Educational & Training Activities of BBMRI-ERIC

BBMRI-ERIC Core Activities Common Service on Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
Already organizing educational activities
Currently mostly using webinars & web-based systems
Common Service IT
User support, training, and dissemination is integral part of each service
Users are both RI operators and researchers accessing the RI
Directory, Sample Broker, Sample Locator, Reference tools for biobanks and national nodes, … 22/05/2015 4 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

Hands-On Biobanks http://handsonbiobanks.org/
Yearly conference format accompanied by hands-on training, tutorials & masterclasses
Targeted at both RI providers and users 22/05/2015 5 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

BBMRI-ERIC Core Activities Other activities
Internal training for management of BBMRI-ERIC and national nodes 22/05/2015 6 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

RItrain RItrain will develop a flagship training programme enabling RIs across all domains to gain expertise on governance, organisation, financial and staff management, funding, IP, service provision and outreach in an international context. Key manager and leader of RI will be trained via this project. For operators a similar approach is foreseen within the CORBEL project. 22/05/2015 7 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

RItrain Mission We will define competencies required by RIs through consultation with their senior managers. The resulting competency framework will underpin a Bologna-compliant degree, the Master in Research Infrastructure Management, with three delivery routes.
Professionals working in RIs (or organisations representing them) can dip into the content, focusing on areas where there is most need.
Management teams can take the course as an organisation, dividing modules between them to gain a certificate for the RI. This will flag the RI as an organisation that values staff development, improving its attractiveness as an employer.
Recent graduates and others wishing to enhance their employability can take a full master’s degree. 22/05/2015 8 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

RItrain Major Objectives Definition of required competencies in distributed RIs throughout the lifecycle of an RI, from the initial preparatory phase through to operational maturity.
Mapping of these competency requirements to existing training courses and programmes.
Development and piloting of a comprehensive curriculum, at master’s level, incorporating existing training opportunities and creating new content to fill the gaps.
Development of continuing professional development, including a series of webinars based on how real challenges in research infrastructures have been overcome, and a staff-exchange programme. 22/05/2015 9 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

RItrain Impact RItrain will professionalise the training of both current and future managers of RIs. To ensure that the training delivered is successful, i.e. improves the capacities of RI management teams and thus the RIs, RItrain will rely on four activities:
The basis of successful training lies in the definition of required competencies.
The competency profiles will be mapped to existing training courses and programmes.
Our curriculum design process incorporates several measures to maximise the impact of the training that we develop.
The training delivery will contribute to the impact not only by building the desired competencies in our trainees, but also by creating a network of RI managers with a shared language and a better understanding of areas in which specific RIs excel. 22/05/2015 10 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

RItrain Consortium M.Pasterk, BBMRI-ERIC, Graz, AT;
C. Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK;
C. Janko, Med Uni Vienna, AT;
M. Räss, Infrafrontier, Munich, DE;
R. Ludwig, EATRIS-ERIC, Amsterdam, NL;
J. Demotes, ECRIN-ERIC, Paris, FR;
A. Antunes, MIRRI, Braga, PL;
P. Hozak, IMG, Prague, CZ;
B. Skene, ISBE, London, UK;
M. Lavitrano, Uni Milano-Bicocca, IT;
S. David, DARIAH-ERIC, FR;
A. Oepen, SHARE-ERIC, Munich, DE 22/05/2015 11 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

CORBEL Brings together 11 biological and medical research infrastructures (BMS RI)
BBMRI, EATRIS, ECRIN, ELIXIR, Infrafrontier, Instruct, EU-OPENSCREEN, EMBRC, Euro-BioImaging, ISBE, MIRRI
Goals:
Forge effective partnerships with user communities.
Develop unique solutions to user needs.
Implement a portfolio of generic, shared services. 22/05/2015 12 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

CORBEL WP1: Project management and coordination
WP2: Documentation, communication and outreach
WP3: Community-driven cross-infrastructure joint research–Medical
WP4: Community-driven cross-infrastructure joint research–Bioscience
WP5: Enabling common solutions for user access
WP6: Data access, management and integration
WP7: Common services to provide support with Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues
WP8: Accelerating innovation
WP9: Training 22/05/2015 13 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

CORBEL – WP9 Coordinated by BBMRI-ERIC (Markus Paster – WP9 leader)
Focused primarily on RI operators in BMS RI hubs and nodes
Four cluster areas: data management & integration, physical access, ethics, and innovation.
Define the competency requirements
Develop and deliver courses
Provide staff-exchange programs 22/05/2015 14 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

CORBEL – WP9 Development of modular training curriculum
Based on short courses
Close coordination with IMI EMTRAIN on-course® resource
Reuse/incorpopration where applicable
>6.000 postgraduate courses throughout Europe
www.lifetrain.eu
Partners: all the BMS RIs 22/05/2015 15 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

Technical Means Strong focus on webinars is assumed as of now
Community has positive experiences with them already.





Possibly augmented with online courses. 22/05/2015 16 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

Technical Means OSC may be used as a complement for courses targeted on computation/storage heavy segments of research related to BBMRI-ERIC
Omics data analysis as developed in BiobankCloud project
Deployment of private clouds for both researchers and biobankers (RI operators)
Expected to be used more extensively in CORBEL curricula 22/05/2015 17 ©BBMRI-ERIC<br>

22/05/2015 18 ©BBMRI-ERIC Thank you for your attention!

Petr.Holub@bbmri-eric.eu
http://www.bbmri-eric.eu/<br>