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International 2026 RSE survey is now live!

January 23, 2026

The 🌐 international 2026 #RSE survey https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/611257 is now live, and for the first time, #Switzerland 🇨🇭is participating!

You don’t need to be called a research software engineer to complete the survey. Your formal job title is irrelevant – if you write code for academic research as part of your work, we want to hear from you!

The survey collects a considerable amount of detail about your role, the type of work you do, your working practices, job satisfaction, and demographics. This means it will take around 20 minutes to complete – we appreciate that this is a significant amount of time to ask for, and we thank you for it!

The call for proposals for FAIR competence funding is now open

January 15, 2026

The new call for proposals for FAIR Competence Funding is now open. You can find the call and all related documents here.

Please note that the FAIR Competence Funding scheme is being launched as part of the ETH FAIR Coalition project. This institution-wide initiative, led by Annette Oxenius, Vice President for Research, and Ueli Weidmann, Vice President for Infrastructure and Sustainability, aims to further implement the FAIR principles at ETH Zurich.

At the New Year Town Hall Meeting, Annette Oxenius will invited all ETH researchers and members of staff to sign the FAIR Coalition Charter. The Charter sets out a shared commitment to the FAIR principles and defines core values and decision-making processes. We hope that many ETH researchers and staff members will decide to support the FAIR principles and sign the Charter.

Preannouncement: ETH Zurich FAIR Competence Funding

December 19, 2025

Are you an ETH member who handles research data and code as part of your work? Would you like to help implement the FAIR principles at ETH Zurich? Do you have ideas on how to share your expertise and services with a wider community of ETH researchers?

ETH Zurich is testing a new funding scheme as part of a broader initiative to implement the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) for digital research assets such as code, data, notes, metadata and images. These FAIR Competence Funding Grants will be up to 50k CHF for a maximum of 18 months to support the further training of RDM specialists and the expansion of the RDM services they provide.

RSE Newsletter #1 - 2025Q4

December 15, 2025

Dear all,

Welcome to the first issue of the Swiss Research Software Engineering Community Newsletter. We are delighted to introduce the new national network, look back at recent activities, share developments from across Switzerland and abroad, and give you an idea of what is coming next. This edition brings together updates from initiatives that are actively shaping the future of a Swiss RSE community.

EPFL Community Building Workshop

December 10, 2025

After one year of renewed interest in RSEs at EPFL, we set out to define how we want to go forward. With representatives of nearly all RSE groups at EPFL, we worked on filling out the Minimum Viable Community canvas. It was a fun experience and is the start of a working on a more consolidated RSE representation at EPFL.

Human Resources are conducting a survey on 'Defining careers related to research data management and software engineering in the ETH Domain'

December 8, 2025

We are pleased to share the following announcement from Measure 5 of the ETH domain ORD funding programme.

Please complete the survey at this link to help promote the RSE job title and improve hiring and career opportunities for RSEs within the ETH domain.

Whether you are a dedicated Research Data Manager, Research Software Engineer, or a researcher who manages data or software as a part of your work, we want to hear from you!