5.5 The Innovativity of the Open Science Design
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nologies. At this level self-learning and self-assessing services are considered for
both the specific CMMST environment training and the more general educational
endeavors of the community for molecular science and technologies-based disciplines able to trigger virtuous learning cycles (in particular those associated with
the assemblage, use, and trial-and-error mutual improvement of Learning Objects
(LO)s) as fostered by the European Chemistry Thematic Network (ECTN) Association (http://www.expe.ectn-assoc.org/).
Regarding dissemination and exploitation of results the communication activities they will be divided in internal (within the molecular science community) and
external (with potential stakeholders). The internal communication will aim at reinforcing cooperation among the community to promote effective synergies. The key
to accomplish this goal will be running communication channels among all parties:
project partners, user communities, facility and resource providers. The main internal
communication channel will be the project website and regular online project, work
package, and use-case meetings. The project will also use traditional communication
channels such as the ECTN newsletter, published quarterly, the VIRT&L-COMM
open access journal to present the RI and use-case achievements. The external communication will focus on disseminating success stories to potential new stakeholders,
such as user communities, facility and resource providers, industry partners etc. to
raise their awareness about the RI. This will be accomplished through demonstrations, presentations, and publishing in scientific journals. Attending events will also
play an important role in outreach activities to new stakeholders. To promote the RI
and train its prospective users the project will elaborate a dissemination and training
plan to be run in parallel with the usual activities of the project partners (courses, conferences, summer schools, training events, etc.). These activities will be focused also
on multidisciplinary research, technology transfer between academia and industry.
Regarding dissemination events, a regular annual workshop will be organized at
the Computational Chemistry Conference to raise awareness of the chemistry community about the RI involving facility and technology providers, research and SME
partners. The project partners will also present the RI at other chemistry conferences
and EGI, EUDAT and PRACE events. They will outline the RI itself, how to use it
(focusing on the collaborative activities supported by the RI), and how to extend it.
Particular attention will be devoted to the data management highlighting how to use
different data formats, how to use metadata and provenance. The project partners
will present and demonstrate the use-cases. The project partners will also approach
researchers from inside and outside the chemistry community to identify further
prospective use-cases to be ported to the RI. Training events. ECTN, Master-UP, and
Polymechanon will organize a summer school in every project year on how to use the
RI (involving research facilities and e-infrastructure resources providers) for junior
researchers and Ph.D. of the Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling
(TCCM) ITN JDP. ECTN will define specific learning objectives (LO) for each summer school using the GLOREP archives. ECTNs, Master-UPs, and Polymechanons
expertise will guarantee that not only researchers will benefit from training events
but also Ph.D. students and SME employees thanks to the use of multimedia technologies.
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nologies. At this level self-learning and self-assessing services are considered for
both the specific CMMST environment training and the more general educational
endeavors of the community for molecular science and technologies-based disciplines able to trigger virtuous learning cycles (in particular those associated with
the assemblage, use, and trial-and-error mutual improvement of Learning Objects
(LO)s) as fostered by the European Chemistry Thematic Network (ECTN) Association (http://www.expe.ectn-assoc.org/).
Regarding dissemination and exploitation of results the communication activities they will be divided in internal (within the molecular science community) and
external (with potential stakeholders). The internal communication will aim at reinforcing cooperation among the community to promote effective synergies. The key
to accomplish this goal will be running communication channels among all parties:
project partners, user communities, facility and resource providers. The main internal
communication channel will be the project website and regular online project, work
package, and use-case meetings. The project will also use traditional communication
channels such as the ECTN newsletter, published quarterly, the VIRT&L-COMM
open access journal to present the RI and use-case achievements. The external communication will focus on disseminating success stories to potential new stakeholders,
such as user communities, facility and resource providers, industry partners etc. to
raise their awareness about the RI. This will be accomplished through demonstrations, presentations, and publishing in scientific journals. Attending events will also
play an important role in outreach activities to new stakeholders. To promote the RI
and train its prospective users the project will elaborate a dissemination and training
plan to be run in parallel with the usual activities of the project partners (courses, conferences, summer schools, training events, etc.). These activities will be focused also
on multidisciplinary research, technology transfer between academia and industry.
Regarding dissemination events, a regular annual workshop will be organized at
the Computational Chemistry Conference to raise awareness of the chemistry community about the RI involving facility and technology providers, research and SME
partners. The project partners will also present the RI at other chemistry conferences
and EGI, EUDAT and PRACE events. They will outline the RI itself, how to use it
(focusing on the collaborative activities supported by the RI), and how to extend it.
Particular attention will be devoted to the data management highlighting how to use
different data formats, how to use metadata and provenance. The project partners
will present and demonstrate the use-cases. The project partners will also approach
researchers from inside and outside the chemistry community to identify further
prospective use-cases to be ported to the RI. Training events. ECTN, Master-UP, and
Polymechanon will organize a summer school in every project year on how to use the
RI (involving research facilities and e-infrastructure resources providers) for junior
researchers and Ph.D. of the Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling
(TCCM) ITN JDP. ECTN will define specific learning objectives (LO) for each summer school using the GLOREP archives. ECTNs, Master-UPs, and Polymechanons
expertise will guarantee that not only researchers will benefit from training events
but also Ph.D. students and SME employees thanks to the use of multimedia technologies.