So yeah, welcome to this webinar on what's on at the EGU Journal Assembly. My name is Simon Clark, I'm the program coordinator for EGU. Today's webinar will provide insight into the assembly's organization, how to engage with key tools like the virtual conference center and the public network, the events organized by and for and a career scientists events from network of short courses, and finally what opportunities that are for researchers to engage with and influence policy. Our three speakers today is Peter van der Beek, EGU program committee chair, Anita de Chiara, Union level ECS representative, and Chloe Hill, EGU policy officer. So, to begin, can we start with Peter? Let's take it away. Okay. Thank you Simon and welcome everybody. Thanks for joining in. I will share my screen. And so I'll just give you a little bit of background on EGU 22, which is, which will be EGU's first hybrid general assembly. And what I'd like to do is maybe just discuss a little bit first some of the planning and organizing that went into this event and the challenges but also some of the opportunities that were related to that. I'll give you some key numbers and features of the conference, and then just some aspects and tips on attending and networking, whether you are an onsite or an online participant in this year's general assembly. So if we just go back a little bit to the beginning of this adventure, our initial plan after the EGU 21 last year's completely virtual general assembly was to have a nearly let's say classical onsite conference with Oral, Pico and poster sessions as you were used to in previous general assemblies at EGU. And the plan was for the Pico sessions to be run as VPicos and to be available in hybrid format. So that would have been in our initial plan, the extent of the hybrid format for this year's general assembly. That decision was made based on several reasons. First of all, there appear to be a very strong preference for an in person conference in the feedback that we received after VEG 21. And also there was a certain hesitation to develop a full hybrid format to hastily given the logistics and the basically the constraints, the logistics and the personnel constraints that EGU has and was facing. And we'd rather develop something less ambitious, but which we were sure would work, then go to ambitions and have the risk of malfunctioning. And probably there might also have been this was all happening last summer, maybe a somewhat optimistic assessment of how the pandemic would develop in the months that are now behind us. So, what happened then towards the end of the year, the end of last year and early this year obviously we had the consecutive delta and Omicron waves. And that led to several things. First of all, a clear apprehension in the community about intending in person conferences given the pandemic conditions of last winter, but also a rapidly evolving landscape of restrictions that were put in place in particular in Austria and Vienna and we saw several versions of the 2G or 3G rules so rules on being vaccinated tested or combinations of vaccinated and tested in order to be able to attend large scale events such as the general assembly. And importantly, at some point also quite significant event size limitations were put in place. So we were seeing the outlook on a successful in person part of the general assembly, quite difficult. So, early this year, we then decided to take some drastic steps to postpone each year 22 from its initial foreseen date in early April to next week in late May, and also to change the format of the meeting and the new concept was to propose a format that we call short oral presentations and to make the meeting fully hybrid. The reason for that was that it allowed de risking the meeting hygiene plan, because the movement of large groups of people within either because or poster sessions was deemed a quite a big hygiene risk health risk. And also that obviously this single format allowed the meeting to become fully hybrid and thereby improve the accessibility and the inclusion for those participants who were not able or willing to attend in person. So, so that's how we've moved forward and this is the current state so this just shows what to expect at the meeting in number in terms of participants. So we currently have 7,280 registered onsite participants and that is pretty much a final number because the onsite registrations are closed and that's also due to the, to the hygiene plan that we've put in place we need to know how many people we, we have onsite and so we cannot keep the registrations open until the last minute and onsite participants are coming from 88 countries. And we currently have about 4,400 virtual registrations and that number is still going up because virtual registrations will be possible until throughout the meeting. And they are coming currently from 107 countries. As you see the, the makeup of the two groups is fairly similar between regular participants PhD candidates, retired medalists and undergraduate MSc students the only clear difference is the larger distribution of undergraduate and MSc students in the virtual attendees and the reason for that is that, like last year, we have a virtual registration fee waiver for those participants, as we have a virtual registration fee waiver for scientists from lower and lower middle income countries. These, the virtual participants will be able to engage with the General Assembly, again through the virtual conference center so like last year it's very much based on last year's design. Except that all the scientific sessions will be run as zoom sessions. And so you will again have the, the possibility to go to the scientific sessions or the union symposia and great debates the medal and award lecture simply by clicking on these doors and going into these virtual lecture halls. And so there will be similarly again, possibilities for online networking for visiting some of the artists in residence for visiting the short courses town halls plinter meetings jobs and career center, etc. So basically, pretty much the whole spectrum of activities at that are available on site will also be available online for the virtual participants. Some details of what will be happening and the schedule so we have currently about 12,600 aspects in the program, which is a small number is slightly smaller than in than last year. And these will be presented in 777 active sessions, of which 614 are let's say the disciplinary science sections the short oral