ECA Erasmus Study Program - Introduction & Competences

[ErikKusch]

Hi All,

to kickstart a tentative ERASMUS ECA study program focused on Biodiversity Informatics, I believe it might be good to share our respective capabilities in building and presenting teaching material.

I have relevant experience with creating and teaching courses on

• Biostatistics (see material on my website)
• Data management for individual research projects
• Data and code workflows and best practices in R

Lastly, I have authored several R packages and could contribute with any R teaching as needed. Chiefly, my KrigR package may be particularly relevant to complement biodiversity informatics with best-practices and novel data streams for cutting-edge climate data integration into biodiversity workflows.

Cheers,
Erik

[JuliaPawlowska]

Hi All,
here is the presentation from GBIF ECA nodes meeting.
Best,
Julia

[ErikKusch]

Presentation is now also added to this repository here. Sorry for the delay in doing this, @JuliaPawlowska !

[JuliaPawlowska]

Hi All, may be this will be of interest for some of you: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/eipc-webinar-promoting-competencies-digital-and-green-innovation-through-upskilling-and-reskilling-2024-03-01_en

[JuliaPawlowska]

Brief summary of current status (spring 2024) is uploaded here for further discussion, I hope that soon.

[JuliaPawlowska]

I would like to let you know that 4EU+ EMDM proposal was not funded but we received good feedback and at least some of us would like to reapply next February with more specific application called for the moment "quantitative biodiversity".

The nice thing is that for the next call we can apply as a completely new consortium. So I would like to know who is interested in potentially joining consortium?

In the EMDM (Erasmus Mundus Design Measure: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/opportunities/opportunities-for-organisations/cooperation-among-organisations-and-institutions/erasmus-mundus-design-measures-emdm?facets__field_eac_tags=185) application consortium members must be HEI (higher education institution) and an associate partner can be any institution. EMDM are awarded in form of lamp sum 60k euros for 15 months for leading institution, which is in charge of spending them for whole consortium to achieve defined goals. EMJM (Erasmus Mundus Joint Master https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/opportunities/opportunities-for-organisations/cooperation-among-organisations-and-institutions/erasmus-mundus-joint-masters?facets__field_eac_tags=186) is bigger deal. Project budget can go up to €5 million per project for 6 years. Here each consortium member (must be HEI) will have separate budget. Organizations not being HEIs can't have their own budget, but can be invited for teaching and be payed from budget of full consortium members.

As far as I know, when a specific node is affiliated/hosted at the univeristy/acedemia/technical school (in HEI) this hosting institution should officially sign a consortium agreement. It is completely internal to decide between node and HEI how this can be arranged. If a specific node is not affiliated with HEI then it can be only associate partner:(

I think it would be good to think about specific ideas and how to proceed further. We could start to work on common proposal in early October, reusing some experience we already have from previous call.

[dagendresen]

It is my understanding that the University of Oslo Natural History Museum (host of the Norwegian GBIF node) is interested to join and contribute to a renewed application. I will facilitate the sharing of information with relevant colleagues in Oslo.

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