Hi All, Fiona Murphy is running a workshop on digital skills curriculum planning at the EGU conference in Vienna on 28th April.
If there are any members of the Software Carpentry / Data Carpentry community attending EGU who are interested in and able to participating in the workshop, Fiona would be keen to get your perspectives - drop her an email directly at [email protected] Best regards, Neil ---------------- The Belmont Forum is a group of the world's major and emerging funders of global environmental change research committed to enabling and supporting international, cross-disciplinary research in response to the ‘Belmont Challenge’ (a range of high-priority international environmental and societal challenges). Critical conditions for fulfilling this remit are to provide (1) a functional research e-infrastructure (2) coherent principles and data policies and (3) ensure that researchers are sufficiently equipped with the necessary digital research and data management skills to leverage these facilities. Vicky Lucas (of the Institute of Environmental Analytics, University of Reading) and I are part of the team working on item 3. Having conducted a skills gap analysis and compiled a preliminary report, we are planning to hold a curriculum-planning workshop on Friday 28th April (adjacent to the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna) to which you are cordially invited. In the course of the workshop we aim to bring together a range of global environmental change and earth science research specialists in order to test the results of the gap analysis and establish the foundations for digital skills training requirements (‘digital skills’ includes, but is not limited to, research data management skills, data deposition and sharing, software/programming/modeling capabil) across the breadth of Belmont Forum-relevant disciplines. The content and conclusions of the workshop will therefore form a critical part of the recommendations that will ultimately be made to the Steering Committee and Partner Organisations for taking further action. As spaces are limited, we would be grateful if you could confirm whether you are able to attend (by email to me at [email protected]) at your earliest convenience. Do note, if you are personally unable to attend, we would be delighted if you could recommend a colleague or advanced student from your discipline who would be able to participate in your stead. A more detailed agenda will be circulated prior to the event. When: Workshop 9.00-17.00 followed by dinner on Friday 28 April (all meals and refreshments will be provided by the hosts) Where: http://www.marriott.co.uk/hotels/travel/viefg-courtyard-vienna-prater-messe/ We look forward to seeing you in Vienna! With kind regards, Fiona Murphy, on behalf of the Belmont Forum Action Theme 4 Project Team Fiona Murphy, DPhil Associate Fellow, Institute for Environmental Analytics University of Reading -- Neil Chue Hong Director, Software Sustainability Institute EPCC, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5957 http://www.software.ac.uk/ LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilchuehong Twitter: http://twitter.com/npch ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-7606 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
