General Information on ITaaU Workshops

We are running several types of workshops for the ITaaU Network: Community Scale Workshop / Conference, Facilitated Focussed Workshops and Sandpits, International Best Practice Exchange Workshops.

Community Scale Workshops
Following on the successful first workshop for the network organised by the DE Theme, there will be a similar major workshops / ITaaU Conference at the start and Year 2 and Year 3. This will be complemented by a final conference and media event at the end of the funding period to round up the Network+ programme.

Facilitated Focussed Workshops
There will be a series of smaller more focussed workshops, with typically 20 attendees. In subsequent years, the workshop discussion areas will be modified in the light of the larger workshops described in the preceding section. The plan is for at least 3 such workshops a year.

Sandpits
Some of the workshops will be more focussed around possible Pilot Project funding and will take the form of a small scale sandpit, with some of the pilot project funding reserved for ideas generated at or from the Sandpit.

International Best Practice Networking Workshops
We aim to set up a number of small international workshops & working groups to leverage international best practice (both to acquire and disseminate UK best practice) and in particular build on existing EPSRC links with India, China and Brazil as well as with EU partners and the USA Cyberinfrastructure projects. In all cases we plan to reach across academia and industry in these workshops.