sessions. We have 54 short courses 35 medal and award lectures, 10 Union wide sessions union symposia and great debates. We currently have 65 networking and community events that excludes the pop ups and I'll come back to the pop up networking events in a little bit. There will be town hall meetings, side events, splinter meetings, etc, etc. What's your use to from an EU general assembly. There will also be a short plenary on the 23rd of May at noon, and the medal and award celebration is back and that will happen on the 25th of May at the end of the afternoon and you will find all of these in the in the general assembly program online. So what can you do to prepare and some of the features of the platform on which the that supports the conference both on site and and online. The first thing to do is upload your display materials. And when you do that you can choose if you allow commenting on these, which allows a scientific discussion beyond what would happen in response to your short oral. You can choose to make these materials open access or restricted access if you choose to make them open access they will be archived in each use fear. At the end of the conference and will be available as open access materials, basically perpetually. And so how to do that well very simply if you go to your abstracts management page so I'm just showing an example for one of mine here. You will see here that you can just by simply clicking this button you can upload the display material and note that that is different from what we call the live presentation, which is the material that you will use to support your short oral presentation. The other thing that we asked you to do in advance is to indicate your presentation format. So whether you aim to present either in person or virtual and again that is very simply done from your abstract management page page by clicking this real button here. And again you can also upload your presentation through this page and remember please to upload the slides for your short oral presentation at least 24 hours in advance to your session. You can obviously already prepare your personal program and that is something I would really encourage you to do so that you have an ID there is so much going on during this each week next week that if you are prepared you will have a better experience and be more effective in getting the most out of the of the meeting and you can do that in advance by preparing your personal program for the week. And you can also set up your networker by fitting in your profile your profile information. Decide what you want others to see. You can add people from your network using their email address. And you can then start chats or meet on other platforms with your online connections at any time and obviously also in the in person meeting set up in person meetings with your colleagues if you wish. And so we introduced last year. What we call pop up networking events which are informal and spontaneous networking events. They were actually happening beforehand but last year, given that it was a virtual meeting we needed to have a platform on which we were able to organize these and we've decided to perpetuate that platform. Also in a hybrid session in a hybrid meeting and so that allows programming on site off site or virtual networking events during the meeting. And so you can check the public networking program, which is part of the meeting program which you will find on the website. And I'm just showing you an example here so you can filter these by tags, and then they are just indicated by day and so you can see, for instance, this is an off site networking events that is going to be happening in the stock park. And here on Monday you have an onsite networking event in the networking zone that we defined. And then finally here you have a virtual networking event that will be available online. Right, so you can scroll through these you can see what categories you're interested in. And I would strongly encourage you to check out these these pop up networking events. You can schedule your own pop up networking event and you can do this very simply directly from the EU 22 landing page so from the general assembly landing page. And if you go to that page you will just simply find this button here that allows you to directly schedule a networking event whether you want that to be onsite in the Austria center off site somewhere else in Vienna, or online. So just some of the features and possibilities. Thank you for your attention for this short presentation. I very much hope to see all of you, either onsite in Vienna or online next week, and I'm obviously open to questions. So, thank you very much. Next, Anita, could you discuss your perspective on UCS events. Yes, thanks Simon. So hi all I'm Anita dichiara Union level early career scientists representative. And I have here a short overview of some of the activities offered. So I'm a career scientist. Some of them also organized by a career scientist. And the, so, and is in this short lineup. I also like to give some tips on how to get involved. And the definition for you, what is a record scientist is a PhD candidate a student of practical scientists will receive the highest certificate within the past seven years. The seven years period can be extended to include periods that scientists were not working in science because of several reasons say caring responsibilities parental responsibilities, disabilities illnesses community obligations national service. So UCS, their career scientists are more or less more than 50% of the new membership as you saw also on the on the on Peter's slides and we are part of the organizations. And reach your ECS representative for your division. And there are of course 22 of them as the divisions. And some in some divisions, the representatives also lead a group of people taking care of the social media or writing blogs and organizing other activities across the year, like campfires and webinars. And also a working group balance working group jobs and careers working group connectivity and pride. And this, sorry, these working groups also of course organize set of activities for engaging with the early career community during the general assembly upcoming. This is the first time you attend the individual assembly. There are a series of a webinar already available that Simon edited and you are welcome to check on the YouTube page recommend you do that they are very well done. And that I add I'm adding you some career code you free to