EOSC-Life Final report on EOSC-Life training activities and their impact

This document outlines the training activities that have been completed since the beginning of the grant and their impact. The EOSC-Life training programme is built on the training needs analysis, which was presented in D9.1 Final report of analysis of the training needs of different EOSC-Life users in month 12. EOSC-Life training is aimed at two target communities that have distinct needs and different roles towards establishing a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): (i) the Research Infrastructures (data) staff and (ii) the end-user of the (data) services offered. 

The deliverable gives an overview on the wide range of training offers completed, which highlight that EOSC-Life managed extremely well to ensure cross WP involvement and adapted the training to remote offers during the pandemic restrictions. Since the training activities described in D9.2 Review of EOSC-Life training activities, their impact and potential adaptations, our focus has been on developing and publishing the e-learning materials, while activities around courses, workshops and open calls continued. In total, since the beginning of the project we have supported over 1000 participants with in-person/virtual training and over 6000 participants with e-learning. 

Training in EOSC-Life has been organised in a top-down as well as bottom-up approach; top-down training activities have been organised by the technical work packages in EOSC-Life as well as the training work package, while the Training Open Call process allows for training activities organised by the EOSC-Life community to receive EOSC-Life support. All training activities relate to the needs analysis. Three rounds of the Training Open Call have been completed, in total we received 22 applications and 15 proposals received funding. 

In conclusion, EOSC-Life training activities were a driver and sustainer of the EOSC-Life community and an important pillar in reaching external audiences.