WP1 T5 Human Capital Development - GLAD

Welcome to GÉANT Learning and Development (GLAD). In these pages you can find out more about our learning programmes for GÉANT Project participants, employees and the wider Research & Education communities.

About GLAD

GÉANT Learning & Development team (GLAD) is tasked with developing the skills and experience of GÉANT Project contributors. Each year, GLAD offers training programmes on diverse topics - from network security and threat identification through to presentation and public speaking skills. Wherever possible, training is extended to the whole GÉANT community so as to enrich the pool of talented contributors. Furthermore, the Future Talent Programme and Trust & Identity Mentoring (TIM) programmes foster the skills of the next generation.

In addition to its training programmes, GLAD offers a growing portfolio of online learning through its portal, eAcademy. In all these ways, GLAD contributes to GÉANT’s mission to advance European research, education and innovation.

2023 Workplan

Here is the current schedule of Project training activities scheduled in for 2023. As more information, access to material and registration dates become available links will be provided here.  

You can also find more information at community.geant.org/learning

August

Deadline for Trust and Identity Mentoring programme (TIM) | 25 August 2023

The Trust and Identity Incubator Mentoring programme (TIM) is an exciting initiative that brings together ambitious young minds and industry experts to develop new ideas in the area of Trust and Identity.

Find out more about the Trust & Identity Mentoring (TIM) Programme here.

September

School of Software Engineering Training (SSE2023) | 19 – 21 September 2023

For software development enthusiasts involved in the GN5-1 Project, the ongoing School of Software Engineering training events present an exciting opportunity to enhance the quality of their products. The GN5-1-WP9-T2 is back for 2023 with a training event dedicated to ‘Deploying scalable applications in Kubernetes based environments’. You can register for this event here.

October

Secure Coding Training (SCT) | October 25th-27th (Poznan)

This will take place over three days in October in Poznan, Poland.

The objectives of this years course are: 

• To populate standards concerning security of Web applications
• To promote Python secure programming practices
• To combine different approaches related with cybersecurity (CI/CD processes, secure programming, security testing) in order to produce hacker-proof applications.

You can find more information on the agenda and register to attend this event here.

2023 Training Events

Here you will find a table of training events that have taken place so far this year. If you would like more information on these activities that have taken place please contact glad@geant.org.