Common use of Training and Induction Clause in Contracts

Training and Induction. Creating a large, varied user community across Europe and beyond is one of the central objectives of the EGEE. User Training and Induction activity – NA3 – which focuses on meeting the following objectives: • To produce a portfolio of training material and courses from introductory to advanced user material. • To use this material to train a wide variety of users both internal to the EGEE consortium and from the external user groups from across Europe who will make use of the infrastructure. • To ensure an EGEE Team Spirit is engendered early in the project’s lifetime. The outcome of this activity will be twofold: firstly the creation of a well trained group of EGEE users across the European Union and from a wide variety of disciplines, secondly the creation of a set of high quality training material, in a variety of European languages. The activity will be lead by the UK National e-Science Centre, building on its existing expertise in this area within the UK e-Science Programme. Supporting the lead partner are 21 organisations from across Europe. These organisations will provide a focus for training in their local region, assist with and run training courses and, where appropriate, translate training material into their own language. Application Identification and Support The Application Identification and Support activity will support the induction of new users, new communities and new virtual organisations into EGEE community. It will develop and disseminate appropriate information to these groups proactively addressing them and their needs. The objectives are to identify, through a well-defined integration procedure which starts with the dissemination actions (NA2), a portfolio of early user applications from a broad range of application sectors from academia, industry and commerce. A significant and well trained workforce will then be devoted to each new selected community to support development and production use of all of its applications on the EGEE infrastructure and thereby establish a strong user base on which to build a broad EGEE user community. A special role will be given to two pilot application areas – Particle Physics and Biomedical sciences. These two communities are already grid-aware and ready to deploy challenging real applications at the very beginning of EGEE. They will provide invaluable feedback to the whole infrastructure. A strong management and coordination structure will oversee the work in each application area, monitor the integration process and optimize cross-application fertilization to define common application interfaces and tools. This activity will deal primarily with expert representatives of communities. The goal is to ensure that all EGEE users are well supported. The activity will assimilate and evaluate records of the work and provide information to the requirements and planning activities.