diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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-# Contributing to the Project
-
-Thank you for your interest in contributing to this project. Please refer to the
-[contributing guidelines of the Eclipse Dataspace Connector project](https://github.com/eclipse-edc/Connector/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ All transfer samples are located in the `advanced` directory.
 
 ## Contributing
 
-See [how to contribute](CONTRIBUTING.md).
+See [how to contribute](https://github.com/eclipse-edc/docs/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
 
 ## License