scan some example. There is say for instance, the blog and a webinar for first time you're convening a new session. And, and so you can check that out. I would also reiterate that it will be really useful this year to organize your program in advance, because there are several activities and this is, I think it's a good advice for trying not to miss what's going on what you're, what you're participating in the general assembly for to engage with the community not only to present the your science, which we very much looking forward, but also to connect with the community and to be honest after two years online. I really look forward to tools to be in person. And if you are participating online, you should not be excluded there are a series of activities as well for you. I would also recommend if you're coming in person to download them up of the venue as a first time. It could be a little bit overwhelming finding your way around the Vienna Center. To have opened your, your program tool to set there is some union wide level and events, and that's Peter already mentioned, and I would like to go very quickly into a slate explaining some of them. Of course, beyond your synthetic sessions. And so, I would like to say, what is say a union symposium they would cover general topics and I like to give some real examples like Chloe's Chloe Hill. There is a union symposium number two, which is a Monday on the role of geosciences in preserving the study by diversity. She will probably explain better than me on this. And say on Tuesday, there is a union symposium future of geosciences conferences which is timely and there are others so I welcome you to check those. There are a set of great debates that are really interesting. And one is ECS led, and it's own fixed fixed term contracts are they opportunity or exploitation. And you can you can scan the code and not that your program. And there are some other lectures that is really a great moment to, to see which, which your fellows ECS are presenting and, and get informed also on how you can get more engaged on that aspect. And there are, of course, one is yes, a word that they use the union level, but also your division has as a medal lectures for ACS from ECS that won the award the last year. Short courses are the format of this course is not like a scientific session. It's, it's, it's a course is in it can be organized in different formats, and in say, in a more interactive form as a panel discussion or, or a set of speakers and then it's time for question and answers at the end of session during the usually quite interactive fun, and some are addressed for everyone this, regardless, the division. And for instance, there is a Monday, how to navigate EU tips and tricks, and I added the QR code. So you can add that. And this is for not only early career scientists but it's for everybody. And I give a short course on Tuesday, how to get involved with you. It is for everyone but tailored more towards early career scientists. These are all hybrid events so that you can also attend online. So that's also interesting. I'll give you some example for instance how to build and grow your scientific network network. It's a Monday game and there is some other set of other two short courses organized by the work life balance group. And for instance, this one is scared of getting a presentation is I think it's timely seen the new format of the of the of the general assembly this year where there are no posters and so there's going to be some tip and tricks and some speakers talking about several aspects. And you can find here again the QR code. And there is another short course which is also interesting is it meets the EU journal editors. And you can have the QR code there and it's on Tuesday again. And it's co organized so it's really across divisions. We're going to participate in that as well. There are several that are organized for your divisions. You, you're welcome to, to go more of, say, check for a division level but say small you want to one geodesy one or one geology one or one and more, many more. They are also networking events. And the editor said, there are networking events and pop up networking events, networking events are marked as net in the program. And for instance, there is the first time attendees on Monday, the business lounge. And I just put here a map of where this event is with the metro session reference and in the red but we said business and you can do this exercise for the all the other sessions and events you can see some room numbers in this map. And you see the colors. So if you were to download the map each floor of the color. And so you can be a, and then close to each event you see the room number and the color, if you're an in person. And that's, I think is a nice thing to know. And networking also early career networking reception. I think you need to register for that. And check all the description is there online and the core code is there. There is the area scientists forum. It's this is on Thursday. And it's a time where you welcome to share feedback and hear more about the, the early career from from the area scientists representatives and from myself. And the, and the, and the, and the upcoming record scientist representative Jenny Turton. And it's going to be a good time for you to also, you know, share your ideas and meet us. So the pop up events are more of a spontaneous events. And so while you can add these networking events to your program with the little star yellow star is that we can add them with your personal calendar, or as you can, there is a button you can add some meetings personal meetings to your personal program. And as Peter already showed there are some that are organized for division so you, I hope you did participate already to last year. Thank you, but there were some area scientists led and on the division base. And so you can go and check for your division what's what's on. It could be a dinner it could be a networking online. It could be a meeting in the park a picnic. You're welcome to scroll down the menu to for looking for them in this case for instance, in the first slide, the first line is from the gdps and some division together. On one side, the Vienna, outside the Vienna Center off site. There are others that are in there are inside the Vienna Center, and others that are online. And so on Monday, on Monday, there are, there are, there are several events, and as I show you this, say, HS events and some, some events organized by the, by the work life