Training has been an essential part of the ExPaNDS project: to provide training material accessible to staff and users from Photon and Neutron (PaN) Research Infrastructures is one of the key objectives of the project.
ExPaNDs partners aimed to educate and train users to exploit the services developed during the project by organizing a series of events and delivering training materials on a dedicated platform (pan-training.eu).
The EU-funded project ExPaNDS aimed at developing Open Science services for the Photon and Neutron (PaN) Research Infrastructures.
The pan-training.eu portal is a result of the two H2020 projects ExPaNDS and PaNOSC. Our portal consists firstly of a catalogue for the registration of third-party training materials such as tutorials, videos, repositories or training workflows to show learning steps and dependencies between materials. On the other hand, the portal also offers a tightly coupled e-learning system with PaN-specific learning courses with Jupyter notebook support. The catalogue is based on an established solution developed by the Elixir community which is also available within EOSC. With the catalogue, we are strengthening the role of EOSC services for the PaN scientific field, with a focus on providing a sustainable training, learning and documentation platform for the PaN community including initiatives such as LEAPS, LENS and Laserlab Europe. Up to date, the platform gathers 181 materials including almost 50 courses, as well as 303 events and 10 workflows.