"

- FAIR data publications?

- would you be willing to pay for this support?
- include it already in the project application/grant proposal

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### Finland funding landscape with regard to RSE

- check funding opportunities if they mention FAIR research software

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## CSC Management

- RSE at CSC: https://siili.rahtiapp.fi/RSEatCSC#

- CodeRefinery "teaching RSEs"

- RSE: central and multi disciplinary
- equal oppotrunity for all universities and research institutes

- even if they have "some" RSE, they might be able to cover every domain/field; coordination needed

- money:
- we do already have sub-contracting

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- awareness of RSE?

- Is there a problem? Are RSEs needed?

- Are they "infrastructure"?

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Short text about Research Software Engineer:

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Aim to develop these services in Finland

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Nordic-RSE: RSE landscape mapping

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## Materials/References that might help

RSEs in HPC Centers: Funding, Coordinating, Doing: https://zenodo.org/records/10171904