balance group. On Tuesday on the same line, there's move stretch and lunch in the park. And online site of all sites, networking picnic for ST divisions area scientists. I would not have the time to list them all I out like plus three or plus five but the natural pop up in networking event is that you can go ahead and book and organize your one so these numbers will likely be greater than the, the numbers say for instance, eight for for the two days. On Thursday there is picnic lunch and there is also time for judges division plus other four events. As Peter said, you can schedule your own you just need to provide the event title, a description for the event where you cannot if it's online say, for more information maybe a zoom link or in whichever class we wish to do to organize that. You can select event tags so if the event is related to policy, health, health and wellness, or to earlier scientists if it's a social event, or if it's an EDI event. And schedule and you can just hit the button and it's gonna be in the program you can modify it as soon as you want. And for, and sorry, and for another tip tip I would like to give is to also come and check in person. There is going to be an EDI booth and a EGU booth where is going to be staffed and people out there to, to meet you and talk about topics that are dear to you. And so it's a nice time to, to, you know, have a chat, what you care about and or get more information on what's going on. And I would like to, on this purpose I would like also to suggest you check also all the EOS events that that regards other topics that may look unrelated to, to, to your science but still very important. And with this I would like to say goodbye and hope to see you soon online or in person. Thank you. Thank you Anita. To move on to our final speaker today, which is Kerry Hill, who's here to discuss, discuss policy related events and opportunities at the Digital Assembly next week. Sorry to unmute myself. So I think I've already started sharing my screen. Can you say that okay. Yeah, I can see it fine. Amazing. Thank you. So today I am going to talking about the different science of policy sessions and activities that you can engage with during EGU 22. As the EGU policy manager, I'm responsible for overseeing these and creating different sessions each year. We have had these science policy sessions now for over seven years the ones that have been organized by the EGU office but of policy sessions have happened throughout the years at the Digital Assembly and it's because policy is a really relevant topic to science. For example, scientists can contribute a lot to the policymaking process by sharing relevant information in a way that policymakers can understand and use. And on the flip side of that we also have policy for science, which is related to research funding and that sort of thing. So it is a very important topic. And I'm going to be talking about the different ways you can engage with it at the General Assembly this year. So things I'm going to be talking about today are the different sessions that expand your knowledge about science policy and how you can engage with policymaking. There are two new that will exist both online and in person at the General Assembly to actually meet these policymakers and those who are working on the interface of science and policy. And then I'll also mention some of the activities that you've engaged with after EGU 22 has finished. And these are activities you might want to start engaging with during the week of EGU 22 and then continue to engage with after that. The science and policy sessions at EGU 22 are quite broad. There's a lot of different types and they all cover different topics. So the short courses as Anita talked about in her presentation, give practical tips about how you can more effectively engage with policymaking process and share your expertise as a scientist. So we do these every year and every year they do have a slightly different focus. This year we're really lucky to actually have some experts coming to the General Assembly to talk about their role in the science policy interface, and also some of the research that they've put together on this about how scientists can best engage. So the role of scientific institutions in policymaking is actually going to be run by Lena Top, who is a member of the EGU's Science and Policy Working Group, which is also working within the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. And they've recently put together a framework of all the different competencies and skills that scientific institutions can build collectively to make them more effective at getting involved in policymaking. So it's not just one sort of skills that one individual can build, but things you can do collectively to improve your ability to engage with these policymakers and to have an impact in the policymaking process. So that's going to be a really, really exciting session. It's going to be at 8.30 on Wednesday morning, so quite early, but it will be worth it. In that session we'll also have Elias Grampus, who is working within the European Parliament's Intergroups to comment on some of those skills and how he personally either uses them or finds them useful when scientists use them. So a couple of experts there. The other short course that I'm going to be highlighting today is how to influence policy through engaging with parliaments. So this will also be held on the Wednesday in the afternoon. And again, we also have some experts coming in to talk about this. So we have someone coming in from the UK's Knowledge Exchange units, which works within the UK Parliament to talk about their work. We have someone from Stoa, which is the works within the Parliament of the EU as well. And then someone coming in from the Austrian side. So there are actually some experts who are working within these processes to share their top tips with you about how you as a scientist can start engaging more effectively. The union-wide sessions that Anita also mentioned are some other great examples of science, the policy, and actually the practical uses of science policy. So not so much focusing on skills, but very much focusing on the big issues, the big topics, and how science can be integrated into those big decisions that policymakers have to make. So the role of geosciences in preserving and restoring biodiversity is a big one. And this one is going to be on the Monday, and I think it's starting at 1.20. And it had a fantastic lineup of speakers, a