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GOBLET Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training - Toronto - Canada

Empowering people, harnessing communities, networking networks

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
November 14-16, 2014
Toronto, Canada

GOBLET was established in 2012 by a group of international & national

societies & networks to offer an umbrella for bioinformatics, biocuration,

biocomputing & computational biology (B3CB) learning, education & training.

Our Mission

To provide a global, sustainable support & networking infrastructure for
bioinformatics trainers & trainees (including a training portal for sharing
materials, tools, best practice documents, etc.)
To facilitate capacity development in bioinformatics in all countries
To develop standards & guidelines for bioinformatics education & training
To act as a hub for fund gathering
To reach out to teachers at high schools, to bridge the gap to the next
generation of bioinformaticians
To foster the international community of B3CB trainers

Our Ethos Embraces

inclusivity (welcoming all relevant organisations, networks, societies)
sharing (expertise, best practice, materials, tools, compute resources)
openness (using Creative Commons Licence)
innovation (welcoming imaginative ideas & approaches)
tolerance (transcending national, political, cultural & social boundaries
Our Themes Include
Quality (of training, training resources & trainers)
Accreditation
Incentivisation (recognition)
Training methods
Outreach
Sustainability (funding)

Our Themes Include

Quality (of training, training resources & trainers)
Accreditation
Incentivisation (recognition)
Training methods
Outreach
Sustainability (funding)

Responding to a recognised need to coordinate a spectrum of world-wide

training activities, we aim to share, not duplicate effort; to share, not duplicate

cost; to work together towards common solutions & a sustainable future.

Learning, Education & Training Committee

! Developing & sharing best practice in teaching & learning methods, &
providing curriculum guidance
! Providing recognition, support structures & resources for trainers, including
materials, methods & train-the-trainer programmes
Outreach & PR Committee
! Promoting GOBLET’s mission, training resources, activities & events
! Maintaining social networking interactions & galvanising the community to
participate in GOBLET initiatives

Standardisation Committee

! Providing accreditation mechanisms for learners & trainers, to better
signpost the wide range of available training programmes
! Increasing the overall quality of training programmes
Fund-raising Committee
! Stimulating collaborative projects within GOBLET & the training community
! Raising funds to sustain GOBLET
Technical Committee
! Providing a support infrastructure for trainers & trainees
! Maintaining an open Training Portal for the community

Main Achievements

! Launched the GOBLET Training Portal
! Established a poster track for education at ISMB
! Presented our first ISMB education poster
! Published two collaborative papers
! Won a Canadian grant to fund our next meeting in Toronto

Partecipating organisations

EMBnet,ISCB,APBioNet,ASBCB,ISB,EBI,NBIC,bioinformatics.ca,SIB,IGC,SEB,ABN,TGAC,Itico,CPGR,TSL,SGBC,CSC,EdGe,Nowgen,CGAT,BioSharing WT Advanced Courses & Conferences

Contact details

Executive Board

Terri Attwood, Chair

Vicky Schneider, Vice Chair

Michelle Brazas, Secretary

Fran Lewitter, Treasurer

Postal Address

GOBLET Sichting

CMBI Radboud University

Nijmegen Medical Centre

Geert Grooteplein 26‐28

6581 GB Nijmegen

Email

info@mygoblet.org

Website

www.mygoblet.org
annual meeting website
https://events.oicr.on.ca/goblet-2014-annual-general-meeting