Training Coordinators

Community of Practice

informal network to share training experiences

The Community of Practice for Training Coordinators (CoP) is an informal network to share training experiences initiated by a group of people who coordinate training programmes of research and e-infrastructures. This initiative of starting a Community of Practice for training coordinators aims to map out the training activities of various pan-European, EOSC-related initiatives and strengthen their training capacity by improved alignment, sharing experiences and good practices, initiating cross-infrastructure training activities.

Background: One of the outcomes of the EUDAT project final conference was to set up several training workshops across Europe. At the EUDAT end conference the team, including OpenAIRE, proposed to continue collaboration, independent of projects, in a bottom up initiative for a Community of Practice for training coordinators. The idea was welcomed at the education and training group of the RDA and OpenAIRE has taken up coordination activities.

Activities

On 6 September 2018 the CoP was launched with a first online call. This call was followed up by a monthly call ever since. The CoP calls are about exchanging news about training related topics such as the EOSC training portal, new training offerings by projects or infrastructures, how to create badges, curricula, etc. As a member you receive an invite to the monthly calls.

During the DI4R in October 2018 the CoP organised a first face to face meeting: “Have a CoP of T in our cafe” (see here). Two other meetings took place at the Open Science FAIR in Porto (September 2019) on Making EOSC Training More FAIR and at the EOSC Symposium in Budapest (November 2019) on Skills development for EOSC - Competences and Training infrastructure for EOSC. A three-day workshop on Training in the EOSC in February 2020 in the Hague released recommendations on the Rules of Participation for training and practical guidance for training service providers. GDPR and training: How to organize GDPR compliant online events webinar took place in October. And How to effectively engage a community? session took place on November 18.

Virtual meetings

Previous meetings: Gdoc

Planned virtual meetings:
2021 (at 2PM CET)

12 January
9 February
9 March
13 April
11 May
8 June
13 July
10 August
14 September
12 October
9 November
14 December

Slack channel

There is a Slack channel available by invitation for the members of the CoP for discussing topics, e.g. new train the trainer toolkits and share news.

Membership

Since the start of the Community of Practice in September, the training coordinators from several projects including projects preparing the European Open Science Cloud where already present, e.g. EOSCpilot, EOSC-hub. The CoP is for training coordinators in communities, projects and research infrastructures. In the list below the current members are listed with their affiliation, project or research infrastructure.

How to become a member

Send an email to Iryna Kuchma, iryna.kuchma [at] eifl.net

Current members

Helen Clare, JISC and EOSC Synergy (chair)
Iryna Kuchma, EIFL, OpenAIRE, FOSTER (co-chair)
Ellen Leenarts, DANS, OpenAIRE, EOSCpilot, FAIRsFAIR, SSHOC
René van Horik, DANS, EOSC-Hub, FREYA, CESSDA-trust
Ademosu I. E., Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority
Alen Vodopijevec, IRB, OpenAIRE
Alexia de Casanove, CINES
Alicia Gomez Sanchez, TU Wien Bibliothek
Angus Whyte, DCC, EOSCpilot, FAIRsFAIR
Antónia Correia, University of Minho, RDA-PT, FOSTER Plus, FIT4RRI, ON-MERRIT
Carmen Jambé, Université de Lausanne
Celia van Gelder, DTL/ELIXIR-NL, ELIXIR, FAIRsFAIR, EOSC-life
Chantal Huijbers, Griffith University, Australia, ecoEd, BCCVL, ecocloud
Christopher Erdmann, University of California
Daniel Bangert, Digital Repository of Ireland
Deborah Thorpe, Digital Repository of Ireland
Džalila Muharemagić, University of Bihać
Elisha Teo, Aalborg University Copenhagen, INOS Project
Ellen Verbakel, Essentials 4 Data Support
Elli Papadopoulou, Athena Research & Innovation Center, OpenAIRE, RDA
Emma Lazzeri, CNR-ISTI, OpenAIRE, RDA
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, DARIAH
Eva Hnatkova, National Library of Technology
Evangelia Triantafyllou, Aalborg University Copenhagen, INOS (Integrating open and citizen science into active learning approaches in higher education) project
Evgeny Bobrov, Berlin Institute of Health, QUEST – Quality | Ethics | Open Science | Translation, Center for Transforming Biomedical Research
Fotis E. Psomopoulos, INAB - Institute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH - Center for Research and Technology Hellas
Frances Madden, British Library, FREYA
Gergely Sipos, EGI, EOSC-hub
Giuseppe La Rocca, EGI, EOSC-hub
Helene Brinken, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
Hugh Shanahan, Royal Holloway, CODATA-RDA schools
Ilaria Fava, Goettingen University, OpenAIRE
Irena Vipavc Brvar, UL, CESSDA, SSHOC
Janice Ansine, Citizen Science at the Open University, Cos4Cloud project
Jeannette Ekstrøm, DTU
Johannes Blumenberg, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Johanna Havemann, Access 2 Perspectives, AfricArXiv
Jonathan England, LU, OpenAIRE
Katerina Zourou, Web2Learn, INOS (Integrating open and citizen science into active learning approaches in higher education) project
Katherine Flynn, ISEKI Food Association and FoodCloud
Kerry Miller, The University of Edinburgh
Kerstin Helbig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Kevin Ashley, DCC
Linas Čepinskas, DANS, FAIRsFAIR and EOSC Synergy
Linda Martin, Bielefeld University
Lowri Harris, University of Wales Trinity Saint David and FoodCloud
Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska, Gdansk University of Technology
Maggie Hellström, Lund University, ENVRI
Marcel Ras, NCDP
Mareike Buss, CBS
Maria Manuel Borges, University of Coimbra
Mathilde Panes, EPFL Library
Mijke Jetten, Radboud University
Natasha Simons, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
Nicola Fiore, LifeWatch ERIC, ENVRI FAIR
Pedro L. Fernandes, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Pedro Principe, University of Minho, OpenAIRE, FIT4RRI, FAIRsFAIR
Sanja Drakulic, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Silvia Wissel, ZBW
Sonja Filiposka, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje, NI4OS project
Stefanie Strebel, Universität Zürich
Tatsiana Yankelevich, LIBER
Valerie Brasse, euroCRIS - The International Organisation for Research Information
Vasso Kalaitzi, LIBER, SSHOC
Venkat Shanmugasundaram, DCC
Veronika Keck, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Vicky Garnett, DARIAH
Vid Svaksha, VIB