New project: Building digital skills training and lesson development capacity in the Netherlands NES domain 

We are hap­py to announce the launch of a new TDCC-NES fund­ed project led by 4TU.ResearchData: Build­ing dig­i­tal skills train­ing and les­son devel­op­ment capac­i­ty in the Nether­lands NES domain (Dig­i­tal Capac­i­ty for NES).

Call 1: Instruc­tor Train­ing — NOW OPEN
Call for Col­lab­o­ra­tive Les­son Devel­op­ment Train­ing — NOW OPEN

The project will run for two years and aims at increas­ing the soft­ware and dig­i­tal teach­ing capac­i­ty in the nat­ur­al and engi­neer­ing sci­ences (NES) in the Nether­lands. The project will build this capac­i­ty through the Car­pen­tries train­ing pro­grammes, a renowned inter­na­tion­al organ­i­sa­tion and com­mu­ni­ty that teach­es foun­da­tion­al cod­ing and dig­i­tal skills to researchers world­wide. This project is a col­lab­o­ra­tion between 4TU.ResearchData, TU Delft, eScience Cen­ter, Tilburg Uni­ver­si­ty and the Car­pen­tries Coor­di­na­tors Net­work NL. 

The first aim of the project is to train 50 new Car­pen­tries instruc­tors. Sec­ond­ly, the project offers three teams the oppor­tu­ni­ty to join the Car­pen­tries Col­lab­o­ra­tive Les­son Devel­op­ment train­ing to design new reusable NES lessons.The new instruc­tors and the les­son devel­op­ment teams will be con­nect­ed with oth­er research per­form­ing organ­i­sa­tions to form region­al Train­ing Hubs to col­lab­o­ra­tive­ly pro­vide train­ing to NES researchers. To stim­u­late this, the project will pro­vide guid­ance and finan­cial sup­port to run the first four Car­pen­tries work­shops in these new Local Train­ing Hubs.

The project is built around four work pack­ages: 

• WP1: Project coor­di­na­tion and liai­son with rel­e­vant net­works
• WP2: Devel­op­ment of eli­gi­bil­i­ty cri­te­ria and selec­tion process­es
• WP3: Organ­is­ing train­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties
• WP4: Kick­start­ing car­pen­tries work­shops

Call 1: Instruc­tor Train­ing — NOW OPEN
Call for Col­lab­o­ra­tive Les­son Devel­op­ment Train­ing- NOW OPEN

Iri­na Motoc, Project Coor­di­na­tor, says: “I am delight­ed to coor­di­nate this project which brings much need­ed dig­i­tal capac­i­ty to the NES domain across Dutch uni­ver­si­ties and uni­ver­si­ties of applied sci­ences.”

Paula Mar­tinez Lavanchy, WP4 co-lead: “Researchers increas­ing­ly need train­ing on pro­gram­ming, research soft­ware and dig­i­tal skills. We hope that this project can facil­i­tate that research insti­tu­tions are well-pre­pared and join forces to pro­vide the train­ing in a more sus­tain­able man­ner.”