[DDI-users] DDI Training Opportunity

[Mary Vardigan]

Dear DDI Community,

This is just a reminder that the deadline for applications for the DDI
trainer opportunity is June 22. Below is the full text of the invitation.

Mary

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Dear Colleagues,



For the past eight years, GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
has organized intensive five-day DDI training workshops at Schloss Dagstuhl
in Wadern, Germany. (Dagstuhl is a computer science research center that
focuses mainly on a highly acknowledged seminar series.) This year’s
training workshop <http://www.gesis.org/en/events/gesis-workshops/2014-ddi/>
will take place on October 13-17, 2014.



Joachim Wackerow (GESIS) leads the training workshop along with co-trainers
Arofan Gregory (Metadata Technology) and Wendy Thomas (Minnesota Population
Center). To plan for the workshop, Arofan and Wendy spend the week before
the workshop in Mannheim (one of the two GESIS locations) where the three
trainers prepare the syllabus and the schedule for the upcoming workshop.
This has worked well and has been a successful model.



In an effort to diversify and supplement the pool of qualified DDI trainers
and to start to build the next generation of instructors, this year GESIS
together with the Dagstuhl trainers is offering a "train the trainer"
opportunity, funded by the DDI Alliance. This will enable a new trainer to
attend the preparation week in Mannheim and the workshop at Dagstuhl. The
goal is that this person could then conduct similar training in the future
either alone or with others.



The Alliance will fund the cost of the new trainer's travel, accommodation,
and food for two weeks, and will provide a stipend of Euro 1000.



We are looking for a highly motivated individual who has an interest in DDI
and in training others in its use. This person will need to be available
for the full two weeks (Week 1 in Mannheim, October 6-10, and Week 2 at
Dagstuhl).



To apply for this opportunity, please send a letter of interest, a resume
or set of qualifications, and a vision for future DDI training to the DDI
Alliance Director <vardigan at umich.edu> by June 22, 2014. The trainers will
select a person for the position and he or she will be informed by July 7.



Joachim Wackerow

Mary Vardigan


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Mary Vardigan
Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR)
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone: 734-615-7908
Fax: 734-647-8200
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