Education and Training at IST Conference, Helsinki

INFSO-SSA-26637

International Collaboration to International Collaboration to Extend and Advance Grid Extend and Advance Grid EducationEducation

Education and Trainingat

IST Conference, Helsinki

Malcolm Atkinson

Director e-Science InstituteUK e-Science Envoy23rd November 2006

IST Conference, Helsinki: 23 November 2006INFSO-SSA-26637

Abraham Lincoln

Take Home Story

• To take advantage of e-Infrastructure– Make commensurate investments

In Education In Training

• Education, Training & Outreach– Essential to support emergence of e-Infrastructure

• Education, Training & Outreach– Vital to exploiting e-Infrastructure

• Engage more minds in creating our future• Engage young minds in creating their future

If you think the cost of education is expensive, consider the cost of ignorance


What is important?


Where does investment have most impact?


Which is Europe’s Greatest Asset?


Choose: Educate or Waste Investment


What & who do we teach – in times of change?

• Grunts & body language 500,000 years

• Speech 50,000 years

• Writing 5,000 years

• Printing 500 years

• Tele-communications 50 years

• Broadcasting 50 years

• Home computers• Internet & WWW• Mobile phones• Grid & Web2.0• Web3.0 & Ubiquitous

connected devices

• Famous wrong predictions– The UK will never need more

than 3 computers– There is no market for bitmap

displays– No one will want a computer

at home– 640Kbytes is enough memory

for anyone• Global grids – EGEE & OSG• Web 2.0

– Sharing & community action– MySpace,

MyStreet, • Mobile phones

– More countries than UN– 2.7 billion users– > 40 billion SMS in UK in 2006– 2008 Handset < €15 to make

You are here

€

• In 30 years“Wellbeing” the global-scale killer

app., Sir Robin Saxby Oct. 2006


Complementary Approaches

• Training– Targeted– Immediate goals– Specific skills– Building a workforce

• Education– Pervasive– Long term and sustained– Generic conceptual models– Developing a culture

• Both are needed

Society

Graduates

EducationInnovation

Invests

PreparesCreate

Enriches

Organisation

Skilled Workers

TrainingServices & Applications

Invests

PreparesDevelop

Strengthens

Emphasis here in times of change


The Challenge & Response

• Challenge– Engaging best minds– Reaching citizens– Motivating change– Creating curricula– Creating teaching material– Supporting teaching– Educating educators– Scaling up

• For all disciplines• For all levels E & T• And rapidly adapting to

– Advances in understanding– Social change– Technology change

• Response– Collaboration & pooling– Across Europe– Globally – Europe led– But today far short of

what is needed• EGEE & EGEE II Training

– > 30 active partners– Training team & events– Shared material, portal &

t-Infrastructure– Aiming for catalysis

• CT7: Training Activities• ICEAGE Education

– Forum & policy– Influence & Support

Working together


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EGEE II Training

• Leading international collaboration– http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk– 32 EGEE II partners– ~20 associated projects

• Training events– 67 events since April ’06– + contributions to 3 Summer

Schools– 1333 attendees

• Pool of Training Material– Digital library

http://egee.lib.ed.ac.uk

• Self-paced learning• T-Infrastructure

– Gilda https://gilda.ct.infn.it– gLite training VO

•Impressions – GridKa School 2005Dr. Mike Mineter / EGEE


CT7: Training Activities

• Bringing together training & education– From all EU Grid Research

& Grid Infrastructure projects

– Led by CoreGrid www.coregrid.net

– Chaired by Rosa Badia– Co-chair David Fergusson– Training Roadmap– Coordinated list of events– Common processes based

on EGEE training– CoreGrid Summer Schools

80 participants @ CSS06 B, CH, CL, CZ, D, ES, F,

GR, HU, IT, NL, UK 35 lectures, 25 lecturers


ICEAGE

• International Collaboration– Grid Education

http://www.iceage-eu.org/• Forum 57 members

– 40 attended 9 countries– Aim to influence

• Services for Educators– Digital library– Self-paced learning– Educate the educators

• Summer Schools– Five in 2006 – 230 students– Led ISSGC06– Five in preparation

• T-Infrastructure– Advances driven by Summer

Schools


Paths to Influence

• e-IRG– Education & Training TF– Led by ICEAGE & UK– Identifying policy– Framing cooperation– Outreach

• Open Grid Forum– Education & Training CG– Met GGF16 Athens

onwards– Led from Europe– Pooling ideas– Sharing resources– International policy– Outreach


Summary & Reminder

• Research is powered be well-educated people• Invest in Education & Training

– It is essential for innovation– It is essential for the European Citizens– It is essential for business & health– It is essential for our culture

• Europe’s students will understand & respond

• Start nowdon’t talk about it – do it

and Create our

Future

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OtherwiseRoI on yourother investments

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