D1.4 Training Week 2 "Towards a user driven open data ecosystem"

Towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955569. The opinions expressed in this document reflect only the author’s view and in no way reflect the European Commission’s opinions. The European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” Project Acronym ODECO Project Title Towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem Grant Agreement No. 955569 Start date of Project 01-10-2021 Duration of the Project 48 months Deliverable Number D1.4 Deliverable Title Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” Dissemination Level Public Deliverable Leader Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR) Submission Date 28-04-2023 Author Francisco J Lopez-Pellicer, UNIZAR Co-author(s) All beneficiaries responsible for one of the training programme modules (CNRS, KUL, TU DELFT) Document history Version # Date Description (Section, page number) Author & Organisation V0.1 05-04-2023 First draft Francisco J Lopez-Pellicer, UNIZAR V0.1a 21-04-2023 Review Rikke Magnussen, AAU Andrea Polini, UNICAM V0.2 21-04-2023 Second draft. Processed feedback obtained from the peer review process Francisco J Lopez-Pellicer, UNIZAR V0.2a 24-04-2023Review Rikke Magnussen, AAU Andrea Polini, UNICAM V1.0 24-04-2023Final report Francisco J Lopez-Pellicer, UNIZAR D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” Table of Contents Abbreviations ____________________________________________________________________ 4 1. Introduction __________________________________________________________________ 5 1.1. Training week programme objective ___________________________________________ 5 1.2. Setup of the programme ____________________________________________________ 5 1.3. Location _________________________________________________________________ 7 1.4. Credits __________________________________________________________________ 7 1.5. Supervisors attending the training week ________________________________________ 7 1.6. Social activities ___________________________________________________________ 7 2. Day 1 – Masterclass (I) _________________________________________________________ 8 2.1. Objectives, activities, assignments, and program _________________________________ 8 2.2. Evaluation of Day 1 ________________________________________________________ 9 3. Day 2 – Professional Skills Training ______________________________________________ 10 3.1. Objectives, activities, assignments, and program ________________________________ 10 3.2. Evaluation of Day 2 _______________________________________________________ 11 4. Day 3 – Masterclass (II) _______________________________________________________ 12 4.1. Objectives, activities, assignments, and program ________________________________ 12 4.2. Evaluation of Day 3 _______________________________________________________ 13 5. Day 4 – ODECO Network Day __________________________________________________ 14 5.1. Objectives, activities, assignments, and program ________________________________ 14 5.2. Evaluation of Day 4 _______________________________________________________ 14 6. Day 5 – Outreach event _______________________________________________________ 16 6.1. Objectives, activities, assignments, and program ________________________________ 16 6.2. Evaluation of Day 5 _______________________________________________________ 16 7. Summary & Conclusions _______________________________________________________ 17 7.1. Summary _______________________________________________________________ 17 7.2. Recommendations for the design of the next Training Week _______________________ 17 D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” 4 Abbreviations D Deliverable ESR Early Stage Researcher M Milestone ODECO Open Data ECOsystem WP Work Package Nr Partner Partner short name Country Beneficiary 1 Technische Universiteit Delft TU Delft Netherlands 2 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven KUL Belgium 3 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS France 4 Universidad de Zaragoza UNIZAR Spain 5 Panepistimio Aigaiou UAEGEAN Greece 6 Aalborg Universitet AAU Denmark 7 Università degli Studi di Camerino UNICAM Italy 8 Farosnet S.A. FAROSNET S.A. Greece Partner organisations 1 7EDATA 7EDATA Spain 2 Digitaal Vlaanderen DV Belgium 3 City of Copenhagen COP Denmark 4 City of Rotterdam RDAM Netherlands 5 CoC Playful Minds CoC Denmark 6 Derilinx DERI Ireland 7 ESRI ESRI Netherlands 8 Doctrine DOCTRINE France 9 Maggioli S.p.A MAG Italy 10 National Centre of Geographic Information CNIG Spain 11 Open Knowledge Belgium OKB Belgium 12 Spatineo SPATI Finland 13 SWECO SWECO Netherlands 14 University of Paris Nanterre UPN France D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” 5 1. Introduction The training week programme in the ODECO project is organised in five training weeks planned to be executed through the entire duration of the project by the various beneficiaries: 1. Training week 1: ‘Understanding open data as an ecosystem’ (+ Consortium Meeting 1) (AAU M12); 2. Training week 2: ‘Towards a user driven open data ecosystem’ (+ Consortium Meeting 2) (UNIZAR M18); 3. Training week 3: Towards a circular open data ecosystem’ (+ Consortium Meeting 3) (UNICAM M24); 4. Training week 4: ‘Towards an inclusive open data ecosystem’ (+ Consortium Meeting 4) (KULEUVEN M30); 5. Training week 5: ‘Towards the open data ecosystem’ (+ Consortium Meeting 5) (UAEGEAN M36). Each training week include the following elements to enhance collaboration and communication among the ESRs as well as the whole project team: • Network events; • Master classes; • Professional skills training; • An outreach activity. This report is a record of Training week 2 planned and conducted by UNIZAR from Mar. 27th – Mar. 31st, 2023, at Universidad de Zaragoza in Zaragoza Spain. The issues/subjects covered by the second training week were mutually defined by the beneficiaries of the project regarding the specific needs of the Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) between M19 – M23. 