In addition to research training in their host institution, the Fellows have received wider network-based training. This instruction has included scientific schools and topical workshops which provide them with skills and knowledge in wider research, as well as career development.
The OMA Complementary Skills School was organized in April 2017 to allow first Fellows from the AVA (Accelerators Validating Antimatter Physics) ITN to join, providing an opportunity for the Fellows of two major European Training Initiatives to establish close links and discuss possible collaboration. The first OMA School on Medical Accelerators was organized in June 2017 at CNAO, allowing networking with the Medicis-Promed ITN, overlapping in some parts of the programme such as the poster session, and thus stimulating discussions between the two networks. The OMA School on Monte Carlo Simulations was organized at LMU Munich in November 2017, and was attended by all OMA Fellows as well as Fellows from the LIV.DAT doctoral training centre on Big Data Science. Finally, the Advanced Researcher Skills and Technology Transfer Workshop in June 2019 was organized jointly with the AVA network, bringing together 30 Marie Curie Fellows. Through this approach the OMA Fellows gained significant interdisciplinary and cross-sector exposure and an exceptional opportunity to build close connections with a very wide scientific community. In addition, more ESRs benefitted from the OMA training programme by getting the opportunity to join our schools.
The connections initiated through the joint training events also laid the foundation for a number of outreach and communication activities with global reach. The OMA website provides information about all network partners, Fellows and projects, and is regularly updated with project news. The OMA Express newsletter is distributed every three months to update the network on the progress of the project. A project leaflet has also been printed and a glossy A4 brochure has been produced, showcasing each of the Fellows, their research projects and the partners involved in the network, thus acting as an application dossier for the ESRs. This promotional material has been used to raise the profile of the project by distribution at conferences around the world and via all project partners. All material is available via the project website. OMA was presented to a wider scientific community at many international conferences including the International Particle Accelerators Conference and Beam Instrumentation Conference. It has also been presented at other meetings for a wider scientific and medical community.
OMA also organized a number of high impact international outreach events: This included a pan-European event to celebrate the 150th birthday of Marie Skłodowska–Curie and promote the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, an annual Physics of Star Wars event, outreach talks by research leaders and Fellows in countries around the world, and an international Symposium on Accelerators for Science and Society. These activities have reached Millions of people around the world online and in print.
