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I was the coordinator, and in addition to Ollenburg, we had, for example, already the Alfred Wegener Institute as one of our strategic partners for this application.

And to the big surprise of many, I would say, the mid-sized University of Ollenburg actually made it to the final round of four applications that were then competitively reviewed.

And our application had one major difference to all the other applications, and that is it was the only one where terrestrial and marine biodiversity played roughly equal roles.

But a few years later, must have been 2015 or so, the then director of Alfred Wegner, which was Karin Lochte, contacted me and said, Helmut, I'm seeing what's going on there in Leipzig is really great, but for obvious reasons, there's actually no marine component in there.

So shouldn't we kind of revive our ideas and see whether we can build something without... external funding from our own resources.

So the first idea we actually had was not so much building a new institute, but actually bringing the biodiversity researchers from Alfred Wegener Institute, Essen Helmholtz Center and the University of Oldenburg together.

And while we were thinking about this and discussing both with the different ranks at the university, There was an announcement by the Helmholtz Society asking for bids for new Helmholtz Institutes.

Das ist im Prinzip in dem Moment genau das, worum es uns geht.

Und deshalb haben wir uns auch sehr gefreut, eben mit lokalen RSEs aus Berlin und Brandenburg zusammenzuarbeiten, allen voran mit Alexander und eben auch anderen Engagierten aus den BUA Einrichtungen und darüber hinaus, äh, vom Weizenbaum-Institut, Helmholtz, Max-Planck und auch der Zivilgesellschaft, um eben so 'nen ersten lokalen Research Software Day zu machen.

Auf das Thema offene Wissenschaften, da kommen wir noch mal 'n bisschen zu sprechen später.

Aber jetzt noch mal zu dem Tag selber.

September ein Online Meetup, um den nächsten Research Software Day zu brainstormen mit Leuten, die diesen Event mitorganisieren, gestalten wollen.

Da haben sich schon eine Handvoll Interessierte von verschiedenen Berliner Einrichtungen angemeldet.

Weizenbaum-Institut, Helmholtz Open Science Office und andere.

Und ich werde auch zusammen mit Stefan Janusch vom DE RSE auf der Konferenz, die, die International Research Software Conference in Sheffield im September.