TEACH - Talk about Education Across Communities in Helmholtz

7 Dec 2021, 08:30 → 10 Dec 2021, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

https://gather.town/app/nkxyTbuI84smfiQk/HMC-Workshop-Lounge?spawnToken=5FXA4rxNFkYpM8tB

TEACH with us!

Fostering the development of young scientists is a central part of the Helmholtz mission. Talent management in Helmholtz is dedicated to personal and professional development for researchers of all qualification levels, ranging from undergraduate students to established scientists at all Helmholtz Centers.

The development and management of training programs and courses for doctoral researchers, Postdocs or research groups requires skills and resources.

This participant-driven event brings together

• Training Coordinators
• Instructors and Trainers
• Personnel Developers
• Researchers

to exchange experience and best practices, collaborate and share resources on the whole education life cycle, and — of course — specific training programs.

With the colleagues from different Helmholtz Centers and partnering institutions we have put together a four-day program that will give you opportunity to network and dive into education topics across disciplines.

Scroll down to find all abstracts and descriptions in the timetable below.

 

Registration

This is an open community event. Everyone interested is welcome to join!

We don't expect everyone to participate in all 4 days but pick the slots they are interested in.

Meet us in gather.town

We are very much looking forward to meet at TEACH !

 

This event is a cooperation of:
Helmholtz Federated IT Services - HIFIS
Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration - HMC
Helmholtz Open Science Office
Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy - HIDA
Helmholtz Talent Management

Tuesday 7 December

08:55 → 13:00 Tuesday: Morning

09:00 Arrival

Get started with the GatherTown session. Opportunity to check technical setups, ask organizational questions and to get to know the location.

09:30 Welcome to TEACH

Opening words to the conference, organizational details and introduction to the involved platforms and offices.

Speakers: Fredo Erxleben (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Lea Maria Ferguson (Helmholtz Association, Helmholtz Open Science Office), Sophie Ehrmanntraut (HIDA - Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy @ Helmholtz Association of German Reserach Centers)

2021-11-18_HMC-General_V6.pdf

2021-11-18_HMC-Hightlight_V7.pdf

2021-11-18_HMCProjects_Inkubator_v6.pdf

Greeting_President.pdf

Helmholtz_AI_overview_poster_a0.pdf

Helmholtz_Imaging.pdf

HIFIS_Plakat.png

Open Science and Open Educational Resources (Helmholtz Open Science Office)

Open Science in the Helmholtz Association (Poster)

Poster_Helmholtz Leadership Academy.pdf

Poster_HIDA_TEACH.pdf

10:30 Breakfast

11:00 Teaching Machine Learning Workshop - 2 years in, 2 or more thoughts out

As a co-organizer of the Teaching Machine Learning Workshop at ECMLPKDD, I'd like to share our experience in striving to host a mixture of communities to share and discuss advances in teaching of ML to any level of prior knowledge.

What was thought of a small event on the European level, has now become an event at international scale. I'll distill essential outcomes that have relevance to Helmholtz.

Speaker: Peter Steinbach (HZDR)

presentation slides on figshare.com

11:30 Developing an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program from Scratch

In 2019, Forschungszentrum Jülich developed a comprehensive training program for young scientists to foster an innovation culture as well as to improve participants´ skills regarding innovation, entrepreneurship and knowledge- & technology transfer.
In my talk I would like to share my experiences and discuss challenges we are still facing.

Speaker: Daniel Braun

12:00 Teaching AI to teenagers

We, researchers from HZDR/Helmholtz AI, recently opened three hacking-labs in Dresden, Görlitz and Freiberg: we are teaching teenagers to program AI. These hacking-labs are backed by a program called "Jugend hackt". It's an easy way to get in touch with AI and it increases the visibility of Helmholtz AI.
Our principles for teaching are: having fun, explorative learning, individual responsibility and making the world a better place. That means for us to place the participants in the focus of the lab. Not our goals, but the goals of the teenagers lead us the way. But how to realize that in practice? We tried different methods, organized workshops and open labs and gained a lot of experience. As the teenagers are getting better in programming we are getting better at supporting them.

Speaker: Helene Hoffmann

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:00 Tuesday: Afternoon

13:30 Personas and learning paths for digitized research, non-computer scientists

The digitization of research requires the development of researcher’s digital skillset. However, most researchers are often not trained in these skills. Even worse, currently, we observe a lack of clear learning paths for obtaining these essential skills.
In this workshop, we want to discuss avenues to improve this situation. First, we want to identify personas for researchers. On this basis, we discuss which learning topics are relevant for these groups and outline learning paths.