1.1. Training week programme objective The overall objective of the Training Week 2 is to get ESRs acquainted with users of open data, their interests, needs and role in the open data ecosystem. The programme thus aimed to stimulate collaboration between ESRs and external partners (organisations, academia, and industry) with an explicit or implicit open data focus. Additionally, the Training Week should also support the ESRs in gaining leadership and social media perspective through training on diverse topics such funding opportunities, gender dimension, dissemination, and research of social media. Finally, the objective was to engage ESRs in an outreach event related to the use of open data for storytelling. 1.2. Setup of the programme Below is the training program as it was planned in the Description of Action. Table 1: Initial programme for the Training Week 2 Day Activity Day 1 ESR progress presentations to the ODECO network & Social event (evening) Days 2 & 3 ODECO Master Class II • Users, and user engagement: concepts, approaches, and activities (TU Delft and KU Leuven) (1 day); • Open data in practice: Understanding users (needs) & providers (needs) from multiple perspectives (RDAM, Farosnet, CNIG, 7EDATA, SPATI, MAG) (1 day). Day 4 Professional Skills Training Leadership (coaching, negotiation, change management) (UNIZAR), social media for research (input and/or dissemination) (UNIZAR) Day 5 Outreach event ODECO Datathon ‘Improving existing data ecosystems’ organized by all ESRs, with support from CNIG, ESRI, MAG, SWECO, 7EDATA and OSF. D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” 6 However, after analysing the feedback of Training Week 1 we decided that was better to: • Reorder the activities, moving ODECO Network Day to Day 4 • Interleave Masterclass and Professional Skills Training. • Organise Social events from Day 1 to Day 4. In addition, SPATI, MAG, and RDAM were not available for the masterclass so new participants were invited to share their experience with open data in practice (Aragon Government, GPT laboratory from UNIZAR). Regarding to the outreach event, it was designed by ESR 02 and ESR 08 with the support of their supervisors. The event was designed to maximise the learning outcomes of the ESR as ERSs have requested more training on practical open data use. In practice, the resulting outreach event would require a negligible support from partners if required. After applying the above changes, training week was planned as four and a half days programme with social events on full days with the following themes for each day: Table 2: Programme for the Training Week 2, brief version Day Activity Day 1 Masterclass (I) Understanding users (needs) & providers (needs) from multiple perspectives. • Aragon Open Data, data story telling (Aragon Government) • aGROSLab: an agricultural SAAS using Open Data (7eData) • Using Open Data for developing learning activities: the eSTEM project experience" (UNIZAR) • Design of a user-oriented semantic searcher (CNIG) • Open Data in the journalism sector (FAROSNET) Day 2 Professional Skills Training Leadership (coaching, negotiation, change management), social media for research (input and/or dissemination). • Social media as input for research (UNIZAR); • Dissemination of research in social media (UNIZAR); • Leadership – funding opportunities (UNIZAR); • Leadership – Gender dimension (UNIZAR). Day 3 Masterclass (II) Understanding users (needs) & providers (needs) from multiple perspectives. • Users, and user engagement: concepts, approaches, and activities (TU Delft and KU Leuven) • Understanding disadvantaged users (TU Delft and KU Leuven) • Circular Economy (GPT - UNIZAR) Professional Skills Training • Ethics (CNRS) Day 4 ODECO Network Day ESR progress presentations to the ODECO network (+ Consortium Meeting 2) Day 5 Outreach event ODECO Datathon ‘Improving existing data ecosystems’ The detailed program for the various days will be presented in the following sections. The invitations for Training Week 2 were sent out three months before the event to ESRs and beneficiaries. D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” 7 1.3. Location The location of the Training Week was the training room (“Aula”) of the R&D&I Building, Campus Rio Ebro, Zaragoza. The training week was organised with the support of the Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), the UNIZAR institute to which ODECO UNIZAR supervisors and ESRs belong. 