Climate change is a complex challenge demanding a skilled and knowledgeable workforce. IRISCC recognises this need and is committed to building capacity through a comprehensive training and knowledge exchange program. Work Package 3 (WP3) spearheads this initiative, aiming to equip researchers, institutions, and stakeholders with the expertise required to tackle climate change risks head-on.
Training
Sharpen Your Skills, Tackle The Climate Change Risks
Why?
Our Mission
- Maximise Impact: Ensure widespread adoption and utilisation of IRISCC’s resources and services.
- Develop Expertise: Enhance climate change risk assessment skills for researchers and practitioners.
- Foster Innovation: Harvest insights from the IRISCC Demonstrators to drive innovation in climate service development.
- Cultivate Collaboration: Build a vibrant knowledge exchange network across research infrastructures for a sustainable future.
Future Training Opportunities
IRISCC is launching a training programme to support researchers, institutions, and innovators in making the most of climate-related research infrastructure services. The training covers a mix of practical topics, capacity building, and community engagement, delivered in varied, engaging formats.
Webinars
1
The IRISCC Catalogue of Services (CoS)
- Audience: Research community
- Timing: Summer 2025 (3rd & 6th June)
- Objectives: To facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences,
promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-exchange culture
2
Research Infrastructures (RIs) in IRISCC
- Audience: Research community
- Timing: Winter – Spring 2026 (4th February – 29th April)
- Objectives: To facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences,
promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-exchange culture
3
The D4Science Virtual Research Environment (VRE)
- Audience: Research community
- Timing: Autumn 2025
- Objectives: To facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences, promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-exchange culture
4
Data stewardship
- Audience: Research community
- Timing: Spring 2026
- Objectives To: facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences, promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-exchange culture
5
IRISCC demonstrators
- Audience: Research community
- Timing:
Summer – autumn 2026
- Objectives: To facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences,
promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-exchange culture
6
RISCC Service Design Labs (SDLs)
- Audience: Research community
- Timing:
Spring – Summer 2028
- Objectives: To facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences,
promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-exchange culture
Webinar Recordings
Tutorials
1
IRISCC CoS virtual tour
- Target Audience: Research community, Policy makers, Commercial users, Societal users
- Timing: Spring 2025
- Objectives: To facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences,
promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture
2
Applying for transnational access for IRISCC users
- Audience: Research community, Policy makers, Commercial users, Societal users
- Timing: Summer 2025
- Objectives: To facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences,
promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture
3
Evaluating transnational access applications for IRISCC providers
- Audience: Research community, Policy makers, Commercial users, Societal users
- Timing: Summer – Autumn 2025
- Objectives: To: facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences,
promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture
4
Peer-reviewing transnational access applications for IRISCC reviewers
Audience: Research community, Policy makers, Commercial users, Societal users
Timing: Summer – Autumn 2025
Objectives: To facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences,
promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture
Online Workshops
1
Populating the IRISCC CoS
Audience: Service providers
Timing: Winter 2025 (17th & 19th February)
Objectives: To foster collaboration, facilitate knowledge transfer, and build a knowledge-sharing culture
2
Online workshop: Coastal Flood Impact Analyser
Audience: Research community
Timing: Autumn 2026
Objectives: To improve skills, foster collaboration, facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences, build a knowledge-sharing culture
3
IS-ENES Virtual Research Environment (VRE)
Audience: Research community
Timing: Winter 2028
Objectives: To improve skills, foster collaboration, facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences, build knowledge-sharing culture
On-site Training & Workshops
1
FitSM IT service management
Audience: Research Infrastructures
Timing:
- Spring 2027 (online)
- Autumn 2025 (7th October, Marseille – France)
Objectives: To improve the IT service management skills
2
Data Interpolating Variational Analysis (DIVAnd) software tool
Audience: Research community
Timing:
Autumn 2025 (8th December) – Spring 2026 (Liège – Belgium)
Objectives: To improve skills, facilitate knowledge transfer, and empower participants/audiences, promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture
3
Engaging stakeholders in socio-ecological risk analysis
Audience: Research community
Timing: Summer 2026 (24th and 26th June, Vienna – Austria)
Objectives: To improve skills, foster collaboration, facilitate knowledge transfer, increase the effectiveness in policy and practice implementation, empower participants/audiences, promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture, encourage diversity of thought
4
Socio-ecological tools for stakeholder engagement
Audience: Research community
Timing: Spring 2027
Objectives: To improve skills, foster collaboration, facilitate knowledge transfer, increase the effectiveness in policy and practice implementation, empower participants/audiences, promote continuous learning, build a
knowledge-sharing culture, encourage diversity of thought
Summer and autumn schools
1
Summer school: Climate risks data analysis tools and methods
Audience: Research community
Timing: Summer 2026 (14th – 18th September, Chania – Greece)
Objectives: To improve skills, facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences, promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture
2
Spring school: High-performance scientific computing in terrestrial systems (HPSC TerrSys)
Audience: Research community
Timing: Spring 2027 (Jülich – Germany)
Objectives: To improve skills, facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences, promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture
3
Summer school: Data science for climate risks
Audience: Research community
Timing: Summer 2027
Objectives: To improve skills, facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences, promote continuous learning, build a knowledge-sharing culture
4
Hackathon: RiskHack
Audience: Research community, Data scientists, Developers
Timing: Autumn 2026 (online)
Objectives: To improve skills and competencies, foster collaboration, facilitate knowledge transfer, empower participants/audiences, build a knowledge-sharing culture, encourage diversity of thought, facilitate user interaction and service improvement