Speakers: Mrs Carolina Lautz (DLR e.V.), Florian Krebs (DLR e.V.), Mrs Hilke Bülau (DLR e.V.), Tobias Schlauch (DLR)

Conceptboard

TEACH-Personas and learning paths for digitized research_V2.pdf

TEACH with us! - Personas and learning paths for digitized research for non-computer scientists.pdf

Wednesday 8 December

09:00 → 12:30 Wednesday: Morning

09:00 Formats out of the box

In this workshop we want to discuss unconventional workshop formats and unconventional ways of approaching our target groups. Exemplary questions that we want to address within the workshop are:
• Workshop Formats: Which new and unconventional formats have you tried in the past? What worked best to get people involved? Which experiences do you have with (facilitated or peer) group coaching?
• Communication:: Which unconventional formats are you using to invite to your events? What are good ways to reach leaders?
After an exchange on these two topics, ideas for new formats will be developed in small working groups.

Speakers: Sophia Zorell, Anne Mazuga

Padlet

10:30 Breakfast

11:00 Teaching An Introduction to Machine Learning to 40 or more students

In this talk, I'd like to report on recent attempts to teach an introductory course to PhD students, master students and postdocs in order to teach them Machine Learning. I hope to summarize our approach and share insights based on empirical data from learner feedback surveys. We used an inverted classroom approach as pioneered by i2ml of Heidi Seibold, Bernd Bischl et al. For the introduction to Deep Learning that is part of this curriculum, we took inspiration from a carpentries' incubator project on the same topic.

Speaker: Peter Steinbach (HZDR)

presentation slides

11:30 The PIER Education Platform as a Cross-institutional Qualification Program for Early Career Scientists

PIER is the strategic Partnership for Innovation, Education and Research between DESY and Universität Hamburg. Since 2013 the core of the Education section is the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School. The rapid growth of the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld leads to an increasing number of researchers, institutions and graduate schools on Campus. Thus, in 2020, we founded the PIER Education Platform to expand our qualification program to PhD students from other schools and most recently also to postdocs from partner institutions. We offer to share our experience in integrating needs, interests and limits of multiple stakeholders in a cross-institutional qualification program.

Speakers: Dr Theresa Schredelseker (PIER - strategic partnership between DESY and University of Hamburg), Mr Mirko Siemssen (PIER - strategic partnership between DESY and University of Hamburg), Ms Sinikka Seidl (PIER - strategic partnership between DESY and University of Hamburg), Dr Marion Stange (PIER - strategic partnership between DESY and University of Hamburg), Ms Stefanie Tepass (PIER - strategic partnership between DESY and University of Hamburg)

TEACH_PIER-Education-Platform_TS3.pdf

12:00 The Carpentries: Software, Data and Library Carpentry

The Carpentries: Software, Data and Library Carpentry

Speaker: Rabea Müller (The Carpentries)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:00 Wednesday: Afternoon

13:30 First steps in Kotlin

Goal

Enable the participants to write their own scripts/programs/DSL/wrappers/building-tool-script in Kotlin.

Content

The course will introduce basic concepts of the language. Emphasis will be put on live coding (i.e. learners write their code along with the instructors) and overcoming the initial learning hurdles together. Hands-on exercises give the opportunity to test the newly acquired knowledge.

Speakers: Giuseppe Barbieri (Casus), Alexander Nozik

14:30 Fortbildungsangebote für Trainer im Bereich Digitale Lehre / E-Learning

Folgende digitale Fortbildungsangebote für Trainerinnen im Bereich Digitale Lehre / E-Learning werden vorgestellt (Inhalte, Zeitaufwand, Kosten):
- Medienkompetenz in der Lehre
- Lehren und Lernen mit digitalen Medien
- Die digitale Praxis für Erwachsenenbildnerinnen
- Erwachsenenbildung im Online-Raum
- E-Learning für Bibliotheken
Links zu diesen und weiteren digitalen Fortbildungsangeboten für Trainerinnen sammeln wir anschliessend z.B. in einem Etherpad zur Nachnutzung für alle Teilnehmerinnen.

Speaker: Gudrun Witzler (AWI)

Etherpad Digitale Fortbildungsangebote für Trainer*innen im Bereich Digitale Lehre / E-Learning

WitzlerDigitaleFortbildung.pdf

15:00 Coffee

15:30 Creating GatherTown Rooms from Scratch

GatherTown is a video-conferencing platform with many possible interactions among participants and between participants and content elements.
This, combined with intuitive interactions and spontaneous formation of breakout rooms makes the platform a good choice for online workshops or conferences.

In this Workshop we will explore design considerations, tools and workflows to create custom workshop rooms from scratch, as well as the interaction possibilities offered by GatherTown

Speaker: Fredo Erxleben (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

Presentation Slides

Thursday 9 December

09:00 → 12:30 Thursday: Morning

09:00 Attracting talent to the middle of nowhere: internship programs for international master students

Scientists based at Helmholtz institutes often do not have direct access to local master students as university colleagues do. Therefore, many Helmholtz institutes are very open to accepting international applicants for doctoral projects, and good visibility in the international community is vital.

