Community of Practice for training coordinators

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). At the Open Science FAIR in Porto (September 2019) and the RDA Plenary in Helsinki (October 2019) the CoP is planning to meet again.

Virtual meetings

Previous meetings: Gdoc

Planned virtual meetings:
2020 (the first Tuesday each month at 2PM CET)

9 January
4 February
3 March
7 April
5 May
2 June
7 July
4 August
1 September
6 October
3 November
8 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

Iryna Kuchma, EIFL, OpenAIRE, FOSTER (Coordinator)
Ellen Leenarts, DANS, OpenAIRE, EOSCpilot, FAIRsFAIR, SSHOC (Co-coordinator)
René van Horik, DANS, EOSC-Hub, FREYA, CESSDA-trust (Co-coordinator)
Ademosu I. E., Lagos State Physical Planning Permit Authority
Alen Vodopijevec, IRB, OpenAIRE
Alexia de Casanove, CINES
Angus Whyte, DCC, EOSCpilot, FAIRsFAIR
Antónia Correia, University of Minho, RDA-PT, FOSTER Plus, FIT4RRI, ON-MERRIT
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, Goettingen University, RDA
Deborah Thorpe, Digital Repository of Ireland
Ellen Verbakel, Essentials 4 Data Support
Elli Papadopoulou, Athena Research & Innovation Center, OpenAIRE, RDA
Emma Lazzeri, CNR-ISTI, OpenAIRE, RDA
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, DARIAH
Evangelia Triantafyllou, Aalborg University Copenhagen, INOS (Integrating open and citizen science into active learning approaches in higher education) project
Fotis E. Psomopoulos, INAB - Institute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH - Center for Research and Technology Hellas
Frances Madden, British Library, FREYA
Friedel Grant, LIBER
Gergely Sipos, EGI, EOSC-hub
Giuseppe La Rocca, EGI, EOSC-hub
Helene Brinken, Georg-August-University Göttingen, RDA EU, FIT4RRI and FOSTER
Helen Clare, JISC and EOSC Synergy
Hugh Shanahan, Royal Holloway, CODATA-RDA schools
Ilaria Fava, Goettingen University, OpenAIRE
Irena Vipavc Brvar, UL, CESSDA, SSHOC
Irina Mikhailava, GÉANT
Jeannette Ekstrøm, DTU
Jonathan England, LU, OpenAIRE
Katerina Zourou, Web2Learn, INOS (Integrating open and citizen science into active learning approaches in higher education) project
Kerry Miller, The University of Edinburgh
Kerstin Helbig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Kevin Ashley, DCC
Marcel Ras, NCDP
Mareike Buss, CBS
Maria Manuel Borges, University of Coimbra
Martina Torma, LIBER
Mijke Jetten, Radboud University
Mojca Kotar, University of Ljubljana
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
Silvia Wissel, ZBW
Sonja Filiposka, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje, NI4OS project
Tobias Steiner, Goettingen University, OpenAIRE
Valerie Brasse, euroCRIS - The International Organisation for Research Information
Vasso Kalaitzi, LIBER, SSHOC
Venkat Shanmugasundaram, DCC
Vicky Garnett, DARIAH
Vid Svaksha, VIB