1.4. Credits It was agreed by the SB to issue a Certificate of Achievement for the training week at UNIZAR for 50 hours workload as each country has different standards for what workloads reflect ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System). The Certificate of Achievement was given to all ESRs during the training week. 1.5. Supervisors attending the training week Twelve supervisors were present during the training week, either physical at the meetings (8) or online on a zoom link (4). Table 3: Supervisors attendance for the Training Week 2 Beneficiary Supervisors TU Delft Bastiaan van Loenen Ingrid Mulder Anneke Zuiderwijk (online participation) KUL Glenn Vancauwenberghe Joep Crompvoets (online participation) CNRS Melanie Dulong de Rosnay (online participation) UNIZAR Javier Nogueras Francisco J Lopez-Pellicer UAEGEAN Euripidis Loukis AAU Rikke Magnussen (online participation) UNICAM Andrea Polini (day 1: online participation, day 2 to 5: at Zaragoza) FAROSNET Antonis Fourlis (day 1: online participation, day 2 to 4: at Zaragoza) 1.6. Social activities To strengthen team building and networking between ESRs and supervisors, social activities had been planned for every evening from Day 1 to Day 4. The social activities are an important element in the training week and are highly appreciated by all participants. The positive dynamics and team building between ESRs during the Training Week is a direct consequence of this program of social activities. Table 4. Social activities for the Training Week 2 Day Activity Day 1 Visit to the Aljafería Palace, a fortified medieval palace built during the second half of the 11th century that currently houses the Cortes (regional parliament) of the autonomous community of Aragon. Day 2 Touristic route through the centre of Zaragoza, landmarks visited: the Basílica del Pilar, the La Seo Cathedral, 16th century palaces and the Roman Theatre. Day 3 Visit to the Mobility City Museum at Expo 2008 Bridge pavilion (designed by Zaha Hadid). Day 4 Gala dinner at "Tres Mares Restaurante Náutico" on the right bank of Ebro River, behind the Basílica del Pilar and overlooking the Puente de Piedra. D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” 8 2. Day 1 – Masterclass (I) 2.1. Objectives, activities, assignments, and program The overall objective of Day 1 was for the ESRs to get acquainted of users’ needs and data providers’ needs related to open data from multiple perspectives. The program consisted of five 15-30 min. talks followed by 15-30 minutes of discussion between representatives from organizations, ESRs and beneficiaries. The speakers represented Spanish private and governmental organizations with focus or projects related to the use of open data. They had been asked to talk about lessons learned in their respective context related to users’ needs and data providers’ needs related to open data. The programme thus aimed to stimulate collaboration between ESRs and external partners (organisations, academia, and industry) with an explicit or implicit open data focus. The visiting organisations both participated online and physically, and the interactive programme created highly interesting discussions both between ESRs and partner organisations, and between partner organisations that created networking meetings both during and after the training week. Table 5. Program Day 1 Time Activity Responsible Description 8:30 BREAKFAST . 9:00 INTRODUCTION 9:30 Aragon Open Data, data story telling Julian Moyano, Aragon Government Julian Moyano leads the Open Data Aragon initiative of the Aragon Government, which maintains the open data portal of the Aragon Government. He shared insights and experience related user needs obtained from his work at Aragon Open Data. 10:30 aGROSLab: an agricultural SAAS using Open Data Jesús Gerique, 7eData * Jesús Gerique was unable to attend and F. Javier Zarazaga Soria, UNIZAR, presented his slides on behalf of him Jesús Gerique is the CEO of 7eData. aGROSLab is a SAAS developed by 7eData that uses open geospatial and phytosanitary data. He shared his experience on reusing such data. 11:00 Using Open Data for developing learning activities: the eSTEM project experience" F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria, UNIZAR F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria is a member of the ESRASMUS+ project eSTEM, led by University of Pisa, which provides STEM teachers with ML tools capable of transforming open data into training materials. He shared insights and experience related to the challenges that teachers face with these tools. 11:30 BREAK D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” 9 Time Activity Responsible Description 12:00 Design of a useroriented semantic searcher Ana Velasco / Paloma Abad, CNIG Ana Velasco and Paloma Abad participate in the development of a dataset search engine for the CNIG whose usability has been assessed by ESR 02 during his secondment at CNIG. She explained the lessons learnt related to user needs from this evaluation. 13:00 LUNCH 15:00 Open Data in the journalism sector Antonis Fourlis, FAROSNET * Online participation Antonis Fourlis is Journalist - Huffpost Greece Editor in Chief and ANT1 anchor & producer. He has shared his personal experience on how data journalism is re-inventing journalism. 16:00 END 18:00 SOCIAL EVENT Visit to the Aljafería Palace, a fortified medieval palace built during the second half of the 11th century that currently houses the Cortes (regional parliament) of the autonomous community of Aragon. 