# Training Steering Group January 2024
**Date & Time:** 15 January 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 |
| 5 mins | Round table introductions | 10:05-10:10 |
| 15 mins | (information) NBIS TrC | 10:10-10:25 |
| 25 mins | (information) NBIS TrLs | 10:25-10:50
**10 mins** | **Break** | 10:50-11:00 |
| 20 mins | Internal Training needs | 11:00-11:20 |
| 15 mins | TrSG goals for 2024 | 11:20-11:40 |
| 10 mins | AOB (any other business) | 11:40-11:50 |
| 10 mins | Wrap-up & communications | 11:50-12:00 |

## Links & Resources:
NBIS Training pages on the intranet https://scilifelab.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NBISINTRA/pages/2573238860/NBIS+Training

## Rollcall:
🗣 Name/🐸 pronouns/✍🏼 Team affiliation and Site /✨looking forward to in 2024
* Elin/she,her /TrC DM - Uppsala/ Lead NBIS training
* Caroline/she, her/AIDA - Linköping/Go skiing
* Anna /she,her / CMB / First some skiing, then spring and summer
* Louella/ she/ HaC, Lund/ Babyzilla becomes more independent from Mummy
* Lokesh/he,him/MISB, Lund/ Learn cross-country skiing properly
* Gisele/ she, her/ Stockholm/ Improve my Swedish
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## Information from NBIS TrC
* Follow up from NBIS Training meeting 28 November
- alternative teaching rooms
- storage solutions for data set
* Support/Training strategy meeting
- training statistics
- internal training needs
- [NBIS Training guidelines for time allocation and role descriptions (README)](https://docs.google.com/document/d/11fH3OmSoBKgrb3-7xEPfPGx80BFhMmJoOY8Bxt6QphE/edit)
- staffing and new courses
* Shared Google Drive
* NBIS Intranet

## Information from NBIS TrLs
Follow up from last meeting

| Team | Notes |
| -------- | -------- |
| AIDA | |
| BIIF | BIIF will be hiring one new employee. Ad will be out in January
| Cell & molecular biology| 2 new ppl during spring, involved in training from the start |
| Data Management | GDPR workshop in preparation, will try to involve bioinformatician for teaching R in Introduction to DM practices in April |
| EvoBio | |
| Health and Clinical | Emilio Marmol leaving; meeting about sensitive data handling to start in Jan, HaC will offer as internal training |
| Microbiology, Immunology and Structural Biology |New people: Matilda (Umeå) and Katja (Lund). Along with these two new comers, cryo-EM experts will also be onboarded in the upcoming weeks together! There are some plans in relation to deeloping a **structural biology course** that the cryo-EM experts will take the lead on.|
| Systems development | |
| UPPMAX/Compute and Storage| UPPMAX intro course ongoing this week, 2-day Awk workshop next week, new *praktikant* (part-time AE) |
| Advisory program| Evaluating new applications around 65 applicants this year and aim to accept 15. Remind team members to sign up |

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## Break (10 mins)

## Internal training needs and contributions

### Preferred format
* Despends a bit on the topic, short format

### What would we want to learn from team X?
* How to submit data to ArrayExpress? from DM team
* Common analysis methods and outputs from different data types (from all support teams)
* Information security (SCoRe)
* Code best practices (SysDev)

### What could we teach other teams that might be relevant for many NBISers?
* GDPR workshop (DM)
* Publishing code/FAIR software (DM)
* data organisation (DM)
* Handling of sensitive data (HaC)

## Goals for NBIS TrSG 2024
-- brainstorming session --

Read through the Training [Vision and Mission](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZW_IQsVju-XAwpoYmfyBC2OUxhtUBzWgfUFdEcAzk1Q/edit#heading=h.mve3esebjx2i)

### General ideas
* Advertise/outreach broader
* Provide support for upcoming new courses
* Reach the DDLS community and interaction with the DDLS fellows

### Methodology standards
*

### High quality
* Impact measurements by using ELIXIRs long term feedback evaluations
* "SOP" for following-up the feedback and support how to act on the feedback

### Professional development
* Offer an online TrT given sufficient interest, in addition to an onsite course

### Accessibility
* Provide training and instructions on how to get a doi and register the trainig material in TeSS
* Reach more researchers outside Stockholm/Uppsala region

### Collaboration
* Explore funding to invite non-Sweden based speakers for the NBIS course

## AOB

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## Wrap-up & Communications

* ### What to BRING BACK to your team?
* Advisory program is looking for advisors, deadline 26th Jan
* Application form update, always use the latest version of the template!

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

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## Next meeting:
19 February 13:00-15:00