coordinating european training and elixir uk by rita hendricusdottir

European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information www.elixir-‐europe.org

Coordinating training in the UK, Europe and beyond

UK Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information www.elixir-‐uk.org

Rita Hendricusdottir Training Outreach Manager – ELIXIR UK

Chair: Training Coordinator Group [email protected]

Europe: To build a sustainable European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation to

medicine, agriculture, bioindustries and society.

Objectives of ELIXIR

UK: To facilitate training of research scientists and infrastructure technologists in bioinformatics, computing, statistics and biology, in

partnership with UK centres, industry and other ELIXIR Nodes.

ELIXIR UK actions

Establish an ELIXIR-‐wide training community that coherently delivers ELIXIR-‐related training

Organisation structure ELIXIR: TeCG and TrCG

Technical Coordinator Group (TeCG)

Training Coordinator Group (TrCG)

Industry

Training Coordination Group (TrCG) Mission: To establish an interactive ELIXIR wide training community across all member states that coherently delivers ELIXIR-‐related training. TrCG members: Chair: Rita Hendricusdottir BE Katrijn Vannerum CZ Daniel Svozil DK Peter Longreen EE Hedi Peterson FI Eija Korpelainen FR Julie Thompson IL Michal Linial IT Allegra Via NL Celia van Gelder NO Ståle Nygård PT Pedro Fernandes SI Brane L. Leskosek & Peter Juvan ES Oswaldo Trelles SE Sara Light CH Patricia Palagi UK Rita Hendricusdottir & Lee Larcombe EMBL-‐EBI Sarah Morgan

First teleconference meeting was 29th Sept 2014

ELIXIR Excelerate (INFRADEV-‐3) The overall aim of ELIXIR-‐Excelerate is to ensure that Europe’s life scientists have access to world leading resources for bioinformatics. This will be done by accelerating the integration of Europe’s core bioinformatics resources, services and national centers into a single, distributed, infrastructure: ELIXIR. •  Training delivery & development •  Training Portal •  E-‐learning

Training Coordination Group– First action

Programme of Work 5 – Training Nine ELIXIR Training objectives 2014-‐2018 1.  Link to individuals from all other ELIXIR programmes to ensure pan-‐ELIXIR coherency in the delivery

of training related to ELIXIR infrastructures 2.  Establish a common approach across ELIXIR to benchmark and evaluate diverse training activities 3.  Establish a coherent and interacting ELIXIR-‐wide training community 4.  Disseminate relevant information via a training portal 5.  Identify training gaps and priorities by engaging with industry and other stakeholders 6.  Expand high quality training activities, and develop and deliver new training activities, in order to fill

identified gaps and meet priorities 7.  Synchronise the development of ELIXIR data infrastructures with associated high quality training

materials and activities 8.  Define core competencies of users and operators of ELIXIR infrastructure and map these

competencies to training activities 9.  Capture and deliver ELIXIR training activities in Open Education Resources (OER) including videos

and interactive training materials

INFRADEV-‐3 : ELIXIR Excelerate

Training delivery & development (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8) •  Establish an ELIXIR-‐wide training community (UK, NL, Hub) •  Identify training gaps and developing high quality training activities (UK, EBI) •  Training in high performance computing in biology (ES, ?) •  Train the trainers at universities and in industry (IT, ?) •  Technical training for ELIXIR developers (EE, ?) •  Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry roll out (UK, ?) Training Portal (4) •  TeSS development/deployment to production (UK, ?) E-‐learning (7, 9) •  Using virtual machines and clouds in bioinformatics training (FR, ?) •  Harnessing artificial intelligence techniques to improve bioinformatics training and

eLearning (IL, ?) •  ELIXIR eLearning platform use-‐case (SI, ?) •  E-‐learning materials for first-‐round ELIXIR resources (SI, ?)



1. Excellence in Coordination, Operations and Governance

2. Strengthening Node Capacity

3. Excellence in User Services

Training-‐related Ac/vi/es

ELIXIR Hub Training Coordinator

E-‐learning from ELIXIR documenta/on

Training delivery & development (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8) •  Establish an ELIXIR-‐wide training community (UK, NL, Hub) •  Identify training gaps and developing high quality training activities (UK, EBI) •  Training in high performance computing in biology (ES, ?) •  Train the trainers at universities and in industry (IT, ?) •  Technical training for ELIXIR developers (EE, ?) •  Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry roll out (UK, ?) Training Portal (4) •  TeSS development/deployment to production (UK, ?) E-‐learning (7, 9) •  Using virtual machines and clouds in bioinformatics training (FR, ?) •  Harnessing artificial intelligence techniques to improve bioinformatics training and

eLearning (IL, ?) •  ELIXIR eLearning platform use-‐case (SI, ?) •  E-‐learning materials for first-‐round ELIXIR resources (SI, ?)


3. Excellence in User Services

1. Excellence in Coordination, Operations and Governance

2. Strengthening Node Capacity

Training within ELIXIR

Existing training activities? What kinds of training?

Countries with strong training structure

NL

CH

UK

CZ

DK

EE

FI

IT

IL

NO SE

EBI

FR

PT

SI

ES

BE

Existing training activities?

Training offer throughout ELIXIR (17 nodes) What kinds of training?

Training Coordinator Group – Preliminary Objectives

•  Develop a strong training community within ELIXIR. •  Drive training partnerships with external partners. •  Encourage collaborations among nodes/countries which will increase the quality and

quantity of training.

•  Increase training accessibility throughout Europe.

•  Coordinate training for ELIXIR infrastructures and techniques. •  Support the training community via train the trainer events. •  Set high standards for the delivery of training and establish metrics for success.

How can TrCG facilitate training in UK/Europe? Form a strong training community within ELIXIR

Encourage collaboration within

UK and Europe

Funding opportunities Promote UK training in Europe

Enhance quality of training

Partnership with training professionals

Enhance impact of training

How is TrCG going to facilitate training?

Form strong training community within ELIXIR and drive partnerships. UK/International Partnerships:

CGAT Software Carpentry Data Carpentry Software Sustainability Institute EOS TGAC GOBLET

Coordinate the development of training Training/workshops: Related to ELIXIR infrastructure Train the trainers: Universities and Industry E-‐learning: improve E-‐learning training

Increase the accessibility for training throughout UK and Europe. TeSS: ELIXIR training portal

Training Coordinator Group – future agenda

11 Nov 2014: First TrCG Face to Face meeting in Amsterdam Agenda: •  TrCG objectives •  INFRADEV-‐3 •  Stimulate collaboration beyond INFRADEV-‐3

29 Apr 2015: Meeting with ELIXIR-‐CH (Patricia Palagi)

Summary

Establish an ELIXIR-‐wide training community Training Coordinator Group First action: INFRADEV-‐3 TrCG Objectives: Training

Collaboration Coordination Development

European Life Sciences Infrastructure for Biological Information www.elixir-‐europe.org

Thank you

UK Life Science Infrastructure for Biological Information www.elixir-‐uk.org