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# Training Steering Group April 2024
**Date & Time:** April 15, 10:00-12:00
**Connection details:** https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/62955236256
**TrSG book:** https://hackmd.io/@elinkronander/TrSG/%2F5SYwXztaTpKrn95vDPh1jw

## Welcome 🙌🏽

## Code of Conduct reminder
Adopted from the [Recurse Rules](https://www.recurse.com/social-rules)
* Be respectful, honest, inclusive, accommodating, appreciative, and open to learning from everyone else.
* Do not attack, demean, disrupt, harass, or threaten others or encourage such behavior.
* Be patient, allow others to speak, and use the zoom reactions & chat if you would like to voice something. 
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## :hourglass_flowing_sand: Agenda:

| Duration    | Activity                                                     | Time        |
| ----------- |:------------------------------------------------------------ |:----------- |
| 5 mins      | Welcome and housekeeping                                     | 10:00-10:05 |
| 15 mins     | (information) NBIS TrC                               | 10:05-10:20 |
| 30 mins     | (information) NBIS TrLs              | 10:20-10:50
 **10 mins**  | **Break**                                                                       | 10:50-11:00 |
| 30 mins     | Declining course applicants?                                 | 11:00-11:30 |
| 10 mins     | AOB (any other business)                                   | 11:30-11:40 |
| 10 mins     | Wrap-up & communications                                   | 11:40-11:50 |

## Links & Resources:


## Rollcall:
🗣 Name/🐸 pronouns/✍🏼 Team affiliation and Site

Elin Kronander/she-her/TrC-DM/ Uppsala
Anna Johansson / she,her / CMB,, Uppsala
Louella/She / HaC Lund
Tomas / He / EvoBio / Chalmers
Katja / she,her / MISB, Lund
Caroline/She,her/AIDA, Linköping
Stephan / - / DM / Chalmers/UU
Nanjiang / He / SySDev / Stockolm, SU

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## Information from NBIS TrC
- Completed migration to the new Training gdrive - almost
    - Courses with ongoing application still using the old link.  Some files with non-SciLifeLab email ownership havent been moved.
- SOP for Industry spots in NBIS courses is now in place and enforced
- Updates to templates, looking into automatic notifications
- Social media templates for course announcements and reminders
- Training report 2022-2023 in preparation (see [Report for 2020-2021](2021-22 (https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1118982.1))for reference)
- FAIR Training Material by Design,  18-19 September [see](https://www.scilifelab.se/event/fair-training-material-by-design/)
- Restructuring of NBIS Training webpage is in progress
 

## Information from NBIS TrLs
Follow up from last meeting: Topic/issue to discuss in the June Training meeting


|  Team | Notes |
| -------- | -------- |
| Advisory Program|   All new students have had the first meetings. Registration open for Grand meeting in May (16-17) |
| AIDA | AI course for clinicians in May, fewer applicants. Maybe due to bad economy.  |
| BIIF |
| Cell & molecular biology|  Three new employees, will be formally onboarded     |
| Data Management     |   Three new employees beginning in May-June. Onboardning an open question. Intro DM-course beginning next week. Industry outreach on GDPR.    |
| EvoBio | Internal team training weekly |
| Health and Clinical  |  John Lövrot to be onboarded eom.  ML Biostats 1 next week. RaukR also lower number of registrants, but enough numbers. | 
| Microbiology, Immunology and Structural Biology     |ongoing recruitment for proteomics (SU), cryoEM course April 15-16|
| Systems development     | Intro Python course has been planned (Nov 11-15)  |
| UPPMAX/Compute and Storage|    |


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## Break (10 mins)

## Declining number of applicants?
1. What does the numbers look like, [spreadsheet](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10K8G1u949B41Yz6eeAD_LVc-oBMZjz3g?usp=drive_link), [summary plot](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1llcSB-G6ls-dobajXz3SuejSy-IBstGk/view?usp=drive_link)
2. Possible reasons
* online vs onsite is very difficult to understand if it's a factor
    * depending on the difficulty level and duration of the course
* there's a lot of online courses offered
* not advertised enough
* low number of demands for some of the NBIS courses
* increasing number of mandatory University-taught courses for PhD students so not enough time left to take the cool NBIS courses
* Economy issues with some Departments in paying for course fees
* Is there a correlation with outlier numbers (highest vs lowest number) with course rating or a specific event?
     
3. Brainstorming for solutions/actions to take
* consider adding questions in the evaluation form
    * Are you willing to travel
* survey advisory program students at grand meeting
* ECTS-eligibility
* overview schedule/learning paths only once per year
* hybrid (online and IRL) solution
* offer some courses to Master's students

## AOB



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## Wrap-up & Communications

* ### What to BRING BACK to your team?
    * Application for FAIR Training by Design is open, [see](https://www.scilifelab.se/event/fair-training-material-by-design/)
    * Reminder, always check to use tha latest templates
        * for example always advertise industry fee

* ### What to CATCH from your team? 
  * 


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## Next meeting: 
Monday May 17, 10:00-12:00