What structure do you consider most suitable for a national research software institution?

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Question code: org5de

Detected type: Single select

Answer order: frequency fallback

Number of answers: 199

This question was requested by FutuRSI for the 2026 survey.

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• The physical representation is likely less important than the decision making. I think it is important that it is an entity and not subsumed into other institutions, cf. eScience in the Netherlands.

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No single organisational model stood out clearly from the others. The leading preference was a central institution working with decentralised partners, while regional hubs without a central institution and a central institute with several locations also received considerable support. This points towards a distributed model that combines national coordination with local autonomy; and one respondent noted that physical location may matter less than transparent decision-making and a clearly distinct institutional role.

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