very, very exciting panel. We had some people coming from the European Commission. We have some people working within these processes who are really going to explain the biodiversity policy landscape and where scientists fit into that. So hopefully after listening to or engaging with that union symposia, you can walk away and have a bit more of an understanding about how you as a scientist can get involved in that landscape as well. The other one listed here is on the Friday, so bookending the week. And it's all about climate change and what it means for the earth science community. So again, we'll have a mixed panel there. It's very much going to be focusing on the practical aspects of what scientists can be doing. And the last thing I've listed here is all of the different policy-related scientific sessions. So these are the sessions that you would have submitted an abstract to, for example. We do have some that are specifically focusing on policy this year as well. Now, if you want an overarching list of all of these different sessions and more, I will actually drop a link into the chat that gives you an overview of the sessions that I think are most policy relevant that will be happening throughout EU 22. So I'll put that into the chat for anyone who is listening to this live. And maybe Simon also wants to add it to the YouTube description once he uploads it onto YouTube. Great. So it's not just science and policy sessions that you can get involved with during EU 22. We also have a range of activities. And I think this is something that's really important now that we are excited to come out of COVID, starting to have a hybrid session, which is very exciting like Peter talked about. So we have the first one I have here is the Ask a Policy Expert Program. Now, if you are listening to this live, please go and apply for this today because the deadline is at midnight. Once you submit your questions or your specific policy questions, what exactly do you want to know? If you could talk to someone who is working on the science for policy interface, what would you ask them? Ask these questions and then I will pair you with someone who I think is able to answer them or at least try to answer them and talk to you. So you can either meet in person in Vienna or you can meet online if you're attending virtually. So I really do encourage you to apply for that today if you are listening to this live. The second thing here I want to list is something that obviously needed talked about as well is the ECS networking events. I'm making sure that people who are attending those sessions I mentioned on Wednesday will be at this event as well. So you might be able to talk to them about how they got involved with the science policy interface or what career steps they took. And the last one I have on the screen is actually the ECU's Science a Policy Help Desk. Now this will be every day at the ECU booth from 11 until 12. And if for some reason you didn't meet, for example, the Ask a Policy Expert deadline, which is today, did I mention that? Then you can come along to the Help Desk from 11 until 12 every single day and there will be experts there to answer your questions and to have a more general policy discussion as well. So the benefit of the Ask a Policy Expert scheme is that the people you'll be talking to already are aware of your questions and they're going to know how to answer them because they would have thought about maybe in advance. At the Science Policy Help Desk, it might not be so clear cut, but you will be able to have a discussion with someone about those. So I do encourage you to come along and even if you just want to say hi or you want to click some resources that will have there, you're more than welcome to just drop in. And the final thing I want to mention today is some of the Science a Policy activities that you can engage with post-EGU 22. So these are things we'll be highlighting throughout the week at the GA and some of them are quite new. I think that all of them are quite new, so they're very exciting. The first one is the EGU Science a Policy Hangouts. So these, if any of you listening attended our Science a Policy Happy Hour last year or the year before last, similar to that, but we're going to be holding these on a more frequent basis and they're going to be a little bit earlier in the day. They're going to be hosted every second month and we'll make sure we have some policy experts in the room or Science Policy experts in the room who can answer questions. And it'll be a way of getting to know people or meet them virtually and have a discussion with them about some of the challenges you're facing in terms of engaging policymakers or some of the opportunities that you've had. So be very informal, but they are starting in July and will be held every second Thursday, every second month on the first Thursday of the month. So they are already online if you go to the webinar's page. The second one I want to talk about here is the EGU's Biodiversity Task Force Survey. So EGU does have a biodiversity task force. Biodiversity is out the EGU's Policy Priority Area. And we also really like to get your feedback during the General Assembly if you're working in biodiversity or you think of the particular area we'd like to touch on. We do have a survey we'll be sharing during the General Assembly during specific sessions that relate to biodiversity so that you can answer a survey and highlight the areas that you think are important. The other one, the next one we have is the EGU's Science Policy Pairing Scheme, which will be open. I hope the application period will be open by next week. So this is where you will be paired with a member of the European Parliament and you'll be working with them for a week inside the Parliament. So this is something the EGU has done for the last couple of years. It was put on hold last year as a result of COVID and we will be restarting it this year. And we are hoping to have two pairs this year paired with two different MEPs. There's also the EGU's Science Policy Events, which will be held in the Parliament in late September. So this will focus on biodiversity and it is open for everyone to attend, but it will be in Brussels and it will be in person. So you can find out more about this at the General Assembly next week. And finally, if you want to hear more about these opportunities, you can sign up for the EGU's Science Policy Newsletter, which is published every month with the latest opportunities and news about policy. So