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 in research domains and e-infrastructures. Together, the CoP aims to map out training activities of various pan-European, such as EOSC-related initiatives (and more recently initiatives beyond the European sphere), 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. The EUDAT team, along with OpenAIRE, proposed to continue collaboration, independent of projects, in a bottom-up initiative for the CoP. The idea was welcomed at the education and training group of the RDA and OpenAIRE has taken up coordination activities.

Activities in 2023

Through OpenAIRE's strong representation in the EOSC Future project, where OpenAIRE also leads training and skills, a decision was made to engage the CoP and establish two new task forces (TFs) that can benefit from the expertise available through the CoP. These two TFs and their mission statements are:

EOSC training: “to formulate a joint vision and a roadmap for training activities for EOSC and ensure it develops and operates a cross-discipline, cross-infrastructures network of training experts and aligned training activities; to develop good practices for training in EOSC, harmonising learning outcomes, identifying KPIs and measuring the impact of EOSC-related training; and EOSC train-the-trainer activities.” This TF is now running, and meeting monthly, providing a forum in which individuals interested in or doing EOSC-related training can come together. If you would like to learn more or get involved please contact us!
Quality assurance of training resources: “to co-create a checklist for quality assurance of training materials, such as materials review policies, prerequisites, continuous improvement based on feedback, responsibilities, etc. This TF has now published an output which is being used within the EOSC Future project but is also of value to the open science community as a whole.

Besides these, there are a number of other activities being considered while the group also has monthly meetings in which different members present work that they are involved in. Please see below for details on when we meet and also how to join our community!

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 in 2023 (at 1400 CET):

13 June
11 July
8 August
12 Sept
10 October
14 November
12 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 CoP in September 2018, training coordinators from several projects, including those contributing to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), e.g. EOSCpilot, EOSC-hub, and those involved in other European projects have participated. Membership has grown to include a very diverse group from diverse backgrounds and includes some members from outside Europe too The CoP is for training coordinators in communities, projects and research infrastructures and in the list below the current members are listed with their affiliation, project or research infrastructure. If you would like to learn more or are interested in joining, please get in touch! Membership is free and activities are community driven.

How to become a member

Send an email to Helen Clare (helen.clare [at] jisc.ac.uk) or S. Venkataraman (s.venkataraman [at] openaire.eu)

