Hayley Evers-King (PML, Copernicus

Ocean Training Service),Christine Träger-Chatterjee

EUMETSAT‘s training on Marine Meteorology and OceanApplications

• Ocean training events including:

• 2 week courses (one week online, one week in class)

• Unstructured, participant-led learning approaches.

• Collaborative training events at conferences

• New types of activity: youtube, MOOCs, Hackathons, TEDx. code repositories (jupyter, SNAP).

• Copernicus Expert Exchange.

Copernicus Marine Training

• 2016: 2 weeks online phase + 1 week classroomClassroom: Regional Training Center, South African Weather ServiceCourse language: English, collaboration with NOAA

• 2017: 2 weeks online phase + 1 week classroomClassroom: Direction de la Météorologie Nationale, MoroccoCourse language: French, collaboration with Météo France

• 2018: 3 weeks online phase, closed last FridayClassroom: December 2018, Regional Training Center, South African WeatherServiceCourse language: English, collaboration with NOAA

• 2019: 3 weeks online phaseClassroom: probably Direction de la Météorologie Nationale, MoroccoCourse language: French, collaboration with Météo France

• To be continued ….

Recent & upcoming Marine Meteorology Training in Africa

• 2017: „Using the Copernicus Marine Data for Operational Applications - Africa“1 week online + 1 week classroomClassroom: University of Ghana as one of the GMES&Africa entities

• Expert Exchange Workshop for African GMES Marine Centers 13 – 15 November 2018, Darmstadt

• Exchange of knowledge and practice, aiming at a design of training to the needs ofthese centers.

• Targeted to GMES&Africa Marine Centers, by invitation

Recent Ocean Application Training Courses - Africa

• Short trainings (1 – 2 days) attached to various scientificmeetings and events of the Ocean Community

• Sponsoring for early carreer scientists to participate in scientific events

• Events with attached trainings / sponsoring:• IOCS Meeting, Lisbon, May 2017

• Ocean Optics Conference

• GHRSST science team meeting

• GODAE Ocean View summer school

• SAFARI meeting

• IOCCG summer lecture series

• ……

Short trainings and supported events 2018

Collaborative Expert Exchange

• Currently evaluating first round of applications

Future events Schedule

African applications will be welcomed for international community events and Ocean Apps 6 –likely to be held next November

• Collaborating with GMES&Africa

• Are there key events that would benefit from training support?

• Specific training needs with regards to certain tools (e.g. python, DIAS).

• Common concepts that new users find challenging (to form tutorials)?

• Resources that would help with your own training (e.g. University courses etc).

How can we support the African User community?