that is all I have for you today, but if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. My email is policy at egu.eu. And yeah, happy to answer any questions that you have now or if you're watching this on YouTube, maybe you can put them in the chat down below, comment section down below. Thanks, Simon. Excellent. Thank you so much. Just some time for a few questions. Before I do, I just want to highlight the fact that if you're engaging with EGU online, you can do so by using our hashtags, which is hashtag EGU22, hashtag VEGU22 or hashtag EGU underscore, followed by your division name. Our solution note about that is a mentor and mentee scheme. If those who are involved should consider attending the first time I attend these meetings, which is an informal drop-in event on a meeting Monday, which you can drop in at any time during that session to meet with your mentor. Yeah, so to move on to some questions. This is a few of the ones I've had in. As we finish with policy, let's start with policy. Okay, so can anyone attend these policy sessions even if they have no experience? Absolutely. Yeah, so I would say we basically, especially during the short courses, we really do start from the ground level. We do build up from that quite quickly. So if you have attended policy sessions before or you already have a good base knowledge about science or policy, you won't get bored. You will be learning new things. But the first five or 10 minutes of every session is definitely more of an introduction to make sure that everyone is on the same page, has the same level of knowledge about what science policy is that they need. And there's always this space at the end of every session that we hold that relates to policy for questions. And yeah, it's really important, I think, to have that time. And if you do want to know more after a session has finished, we always, you're always welcome to drop by the help desk from 11 to 12 every day and have further discussions. And yeah, everyone is welcome. And I think it depends where your interests are that, for example, if you are working on climate change or biodiversity, if you are at Union's symposia and Great Debate, highly recommended. And that really is a topic I think that everyone can relate to on some level. Excellent. So pretty much any session, if you have any session, everyone should come all the time. Yes. There's one about being an ECS attendee who might want to join with ECS division teams, perhaps get more involved with what's going on at EGU. How can ECS members attending the assembly perhaps do this do so, how can they get more involved with what the ECS reps and their teams are doing. And the question is, it's really important because this is what we'd like to is to reach the ECS community. So there are several ways during the general assembly. I mentioned that you could find that a command you do so your networking events and division level. So if you're attending online, they will probably be an ECS networking event for your division. Some of them may be outside of the week of the general assembly, but most of them are during. You can check that in the program. And there is also network events in person. You can you can check the program for that. And for the rest of the activities you can you can find it can contact either myself as union level via email anytime you want. And we are also very active on Twitter, on Facebook. And so you're welcome to contact us through those channels as well. And I'll be around the judge assembly. You're welcome to, you know, to introduce yourself and ask more questions, whatever you want. And also in the Egypt website, you can find the contact of your division with level representative for their liquor scientists. I encourage you to do that as well. Thank you. Thank you, Nita. Yes, so I guess the key thing is is don't be afraid to approach people. Many of the ECS reps will be there physically. You'll also be able to meet some of them at the ECS reception, which requires registration if you wish to attend on the Tuesday. And also other events as well such as the ECS forum as previously mentioned. Another question I have is, I think it's related to why I just asked is how can attendees learn more about what each of you does at the assembly. Who's best to take that one. Perhaps, Peter, do you, is that something you can have input on someone attends the assembly and perhaps would see what actually organization does beyond the scientific sessions. So, a good place to start would be the EU booth that will be in the exhibition in the exhibition area, and there will be throughout the week there will be EU representatives present at the booth so both people from the EEG office and some of the volunteers who are working as the division presidents or in the different committees so that would be an excellent place to start. There will be the a fairly short but there will be a plenary on the Monday at noon. I believe it will be in room one. So that's also a good place to get some general information on the union and on and on what is done. I would also strongly encourage people to go to the relevant division meetings, which will be held either during the week, mostly during the lunchtime slot or online, and some of the online meetings will already be running this week so check the program that's also an excellent place to start to get to better know each EU and the different activities, and don't hesitate to talk to people and to, you know, if you're interested in a particular committee or particular aspects. Talk to the relevant people and I'm sure they will be more than happy to talk to you and get you get you involved. Excellent. So again, plenty of opportunities. If you have a loss, go to the EEG booth and ask that. Yeah. Can I add something? Of course. Yeah, thank you. You're welcome to attend the short courses that are tailored to this question. So how to attend did you tip and tricks and how to get involved with you. And so this also would be a good place to to come if you're interested. Thank you. So you have time for one more question. I might as well bring us full circle to ask about policy and it's what policy experts are attending. Oh, that is a very good question. I've got to say this year we have some of the most exciting science and policy experts that we've ever had actually and that's in large part thanks to Peter and the program committee. They've opened that up for us, which has been really nice. So for example, on Monday, we will have Phillip tokens, who