Current members

Helen Clare (co-chair), JISC, EOSC Synergy, EOSC Future
Shanmugasundaram Venkataraman (Venkat; co-chair), OpenAIRE, EOSC Future, PATTERN, CODATA-RDA schools
Adam Partridge, ELIXIR-UK, University of Sheffield
Alen Vodopijevec, IRB, OpenAIRE
Alexia de Casanove, CINES
Alicia Gomez Sanchez, TU Wien Bibliothek
Angus Whyte, DCC, FAIRsFAIR
Antónia Correia, University of Minho, RDA-PT, ON-MERRIT
Antonina Chaban, National Institute of Optics - Italian National Research Council (INO-CNR)
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, American Geophysical Union
Claudia Alen Amaro, Instruct-ERIC
Cosimo Vallo, LifeWatch, EOSC Future
Cristina M Ribeiro Do Canto Lagid, Aarhus University, PATTERN
Daniel Bangert, Digital Repository of Ireland
Daniel Thomas Lopez, EBI, EOSC Life, EOSC Future
Daniela Hausen, RWTH Aachen University and NFDI4Chem
Deborah Thorpe, Digital Repository of Ireland
Deborah Wiltshire, Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, GESIS
Džalila Muharemagić, University of Bihać
Dominique L. Green, Digital Curation Centre
Eleonora Parisi, LifeWatch, EOSC Future
Elisha Teo, Aalborg University Copenhagen, INOS Project
Ellen Leenarts, DANS, OpenAIRE, FAIRsFAIR, SSHOC
Elli Papadopoulou, Athena Research & Innovation Center, OpenAIRE, RDA
Emilie Hermans, EOSC-Pillar, EOSC Future, Digital Archiving - Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent
Emma Lazzeri, CNR-ISTI, OpenAIRE, RDA, Skill4EOSC
Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, DARIAH
Etienne B. Roesch, University of Reading
Eva Hnatkova, National Library of Technology
Evangelia Triantafyllou, Aalborg University Copenhagen, INOS
Evgeny Bobrov, Berlin Institute of Health, QUEST, Center for Transforming Biomedical Research
Fieke Schoots, Health-RI
Flavio Azevedo, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, FORRT
Fotis E. Psomopoulos, INAB - Institute of Applied Biosciences, CERTH - Center for Research and Technology Hellas
Frances Madden, British Library, FREYA
Francesca Di Donato, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC) - CNR, TRIPLE Project
Geneviève Morin, Douglas Research Centre - Montreal
Gergely Sipos, EGI, EOSC Future,
Gina Pavone, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "A. Faedo" - CNR
Gitte Kragh, Aarhus University and TIME4CS project
Giuseppe La Rocca, EGI, EOSC Future
Gultekin Gurdal, Izmir Institute of Technology, OpenAIRE
Helene Brinken, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
Hermann Schranzhofer, TU Graz
Hugh Shanahan, Royal Holloway, CODATA-RDA schools
Ilaria Fava, Goettingen University, OpenAIRE
Inge Van Nieuwerburgh, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, OpenAIRE & EOSC-PILLAR
Irena Vipavc Brvar, UL, CESSDA, SSHOC, EOSC Future
Iryna Kuchma, EIFL, OpenAIRE, FOSTER, EOSC Future
Isabel Bacellar, Douglas Research Centre - Montreal
Janice Ansine, Citizen Science at the Open University, Cos4Cloud project
Jeannette Ekstrøm, DTU
Jessica Lindvall, NBIS/ELIXIR-SE
Jiří Marek, Masaryk University
Jitka Dobbersteinova, The Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information
Jitka Stilund Hansen, DTU Library, Technical University of Denmark
Johannes Blumenberg, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Johanna Havemann, Access 2 Perspectives, AfricArXiv
Jonathan England, OpenAIRE
Karsten Kryger Hansen, Aalborg University Library
Katerina Zourou, Web2Learn, INOS (Integrating open and citizen science into active learning approaches in higher education) project
Katherine Flynn, ISEKI Food Association and FoodCloud
Kathryn Unsworth, ARDC
Kerry Miller, The University of Edinburgh
Kerstin Helbig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Kevin Ashley, DCC
Kristina Korshunova, Eindhoven University of Technology
Kristýna Zychová, LIB Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Krzys Poterlowicz, ELIXIR-UK, University of Bradford
Laura Molloy, CODATA
Linas Čepinskas, DANS, FAIRsFAIR and EOSC Synergy
Linda Martin, Bielefeld University
Lisa Hirsch, AUSSDA, Vienna University Library
Lisana Berberi, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Liz Stokes, ARDC
Loredana Le Pera, ELIXIR-IIB, CNR-IBIOM and CNR-IBPM, c/o Sapienza University of Rome
Lottie Provost, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Louise Bezuidenhout, DANS, EOSC Future, CODATA-RDA schools
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
Maria Teresa Manca, LifeWatch ERIC, EOSC Future
Marie Czuray, AUSSDA - The Austrian Social Science Data Archive
Mathilde Panes, EPFL Library
Matt Mahon, University of Glasgow
Michal Růžička, Masaryk University
Mijke Jetten, Radboud University
Milica Ševkušić, EIFL, Institute of Technical Sciences of Serbian Academy of Sciences
Monica Forni, Università di Bologna, RItrainPlus
Natalie Haley, Instruct-ERIC
Natasha Simons, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
Neil Jacobs, UKRN, University of Bristol
Nicola Fiore, LifeWatch ERIC, ENVRI FAIR
Pascal Flohr, DANS, EOSC Future
Paula Moura, Minho University, OpenAIRE Nexus and EOSC Future
Paula Oset Garcia, Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent & EOSC-PILLAR
Päivi Rauste, CSC – Tieteen tietotekniikan keskus Oy, CSC – IT Center for Science
Pedro L. Fernandes, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Pedro Principe, University of Minho, OpenAIRE, EOSC Future
Renato Alves, EMBL Bio-IT Project, HD-HuB (de.NBI, ELIXIR-DE), EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
René van Horik, DANS, CESSDA-trust
Sanja Drakulic, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
Sarah Hughes, GEANT
Silvia Wissel, ZBW
Sonja Filiposka, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University - Skopje, NI4OS project
Stamoulia Agapi Polyzou, Library & Information Service of the University of Thessaly
Stefanie Strebel, Universität Zürich
Tatsiana Yankelevich, LIBER
Tereza Kalová, Universität Wien Bibliotheks-und Archivwesen
Valerie Brasse, euroCRIS - The International Organisation for Research Information
Vasso Kalaitzi, DANS
Vera Matser, EBI
Veronika Keck, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Vicky Garnett, DARIAH
Vid Svaksha, VIB

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