Submit your session proposals for CarpentryConnect and BioNT Community Event - Heidelberg 2024! The CarpentryConnect and BioNT community event - Heidelberg 2024 is expected to be the key community-building and networking event for The Carpentries and BioNT’s community in Europe, with worldwide participation. Taking place 12 - 14 November 2024 at EMBL Heidelberg, this event will provide the opportunity to bring together newer and more experienced community members to share knowledge, network, develop new skills, and develop strategies for training beyond academia and building strong local and regional training communities.

Announcing a community event in EMBL Heidelberg, 12-14 November 2024. Join us for CarpentryConnect Heidelberg 2024 at EMBL! More information at: carpentries.org/blog/2024/01/announcing-cchd24 Bio-IT welcomes you to a community event, that we are co-organising with the project BioNT and The Carpentries. We will talk about and act on how to connect people through training across sectors (Academia and Industry, as well as job seekers), how to enhance the impact of training activities, and how to increase diversity within our training communities.

The Bio-IT website includes courses announcements not only from Bio-IT, but from various EMBL entities including the EMBL centers and ALMF. Would you also like to know how to announce a course and manage the related registrations and communication through our website? Here’s a short overview for you! Upcoming courses in the Bio-IT website The page available at bio-it.embl.de/upcoming-courses includes two lists. The Upcoming courses on top shows courses planned with a date and time, while you can consider the Training plan on the bottom our wishlist of courses we are planning or would like to organise in the future.

We want you(r training requests)! New year, new resolutions. It has always been central in the Bio-IT’s mission to plan and deliver a curriculum of training courses designed on the needs and wishes of the (biocomputational) community at EMBL. From this year, we have a tool to collect them in a systematic way: the Bio-IT training catalogue. The platform was initiated, and developed to an advanced state, from Bio-IT’s summer intern Emily Simons, who joined us through the DAAD RISE project.

Visit the official BioNT website: biont-training.eu Short term training courses, DIGITAL Europe The DIGITAL Europe Programme call DIGITAL-2022-TRAINING-02-SHORT-COURSES aims at increasing the training offer in digital skills of people in the workforce and job-seekers, through free and open short-term courses. Bio-IT, leading a consortium of 9 institutions in 4 countries, applied to the call with a project for the computational training of people in the Life Sciences sector. The project got funded and will start its activities in early 2023.

The Carpentries workbench The Carpentries teach foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. The Carpentries is a community of people that gathers together with the aim to make technical skills training effective, accessible and scalable. Most of the training happens in the form of short and very hands-on training courses, collaboratively designed (and openly shared) in the community, and delivered by certified The Carpentries instructors (ream more on how to become a certified instructor) and multiple helpers, to ensure that all trainees are properly followed.

Dear Bio-IT community, Before the end of the year, we would like to take the time to thank you all for your support, participation and contributions. We thankfully recognise that Bio-IT - a project spontaneously born within the EMBL Heidelberg community - still preserves its essence and aim. It is and always has been a community initiative, a way to join forces and share knowledge and ideas, reach common objectives, support each other.

Recently, Bio-IT took some steps towards the standardisation of its activities description. In the context of the Data Sciences strategy at EMBL and in particular in WorkStream 1 - “Internal and external training & support”, we collected a glossary of competencies that we are going to use for different purposes. Bio-IT competencies This glossary includes two types of terms: the skills, representing expertise, abilities to use tools, and the topics, matters of knowledge.

The EMBL Python User Group (EPUG) is a collective of python programmers at EMBL who meet regularly (every other Tuesday at 4 PM) to discuss python-related topics, demonstrate tools and modules, and experiment with python-related software and hardware. After the summer break, we reached out to the community to discuss EPUG format, addressed level of expertise, ideas for improvements and answer potential newcomers questions. This post includes a summary of what happened.

✈️ Hello, this is your community manager speaking. Bio-IT community manager, but - since recently - also Zenodo community manager. What does this mean? Here explained. FAIR, sustainable and (eventually) open science FAIR stands for Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. It refers to a list of 15 principles published in The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship in 2016, aimed at “improving the infrastructure supporting the reuse of scholarly data”.

What? Well, a shared calendar 📆. Who? From Bio-IT, for you EMBLites 💚. When? All year long, update in real-time ⌚. Where? Online 💻 or on site 🏢, wherever something is happening. Why? Here’s why: The Bio-IT calendar The Bio-IT calendar lists courses, events, and activities open to all EMBL members. You can simply consult it there or add it to your EMBL calendar. This is a friendly calendar of things you may want to do - not of things you have to do, of opportunities to interact with EMBL researchers and learn new skills.

“CommunityRule is a governance toolkit for great communities”. The website homepage provides this definition, and then challenges you with two questions: How does your community work? Are you ready to make hard decisions? Defining our governance structure The purpose of the CommunityRule project is to make you think about how your community is organised, who is in charge of making decisions and who can influence this decisions. The project is still work in progress, but a wide range of definitions and tags is already available - even if not all of them are thoroughly described - to define your community governance structure.