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offered by other universities and HPC/computational research initiatives.

The objectives of the CodeRefinery project are:

• Organize and deliver workshops and events
• Develop and maintain a lesson portfolio
• Build a community and network of instructors and volunteer helpers
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## Bring your own classroom

When switching from in-person to online workshops the CodeRefinery team put a
lot of effort in embracing the online workshop format. A lot of thought has
lot of effort in embracing the online workshop format. A lot of thought has
been put into our online hand-on, demo and screen sharing setups in order to
provide the best possible learning experience to participants.

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our participants and helpers.
TU Delft researchers provided very positive feedback about this initiative reflected in
comments such as:

“It's great and extremely useful. If it was it for me I would make it mandatory knowledge. It's
really important that TU Delft continues promoting these workshops.”

“Excellent workshop: the graduate school would be so much better with more of these
practical & technical workshops”

The CodeRefinery initiative has helped us and benefit TU Delft researchers in several ways:

- The possibility of joining the workshops allowed us to advance with the
implementation of our Vision for Research Data & Software management training
and the implementation of TU Delft Research Software Policy by providing high
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continuously improve their skills and learn from this great community.
- The CodeRefinery learning materials are openly available and of excellent quality.
We often refer our researchers to use them as consultation materials on our websites
and/or guides. [...]"
and/or guides.
[...]"


## Sharing experiences and support for doing your own thing
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and the "EuroCC best practices in HPC training" program lead by ENCCS Sweden
(<https://enccs.github.io/instructor-training/>).

Mateusz Kuzak and his team from the Netherlands eScience center explains:
Mateusz Kuzak and his team from the Netherlands eScience center explain:

"[...] At the Center, we have been successfully using the training materials
developed by the CodeRefinery project since 2020. At that time, CodeRefinery
filled the gap in the intermediate research software skills for researchers.
Expand All @@ -172,11 +179,11 @@ Carpentries Instructor Training. They also realised that the pedagogical
methodology used by the Carpentries, heavily dependent on live coding, would
not work that well for intermediate audiences. They developed a curriculum
rich in independent work on complex exercises. At the eScience Center, we found
that approach more effective for less novice learners. CodeRefinery was also
that approach more effective for less novice learners. CodeRefinery was also
very innovative, introducing a distributed online approach with many helpers
supporting locally or in online breakout rooms. I believe that helps with
supporting locally or in online breakout rooms. I believe that helps with
scaling the course and reaching a new audience that otherwise wouldn't be able
to access this training. We at the eScience Center will continue reusing and
to access this training. We at the eScience Center will continue reusing and
contributing to the CodeRefinery project. [...]"


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open for everyone. Everyone is encouraged to ask their questions and discuss
the topics that interest them in a collaborative document. Instructors have a
variety of different scientific and cultural backgrounds and are in different
stages in their career. After each workshop participants are encouraged to
stages in their career.
After each workshop participants are encouraged to
join the community which mainly lives in the CodeRefinery Zulip chat that to
date is a home to 446 people with about 10% being really active. The chat is
also home to the Nordic-RSE and Nordic-HPC communities which are tightly knit
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into the project this way.

While the workshops are the main event for CodeRefinery, it is also a community
with an open heart for supporting research and providing courses on a
with an open heart for supporting research computing and providing courses on a
researchers level. Research Software Hour was born from the community, and has
brought topics of Research Software Engineering that you cannot teach in a
class to the research community (<https://researchsoftwarehour.github.io/>)
hosted by the nominee and others.
class to the research community (<https://researchsoftwarehour.github.io/>).

A Zenodo community is available to collect all CodeRefinery and CodeRefinery related outputs:
<https://zenodo.org/communities/coderefinery/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest>

CodeRefinery is also active on social media: LinkedIn (314 followers), X (860 followers) and Mastodon (296 followers).
CodeRefinery is also active on social media: LinkedIn (347 followers), X (844 followers) and Mastodon (313 followers).


## Reaching out
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- Barker, M., Breitmoser, E., Broadbent, P., Chue Hong, N., Hettrick, S., Lampaki, I., Quinn, A., & Taylor, R. (2024). Software and skills for research computing in the UK.
Zenodo. <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10473186> ; page 15

- Software Sustainability Institute Blog post on Free resources for technical staff: Career development and research software training by A. Nenadic and S. Aragon: <https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/free-resources-technical-staff-career-development-and-research-software-training>

- Goth F, Alves R, Braun M et al. Foundational Competencies and Responsibilities of a Research Software Engineer [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000Research 2024, 13:1429 <https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.157778.1>

A collection of reports (<https://coderefinery.org/about/reports/>) and
presentations (<https://coderefinery.org/about/presentations/>) about the project
are collected on our website.
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We are in contact with funders and past and potential future organizations to
make these efforts go on and likely we will continue the funded coordination +
in-kind partners model. For other structures we may collaborate with other
in-kind partners model. For other structures we may collaborate with other
organizations and projects.

If this project and its mission sounds like something you would like to join or
support, please contact support@coderefinery.org and we can discuss in more
detail.
support, we have multiple ways to get involved from spreading the word as an ambassador, supporting material and workshop format development, becoming an instructor and teaching with us to organizing workshops with us or on your own. Please contact support@coderefinery.org or join our chat (<https://coderefinery.zulipchat.com/>) and we can discuss in more
detail.

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