We present two internship programs for MSc students regularly offered in Jülich that reliably help us attract new Ph.D. students. Furthermore, we provide insights that we gained by running our programs and opportunities for you to share experiences and exchange ideas around (a) organizing an in-person program, (b) advertising the program, and (c) dealing with alumni. Furthermore, we would like to discuss new opportunities and pitfalls with virtual and hybrid formats triggered by teleworking.

Speakers: Ivo Kabadshow (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Thorsten Auth (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Teach_Conferenc03.pdf

10:30 Breakfast

11:00 An integrated R Markdown pipeline for the creation and efficient maintenance of technical teaching materials

At the Helmholtz Zentrum München we frequently run courses. Our courses consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercise sessions, often requiring the use of statistical programing software, such as R or Python, and exemplary datasets. Lecture slides are prepared as pdf documents, and exercises as both pdf and html format. Each file has a version for the instructor and one for participants. For each course, we therefore must manage multiple files in multiple formats and versions. The manual maintenance of such a high volume of files is impractical, time-consuming, and error-prone. Our solution is an integrated R Markdown pipeline: at the press of a button all the various formats and versions of our files are produced and compressed into a single ZIP-folder ready for distribution.

Speakers: Elmar Spiegel (Helmholtz Zentrum München), Marina Jimenez Munoz

11:30 Training "FAIR data management, guidelines and tools". Planning the pilot course at Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration - Hub Matter

The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) calls for the transfer of knowledge to the community. In the context of HMC Hub Matter we have developed a workflow for delivering training which is supported by cyclic quality control, and guidelines and templates on how to implement this training offering ensuring its value beyond a single training instance. This is reflective of how the training service is tailored to the researchers specific needs: it is modular, flexible and in continuous development and review.
Within the Hub tools for data curation are developed (Guenther 2021) and our training offer is fully integrated with it. We present here work from our pilot course including: didactic units, didactic plan, and evaluation rubric.

Speaker: Luigia Cristiano (HZB)

TEACH_Cris.pdf

12:00 Forming Federal Communities

Leisure Walk-In Walk-Out Hackathon/Bazaar of ideas on the topic of how to support PhD students and scientific staff with programming skills to enhance their research efficiency.

We will be designing approaches towards long-term learner retention and forming communities as an additional goal of the teaching events.
Also, we will collect ideas how to promote isolated teaching events to a solution which can be easily adapted Helmhholtz-wide and how to interconnect the resulting communities.

Speaker: Mani Lokamani (HZDR)

Shared Board

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Thursday: Afternoon

13:30 The Grant Writing Bootcamp: An internal boost funding program for DZNE postdocs

The “Grant Writing Bootcamp” provides postdocs at DZNE with the opportunity to work on a grant proposal and receive pilot funding (10,000€) for their own innovative research idea, particularly those with novel hypothesis and the potential for transformative results. Over a period of 4 months (consisting of two workshops and individual work), the 10 participants learn and apply methods how to refine their own research idea and write a convincing grant proposal. The idea refinement workshop uses different approaches from idea selling, business model innovation, and creativity techniques to assess and improve the research idea. ... see file

Speakers: Silke Thul (DZNE), Janine Lücke (DZNE)

14:00 H^3: The Helmholtz Herbst Hackathon

In September 2021, we organized the Helmholtz Herbst Hackathon, a data science hackathon targeting PhD students and PostDocs in the Helmholtz Association. 45 participants mostly from the six Helmholtz Information and Data Science Schools (HIDSS) worked on data science challenges from various scientific domains. Especially after the long isolation due to the pandemic, we focused the program on personal interaction, exchange, and collaboration and created a more collaborative than competitive atmosphere. The data challenges were based on the Jülich Data Challenge platform [1]. Science to Physical Analytics. All participants were offered an introductory course to the HAICORE compute resources beforehand and were guided throughout the hackathon by a team of Helmholtz AI consultants.

Speaker: Stefan Kesselheim (FZ Jülich)

Friday 10 December

09:00 → 12:30 Friday: Morning

09:00 Discussion on a joint H-Platform communication strategy in the area of training

All Helmholtz Incubator Platforms and many Helmholtz Institutions offer training formats aimed at the Helmholtz community. Some of these courses are intended for a wider target group while other training formarts are intended for narrower, more selected groups such as experts in a specific field. Since a common Helmholtz-wide communication system such as a training platform or a cross-center email list is missing, we would like to discuss how the platforms can cooperate and support each other in order to achieve a joint, target group-oriented promotion of training formats. This communication strategy should be well coordinated, reach as many centers and as many target groups as possible. For the joint discussion we will prepare miroboards to summarize ideas and possible solutions.

Speakers: Mirl Trösch (Geomar Helmholtz Research Center), Jan Steffen (Geomar Helmholtz Research Center)

20211210_TEACH_discussion_table_WrapUp.pdf

10:30 Breakfast

11:00 Closing Event

Speakers: Fredo Erxleben (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf), Sophie Ehrmanntraut (HIDA - Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy @ Helmholtz Association of German Reserach Centers)