<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><img src="http://www.codata.org/uploads/images/beijing_big_data_header.png" alt="" width="600" height="154" style="margin: 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: middle;" class=""><br class="">9-20 September 2019, Beijing, China</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><br class=""></strong></em></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">Deadline for Applications, 30 May 2019</strong></em><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""> </strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">Further information and application form: <a href="http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(59, 102, 60);" class="">http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1</a></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">Information:</strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">CODATA China and the Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences are organizing an international training workshop on "Scientific Big Data and Machine Learning" in Beijing from 9-20 September 2019. Supported by CODATA, CODATA China has successfully held similar training workshops since 2012 and this is the 5th event in the series. The training course is funded by the Chinese Academy of Science and qualified applicants will receive full support for travel to Beijing as well as their subsistence and accommodation when at the workshop.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><br class="">Participants in the Training Workshop will also attend the CODATA 2019 Beijing Conference: Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms. Applicants are encouraged also to submit a paper or poster for the conference.<br class=""><br class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">The deadline for applications is 11:59 pm CST (UTC+8) on 30 May.</strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">Objective:</strong><br class="">Due to advances in information technology, we are witnessing an explosion in digital data through all forms of human activity: much of this data can also contribute to the production of knowledge for all domains of enquiry and across domains, as well as providing essential information for decision-making in response to global challenges such as sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, climate change, the growth of cities, the maintenance of biodiversity etc., etc. In order to meet the many global challenges and to take advantage of the opportunities of the data revolution, it is imperative to develop global skills and capacity in the science of data.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><br class="">The mission of CODATA, the Committee on Data of the International Science Council, is to support the advancement of science as a global public good by promoting improved research data management and use, and by advancing data science and the enhanced exploitation of data in all areas of scientific research. Building data science capacity in countries with developing and emerging economies (in part through promoting technical training in data science, in data management and in the implications of the data revolution for science) is an important part of CODATA’s strategy.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><br class="">The training program offered aims to engage participants with a number of facets of data science and data management in the age of the data revolution and Big Data. Topics include, but are not limited to:</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; list-style: none;" class=""><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 19px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; background-image: url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); line-height: 26px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;" class=""></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 19px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; background-image: url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); line-height: 26px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;" class="">Basic data science skills (e.g. Introduction to data infrastructures in CAS, data carpentry, data management plan)</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 19px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; background-image: url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); line-height: 26px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;" class="">Machine learning and data driven scientific discovery</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 19px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; background-image: url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); line-height: 26px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;" class="">Scientific data policies, good practices, norms, specifications and standards</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 19px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; background-image: url("http://www.codata.org/uploads/Main/list_white_box_blue_arrow.png"); line-height: 26px; background-position: 0% 7px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;" class="">Selected disciplinary scientific data stewardship exemplars (e.g. geoscience, biology, genomics, astronomy, etc)</li></ul><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""> </div>A number of activities will be organized involving elite Chinese scientists, in order to promote knowledge sharing and to develop opportunities for future exchanges and collaboration. Participants will benefit also from visits to a number of leading research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). During these visits, participants will have the opportunity to learn from the scientific approach, management expertise, knowledge development and practical application which characterize activities at CAS institutes working at the frontiers of research. Furthermore, the program will promote interaction and exchange of knowledge between experts and participants and among participants who will benefit greatly from exchanges with colleagues for a variety of academic and national backgrounds.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">How to Apply:</strong> </div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Apply at <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><a href="http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70005" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(59, 102, 60);" class="">http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70005</a></strong> to complete the online form and to submit the necessary support documents. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">The deadline is 23:59 CST (UTC+8) on 30 May.</strong><br class=""> <br class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">You will be asked to complete an application form with personal information and to submit supporting document.</strong> Once you have created an account and entered the personal information you will need to click on [Submission] to access the page to upload your supporting document.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">The supporting document should comprise your CV, a personal statement (of no more than one side) and references combined as a single PDF file (maximum volume 20MB).</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><br class="">The personal statement should describe your interests and why you want to do the Training Workshop. You should answer these questions:<br class=""><ol style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; list-style-position: initial; line-height: 26px;" class=""><li style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">What expertise and qualities would you bring as a participant?</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">What specific topics would you like to cover and how will this help you?</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class="">How would you hope to apply the experience gained from the course in your own country? </li></ol></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Please consult <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><a href="http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70002" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(59, 102, 60);" class="">Eligibility</a></strong> and <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><a href="http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70003" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(59, 102, 60);" class="">Important Dates</a></strong></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""> </div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: "Droid Sans", sans-serif; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class="">Further information about the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><a href="http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70004" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(59, 102, 60);" class="">training programme </a></strong>and <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><a href="http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/70006" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(59, 102, 60);" class="">contact details</a></strong> is available on the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;" class=""><a href="http://ccit2019.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(59, 102, 60);" class="">Training Workshop Website</a></strong></div><div style="font-family: GillSans;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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