2.2. Evaluation of Day 1 ESR. ESR candidates Ramya Chandrasekhar (position 4) and Hector Ochoa (position 13) attended the second training week. During the introduction point of the agenda, they took the opportunity to introduce themselves to the rest of the group. Although Umair Ahmed (ESR 14) was unable to attend physically due to a travel delay, he followed the activities of the first day online. Content. The partner collaboration day was overall very well received by the ESRs. As during Training Week 1, ESRs expressed that the presentations of speakers were remarkably interesting and that it was again a great opportunity to meet with partners to develop collaboration. The ESRs were initiativetaking on the discussions of open data user needs and were highly interested in the experience of the visiting organisations with open data. Training materials. All training material used during the presentations was kept in an MS Teams archive for future use by the ESRs. Deviations. Jesús Gerique, 7eData, was unable to attend and F. Javier Zarazaga Soria, UNIZAR, presented his slides on behalf of him. D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” 16 6. Day 5 – Outreach event 6.1. Objectives, activities, assignments, and program The outreach event is the ODECO Datathon “Improving existing data ecosystems”. This activity is open to all the students of the Engineering and Architecture School (EINA) of UNIZAR and was included as an activity of the 14th Edition of the Engineering and Architecture Week (27-31 March). The aim of this event is to evaluate ESRs creativity in using open data. Each team of 3-4 members will be given an open dataset to work with, and the task is to prepare a visualization that tells a compelling story or reveals interesting insights about the data. This relates to the lecture on Open Data Aragon and storytelling of Day 1. Table 9. Program Day 5 Time Activity Responsible Description 8:30 BREAKFAST 9:00 Kick-off ESRs Introduction to the datathon. Organisation in teams of 3-4 participants. 9:15 Context and data understanding ESRs Each team chooses one of the available themes and explore the available datasets. 10:00 Data preparation ESRs Each team prepares its dataset for data analysis (data cleaning, manage missing values, delete duplicate data) 10:45 Data analysis ESRs Each team formulates more specific data-oriented research questions and selects a chart type. 11:45 Deliverable preparation ESRs Each team creates a final visualization and prepares a presentation 12:30 Presentation and judging ESRs Each team has up to 5 minutes to present their work to the jury 13:00 LUNCH In addition, in the morning there was also a short session that was not included in the agenda in which the ESRs interacted to better shape the upcoming ODECO deliverable D2.1. 6.2. Evaluation of Day 5 Content. The Datathon was well received by the ESRs. Training materials. All materials and datasets were kept in an MS Teams archive for future use by the ESRs. D1.4 Training Week 2 “Towards a user driven open data ecosystem” 17 7. Summary & Conclusions 7.1. Summary Training week 2 was developed and implemented as a five-day course with the following objectives: 1. To get ESRs acquainted with sectoral user needs on open data. 2. To stimulate collaboration both between the ESRs and external partners such as organisations and industry with an open data focus (started in Training week 1). 3. To support the ESRs in gaining an interdisciplinary perspective (started in Training week 1). 4. To provide professional skills training in research/ education ethics and professional integrity, team working, group dynamics and in organizing (public) events (started in Training week 1). The training week ran from Mar. 27th – Mar. 31st, 2023, at Universidad de Zaragoza in Zaragoza (Spain) with the support of the Aragon Institute of Engineering Research (I3A) and included the following days and activities: • Day 1 - Masterclass (I): Understanding users (needs) & providers (needs) from multiple perspectives (Aragon Government, 7eData, UNIZAR, CNIG, FAROSNET). • Day 2 – Professional Skills Training: Leadership (coaching, negotiation, change management), social media for research (input and/or dissemination). • Day 3 - Masterclass (II): Users, and user engagement: concepts, approaches, and activities (TU Delft, KUL), Understanding disadvantaged users (TU Delft, KUL) and Circular Economy (UNIZAR); additionally professional skills training on Ethics (CNRS) • Day 4 - ODECO Network Day ESR progress presentations to the ODECO network. • Day 5 - Outreach event - ODECO Datathon “Improving existing data ecosystems”. The training week was overall evaluated positively by ESRs and beneficiaries with minor comments. In addition, I3A contributed to the dissemination of the activities performed during the training week preparing a press release 2 , which was distributed through the newsletter and the web page of the institute. 7.2. Recommendations for the design of the next Training Week Analysing the evaluation results of each day, the following tips should be considered during the design of the next training week: • Keep ESR presentations short (5 min) allowing for longer feedback sessions from supervisors in tracks dependent on the needs of ODECO project. • The partner organisation-networking day has been successful and should be included in the following training weeks as well. • The cross-disciplinary teaching sessions and the professional training were a success and should be part of future training weeks too. • A stable web connection and camera should be ensured for online attendance. • The week should still be a 5-day week but with either longer breaks, shorter days or a break or shift in scenery in the middle of the week. • The social evening program was a success and should be kept strengthening team building and networking between ESRs. • Training week organisers must ensure visibility of training week activities and events in parallel events and activities held in the host institution. 2 https://i3a.unizar.es/es/noticias/el-i3a-acoge-15-estudiantes-de-doctorado-dentro-del-proyectoeuropeo-odeco