Education and Training Task Force

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Education and Training Task Force

• Strategies and Policies

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Austrian Presidency

• Mandate
• Education and Training in the use of
  e-Infrastructure are necessary to realise its
  potential. They will benefit from shared
  practice, coordination and compatible policies,
  and access to shared education and training
  material and support systems.
• Recommendations
• Investment in education and training should be
  made so that the full potential of
  e-Infrastructures may be realised for EU citizens
  
• Significant investment in education should be
  directed towards improving understanding as to
  how e-Infrastructure may be exploited effectively
• Investment in training and education should be
  directed improving the ERAs capacity to develop,
  deploy and manage e-Infrastructure and the
  applications that use e-Infrastructure
• Policies and standards for the coordination,
  collaborative support, interchange and mutual
  recognition of e-Infrastructure should be
  developed across the ERA

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Education and Training

• Training
• Targeted
• Immediate goals
• Specific skills
• Building a workforce
• Education
• Pervasive
• Long term and sustained
• Generic conceptual models
• Developing a culture
• Both are needed

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European Policy Context

• Lisbon Strategy (Growth and Jobs)
• Pertaining policies
• Education and Training 2010
• i2010
• European Research Area (Green Paper and Lisbon
  Conference)

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Computational Thinking

• Movements towards
• computational thinking
• Jeannette Wing
• Communications of the ACM,
• March 2006, Vol 49, No. 3, p33-35
• National level
• State of computational thinking
• education in the Member States
• ? Your feedback

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Knowledge Triangle
RESEARCH
INNOVATION
EDUCATION
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Options for educators

• Existing educational machinery
• Curricula, courses etc.
• Infrastructure, grid services etc.
• Impediments to mobilising this machinery
• Not a comprehensive repository of courses
• (e.g. ICEAGE www.iceage-eu.org )
• Resource sharing
• Development of NGIs
• Your feedback

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Options for educators Trade-offs

• Harmonisation
• Skills transfer
• Mobility
• Credit transfer
• Integration
• Economies
• Curriculum development

• Organic process
• Diversity
• Cross fertilisation
• Meeting national or discipline requirements
  faster
• Response to rapidly changing domain

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Other options

• Options not covered your feedback

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Scope for e-IRG

• What is e-IRGs focus in education?
• Your feedback

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Strategies and Policies

• Curriculum development
• Certification
• Sharing resources
• Relationships

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Strategy - Curriculum development

• Build on discipline-specific computational
  thinking
• Interdisciplinary applications of grids
• Data-intensive and numerical computing
• Collaborative working
• Extended computational thinking
• ? equip people for the evolving context
• Grids in Computer Science education
• Scalable distributed computing
• Security and reliability
• Distributed algorithms
• Your feedback

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Strategy - Certification

• Build on current harmonisation and cooperation
• Embrace the Bologna Process
• Professional accreditation by accreditation
  bodies
• Mutual recognition
• Merge HTC HPC and grid for application domains

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Strategy Resource Sharing

• Educational material
• Books, notes, exercises, example data? reducing
  the costs of developing material
• t-Infrastructure
• Shared provision
• Student and staff mobility
• Conditions of use
• Security and Certification
• IPR
• Pertains to resource sharing ? Creative Commons
  vs. commercial opportunity?
• Global vision
• Europe should not be doing this alone ? global
  cooperation (e.g. OGF)

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Strategy - Relationships

• NGIs EGI
• HPC (PRACE)
• EIT
• Multinational facilities
• ESFRI Roadmap
• Your feedback

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Summary

• Education and Training crucial to European
  success
• Tasks
• Clarify status of Grid Education in Member States
• Develop a policy framework for grid education
• Develop a policy framework for grid training
• Delimit e-IRG role

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Thank you for your contribution

• Are there any volunteers and suggestions?