Framework

EDISON hosted a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday 9 Feb to explore the opportunities for collaboration and coordination of training and education activities amongst the various projects that fall under the area of e-Infrastructures across Eurorpe. Whilst we didn't manage to get everybody in the room for the event, we did have a good spread of interests covered. This led to some very rewarding and interesting discussions and ideas. A full report will be available soon as we pull together the notes and actions, as well as the slides from contributors including those that weren't used.

Data Infrastructure Competences and Skills Framework: a European and Global Challenge

This by invitation workshop is being organized by the EDISON initiative.

Location: European Commission building, Avenue de Beaulieu 33, 1160 Brussels, room BU33 0/54, Brussels (note that attendees will have to have supplied security information in advance of the meeting.)

Attendees: 40 (maximum) 

Date: 9th February, 2016 

Time: 10:00-17:00

The workshop will allow EDISON to take stock of the main initiatives and projects in the digital infrastructure ecosystem and map their contributions to the definition of an ambitious European framework for developing skills and competences. 

More concretely the workshop will:

1. Raise awareness of the importance and value of the Data Scientist profession especially in the context of European research data infrastructure
2. Involve multiple stakeholders (including projects) in discussions about the competences and skills required for Data Infrastructures taking the proposed EDISON Data Science Competence Framework as a starting point. 
3. Establish a coordination framework between data infrastructures and related projects, as well as key industry partners with respect to the Data Scientist profession.