Sci-GaIA Winter School to train on applications integrated in Science Gateways: March 1-31, 2016

On March 2016, the Sci-GaIA project will organize and run an entirely web-based Winter School. The goal of the Sci-GaIA Winter School is to create the skills to integrate scientific applications in the Africa Grid Science Gateway and/or in other domain-specific Science Gateways. This will allow the creation of an intercontinental pool of experts that can act as “interface” between the end-users of the Communities of Practice (CoPs) supported by the project and the e-Infrastructure services.

The school will be entirely web-based and it will include a combination of i) pre-recorded lectures and ii) interactive sessions per week in order to check the progress of students through their short presentations and the correction of the exercises. Both the inaugural lecture and the final day’s presentations will also be held as interactive webinars.

The school will follow a project-driven education approach with teams of students working on the development of scientific applications to be integrated in the Science Gateway(s).

At the end of the school, a panel of experts will assess the progress made by the various teams of students and the winner and the runner-up application teams (max. 2 persons per team) will win a free participation to the Sci-GaIA Final Conference that will be held in Brussels in March/April 2017.

APPLICATIONS AND DEADLINES

Applications can be submitted exclusively through the web by filling a questionnaire where the applicant(s) – up to 4 persons per team – has/have to upload his/their CV(s) and presentation letter(s) and describe the scientific application proposed for the school.
• The deadline for the submission of applications is the 22nd of January 2016.
• Accepted applicants will be notified, with a direct email, by the 15th of February 2016.
• The detailed program of the school, including all pre-recorded lectures, training materials and descriptions of the scientific applications will be available online by the 22nd of February 2016.

The application form is available online at: http://bit.ly/1Q0Tza9
For inquiries, please contact : [e-mail]

USEFUL LINKS

Winter school webpage : http://bit.ly/1N5Ho6S
Sci-GaIA website : http://www.sci-gaia.eu/

SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS

Twitter: @ei4africa
Hashtag: #SciGaIA
LinkedIn: e-Infrastructures for Africa Community Group (http://bit.ly/1IcOrPh)

Pays

Burkina Faso, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Mali, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, South Africa