The Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and the Netherlands eScience Center are hosting a two-day international workshop to set the future agenda for national and international funders to support sustainable research software.

As the importance of software in research has become increasingly apparent, so has the urgent need to sustain it. Funders can play a crucial role in this respect by ensuring structural support. Over the past few years, a variety of methods for sustaining research software have been explored, including improving and extending funding policies and instruments. During the workshop, funding organizations will join forces to explore how they can effectively contribute to making research software sustainable.

Additional support to increase accessibility will be available on request. Online opportunities will be provided to contribute to discussions around and during the conference, and recordings of the plenary presentations will be made available.

Please note this workshop is open to national research funding organizations, by invitation. If you are interested in attending but have not received an invitation, please contact us at events@esciencecenter.nl

In this modern age, research is nearly impossible to do without research software. One of top priorities at the Netherlands eScience Center has always been to obtain recognition for research software and the role of research software engineers (RSEs) behind it. But the world of research is international, and pulling this off on a global level requires the minds of many experts across many institutions to work together.

About the Workshop

In workshop sessions, participants will discuss how funders can contribute to the following workshop themes:

Theme	Description
Open science & software sustainability	Clarify how software sustainability should relate to and fits into existing and emerging open science policies
Funding instruments	Improve and adjust funding mechanisms within and across institutional or national boundaries to facilitate the development, use and maintenance of sustainable research software
Rewards, culture & research assessment	Define and establish measures that support the recognition of people involved in the development of sustainable research software