Data Train Kick-off event 2024

Data Train is a training program that teaches skills of data literacy to scientists of all career levels. The hybrid course is a key element of the NFDI4Health training approach and aims at building the next generation of data-savvy researchers. Iris Pigeot, co-spokesperson of NFDI4Health, is one of the enthusiastic lecturers of the program and opened the Data Train Kick-off event 2024 in a festive speech.

Pleased to announce the official start of the next Data Train round: Iris Pigeot as a speaker at the kick-off event 2024. (c) Alberts/NFDI4Health

The digital transformation and the increasing amount of research data in the health sector are challenging our society. Data Train is a series of lectures that equips researchers from different disciplines with competencies in research data management and data science. In this way, Data Train meets the increasing demand of data literacy training and lays the foundation for informed decisions in our world of big data.

The U Bremen Research Alliance, NFDI4Health and further NFDI consortia, developed the successful Data Train concept in 2021. Since 2023, Data Train is part of Data Nord, the interdisciplinary data competence centre for the Bremen region. On 17 January 2024, the Starter Track program for beginners officially began and was opened in an impressive Kick-off event and Get-together at the Fraunhofer IFAM in Bremen. Iris Pigeot, director of the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS and co-spokesperson of the NFDI4Health consortium, welcomed all participations in her festive opening speech. The Data Train Starter Track runs from January to May 2024 and offers interesting lectures like “Statistical thinking”, “What does ChatGPT actually know?” or “About the meaningfulness of data”.

Registration for individual lectures is still open.