is the head of unit for the climate and boundaries. Director of general within the European Commission so he will actually be attending the general simply for a couple of days. They'll be speaking in the union symposia and then he also really wants to chat with some scientists and get some feedback. So who also have a splinter meeting while he's there, he'll be joining us on the help desk. And a couple of members of his team will also be at the general assembly as well. So you can actually meet with people who are working on these issues within the commission, which I think is really exciting. We'll also have great why do why he is the manager of the EU knowledge knowledge center for biodiversity, which again is working in the commission. But he will be there in person at the general assembly to discuss how scientists can get more involved in those sorts of programs. And he was also in a form of life scientists. So he's also an EU member or was an EU member at some point. So he can actually really connect with scientists as well and he understands where scientists are coming from. We then have a lot of representatives from the EU science and policy working group who will be there.  But they're also people who work with policy. So if you have any questions, again, these people will be around the general assembly in person and they will also be at the EU science policy help desk. Thank you. Yeah, so some big names to do at the assembly this year. I think that's it for questions. So I'll wrap this webinar up and say thank you to our three speakers for me to talk about a diverse range of things going on at the assembly next week. Thank you for everyone attending and for watching YouTube. Otherwise, I'll see you next week.


These arts and social sciences data enhanced virtual laboratory and better known as the past devil So this brings together Because someone type in the chat if they're able to hear us Sorry Sorry about that. Okay We're getting there so 12 partners from around the country it's a national collaborative project It represents 1 million dollars in total including the co-investment and will be delivered within 2018 some of our project partners are pictured here at a one of our project workshops that we held in Melbourne and You can see the group of people involved in the logos at the bottom right of the screen there our aims include lowering barriers of entry For digital has infrastructure exploring and addressing interoperability issues between platforms for has data Working towards a more joined up landscape data curation for better reuse reproduction and republishing of research data and multi-lane skills and training and human training opportunities research practices in humanities arts and social sciences ago through a period of Change with greater as a greater availability of large-scale data and increasingly accessible digital research tools We've chosen to focus on a few areas of focused activity to demonstrate value and impact for and to researchers and We're taking advantage of community engagement aspects around the project to consult on further opportunities and extension of our work Should further infrastructure support become available I'll talk through the three areas of project activity that make up this devil The workbench environment will be an online space that will host tools and research and development opportunities in the one space It'll be a central Location to access tools to be used in transcription Text analysis and geocoding in the first instance So these three focus areas of activity we've chosen as a result of consultation Convected last year and mapping of the research challenges that were common to the areas of humanities arts and social sciences This this discipline brings together a very diverse group of researchers and when we sort of mapped out certain research practices that people within these disciplines did this was a selection of Focus points which could actually have research impact for that community were common to a large group of them In some cases the workbench environment will offer guidance to support and using existing tools in some cases The tools will be a hosted service and in the case of geocoding We're developing a chooser to aid researchers in finding the most useful geocoding resource for their need And we have conducted to date we've conducted consultation around the relevant tools And I'll talk a little bit about that later We've worked up a prototype to test existing tools and explore the delivery in online space You can see a snapshot of that there. This is a prototype which will help us go to user testing during August And gain further input on that at a recent demonstration of the eco cloud explorer from the eco science We're considering a repurposing that framework to host a future iteration of the workbench Some of you will be familiar with that because to get hard and kindly reported on that at the last tech talk The eco cloud explorer is designed as a flexible modular framework that can provide data access points for a variety of sources Hosted tools links to external tools a space for storing users own data and can host Support materials including training materials one of the other benefits is that it will Allow it integration of Jupiter notebooks and compatibility with other workspaces including GitHub This is one approach to the objective that we have of allowing users to share their own tools and workflows This is very much still an idea and this back here is literally our putting our thoughts down around it We haven't had access to that framework just yet, but we're looking forward to exploring that during August The second project activity area is the data curation framework The humanities research environment can be characterized by high-value but fragmented data tools and services Research has drawn a number of data sources many of which are hosted by different institutions And in many of which are notionally accessible being open licensed and organized according to accepted metadata scheme of Some are accessible via API's our data curation team is exploring issues around interoperability and accessibility By working through certain processes with three reference data sets in order to reduce the variables in Assessing these data curation issues with chosen to work with data sets that are open As we've determined that sensitive data while it will be a big issue for humanities researchers in the future We can't address it within the scope of this project So the reference