Education and Training

Lead by Josefine Lenz, APECS, Germany  () and Katharina Beckmann, Lund University, Sweden ()

Scope of group:

• Sharing experience
• Knowledge exhange
• Linking networks
• Funding.

Gateways for education:

• Virtual: online, webinars, online courses
• In-person and on-site: schools, training, field courses, workshops
• Materials: educational material, field guides, factsheets and videos.

Specific training activities - upcoming:

• INTERACT Machine Learning Algorithm (IMLA) tagging Challenge to categorize datasets in the INTERACT Data Portal (win prizes!), open until 30 November 2021

Specific training activities - past: 

• International Conference for Young MArine REsearchers (ICYMARE), 21-24 September 2021, online, FACE-IT

• eScience Tools in Climate Science: Linking Observations with Modelling, 1-8 November 2021, Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Sweden plus 2 days virtual (tentatively 22-23 November 2021), FORCeS

• ARCSAR TTX event, 9-10 November, online

• SIOS Training course on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing (HIRScourse), 6-10 September 2021, online, SIOS

• KEPLER ECR workshop https://kepler-polar.eu/2021/02/15/kepler-ecr-workshop/

Education Task Group project contacts:

Communications Task Group

Lead by Elaina Ford, British Antarctic Survey () (KEPLER, Arctic PASSION, EU PolarNet 2, ARICE)

Co-lead Susan Millar, Uopsala University (JustNorth)

The Communications Task Group is responsible for:

• Cluster branding (logo design, templates)
• This website polarcluster.eu
• Internal communications
  • Teams collaboration platform
  • Resources
  • Templates, logos
• Organising monthly Cluster meetings
• External Communications - dissemination activities
• Newsletters
• Social media
  • Twitter use the hash tag #EUPolarCluster
  • Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/eupolarcluster

Communication Task Group Representatives for the projects are: 

Policy Advice Task Group

This is a new Task Group formed December 2020.

It's primary aim will be to coordinate messages from member projects to policy makers, primarily in the European Commission. 

The Policy Advice Task Group lead is Nicole Biebow, AWI (EU-PolarNet and ARICE), and co-lead is Gustav Sigeman, Uppsala University (JUSTNORTH)

This group:

• Includes points of contact for advice representing the expertise of their respective EU Polar Cluster project;
• Will promote a close cooperation between the EU Polar Cluster projects in organising policy briefings or other joint actions.

Tasks:

• To provide fast responses as required to the EC and national decision makers to address any urgent needs and demands for scientific advice;
• To transfer scientific knowledge to regional, national and EU-level policymakers to contribute to evidence-based decision making;
• To interactwith all EU Polar Cluster projects to utilise their expertise for policy advice.

Plans for joint activities

• Used the pool of expertise in the Cluster to support your projects own events/plans;
• Gain more attention by jointly organising Policy briefings or Town Hall Meetings to inform decision makers on Polar topics of high political relevance;
• Consider to jointly produce briefing documents and/orthematicfact sheets targeted to policy makers.

Policy Advice Task Group representatives for the projects are:

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