I work in an academic research software development team. We develop software that helps researchers execute neuroscientific models on HPC. Funding is our bigge

I work in an academic research software development team. We develop software that helps researchers execute neuroscientific models on HPC. Funding is our biggest headache. Currently we're funded through a (very) large EU grant, which gave our project a runway, but we find that nobody in general is funding such supportive (but essential) projects. Research funding is tied to scientific outputs (i.e. papers), and not anything else. We're trying to get some researchers interested in getting funding together, but it's not going very well, and we don't expect to be able to keep our current strength. If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears!