[DDI-users] DDI Training Opportunity Offered

[Mary Vardigan]

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
<https://training.gesis.org/?site=pDetails&child=full&pID=0xB2677F10699CDB4A87AC94EDB8F700E8&lang=en_US>
will
take place on October 12-16, 2015.



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 5-9, 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 21, 2015. The trainers -  in
consultation with the DDI Alliance Director -  will select a person for the
position and he or she will be informed by July 7.



Joachim Wackerow

Mary Vardigan

-- 
Mary Vardigan
Director, DDI Alliance
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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