data sets that we're working with are listed there Troves Australian government visits a set of data from the Griffith University prosecution project around the crime of figure me and historical census records from the Australian data archive What's happening is that this curation team is Subjecting these data sets to particular transformations that would be useful to researchers as a way of testing their interoperability utility I won't go into detail to What transformations are being done to which data sets, but they're being passed through named entity recognition processes Geocoding processes text analysis processes and we're recording the challenges both technical and social that we experience along the way The data curation team are presently working on a framework to help consider the various lenses through which the data curation process can be viewed Including how data is formed and alters how data flows in and out of archives and how data arises from and feeds into human research The third area of activity is the skills and training work package and The this will be delivered in a couple of different ways as standalone modules or workshops It will have some online presence in the workbench And it will be delivered as the two-day intensive train the trainer program to a small group of researchers who have teaching responsibilities This final champions program is another example of cross-devil work because it's inspired by the work It was done by the biodiversity and climate change virtual laboratory last year That project demonstrated the ability of a train the trainer model to broaden the reach of their training activities So all of this work will be accompanied by a program of community engagement Including a monthly in use letter with regular updates to the house devil Appearance at relevant conferences and we'll be continuing our series of digital humanities pathways events through the remainder of 2018 This was a model of community engagement that we initiated last year and the made up of day long Projects showcase interspersed with panel discussions and audience interaction These events were an excellent consultation forum in 2017 and we anticipate that they'll help us validate the aims and achievements of the project this year We are adding to that pathways format this year Inspired by our work with the eco science devil and starting those days with an intensive executive session Which will consult with relative community leaders and decision makers So I just wanted to talk a little bit about the consultation that we've done to date and some of the discoveries We've had through that. We yeah as we've as I've mentioned all the project deliverers are being informed by consultation We've had really positive feedback researchers have acknowledged the benefit of access to good web based tools The tools that we have chosen to work on and there was consensus for supporting tools that accommodate researchers without Coding skills through to those who are comfortable working with more technical applications The Researchers one of the one of the things that imagine from consultation was that researchers We were working with required a lot of direction in how to manage and prepare their data or sort of a pre-processing stage of information So workshops on both transcription and text analysis The discussion of data handling cleaning assembling a corpus and preparedness to use the tools actually dominated discussion Which demonstrated a need to help work bench and tool users understand how to effectively Gather and prepare their data before using the tools Accessibility of tools has arisen as a challenge. We're okay We're aiming for our workbench environment to be Welcoming and accessible and not something that you feel like you need to be a coder to use So we're exploring a number of options in response to that challenge including presenting One avenue into the tools as a series of recipes based on user pathways and these will be Designed around real and hypothetical research challenges that we've identified that make use of all of the tools and will be a segmented pathway through the through the workbench for the user Consultation has also already as I imagine in many devil circumstances led to opportunities that are outside of scope for the current project. So things like So we have talked about text analysis transcription and geocoding as the three main research practices that we wanted to work on But in consultations other issues such as an entity recognition and guidance on the data life cycle are areas of activity that would really impact research outcomes So to a degree our project team challenges one of our challenges for a project team is how to Incorporate those things where we do have the resources to avoid scope creep and consider what we might put into future projects So I just wanted to finish on our objectives for the project We are our main objectives are lowering barriers to entry for digital research tools for house researchers and democratizing access our primary focus is building skills across the community Brooding broadening the base and making digital tools data and research methods more accessible from walking We need to be flexible Responsive and thinking about this as a basis for the future We're building a modular environment It's one of the things that appealed to us about working with the eco cloud framework that can be expanded and reconfigured over time This is very much a starting point and can be a stimulus to further activity And as in going with that we're thinking about this as a pathway to the next step This is concretizing focusing and stimulating the conversation around these tools in this community and bringing the community together around a Prototype that we can build on we're building familiarity with the tools the barriers and the opportunities so that the Community is better informed and has the language to talk about the next step for supporting research infrastructure in humanities arts and social sciences And so looking forward we will have digital humanities pathways of its carrying out through the rest of this year We will have a presence at these upcoming conferences digital humanities Australasia in September and research Australia in October And for the meantime the best way to find out updates on the devil is to subscribe to us as Cultures and community ease newsletter with the The URL is there on your screen So thank you for that and please feel free to ask any questions in the chat window