<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.) <a href="http://www.gesis.org/en/events/gesis-workshops/2014-ddi/">This year’s training workshop</a> will take
place on <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">October 13-17, 2014</span></span>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></p><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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, <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">October 6-10</span></span>, and Week 2 at Dagstuhl). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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
<a href="mailto:vardigan@umich.edu"> DDI Alliance Director</a> by <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">June 22, 2014</span></span>. The trainers will select a person for the position and he or she will be informed by <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">July 7</span></span>. <br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Joachim Wackerow</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mary Vardigan<br></span></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mary Vardigan<br>Assistant Director, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)<br>
P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106<br>Phone: 734-615-7908<br>Fax: 734-647-8200<br>
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