Framework for training and education activities in interoperability of ESA

Abstract

The ATHENA Training Service offers high quality training in interoperability, aiming to generate an extensive impact in the field of interoperability. It allows students to understand the why’s and how’s of today’s common problems at business level, which are directly or indirectly caused by interoperability prob-lems. Having lecturers with international recognised expertise in interoperability, the ATHENA training courses and programmes are designed to meet the specific interests of different target-groups, which vary from academia to industry, from IT to business oriented, from software engineers to senior consultants, and from researchers in interoperability to university teachers. Thus, the curriculum is targeting everybody con-cerned with interoperabil-ity issues that affect today’s business at several industry sectors. Each course has its own target audience, and students can choose from a large variety of courses, which focus different inter-operability application areas, the ones that most suite their requirements and needs. A blended learning of-fering is provided, consisting of classroom, virtual classroom and e-learning training for the interested par-ties. Basic training is offered in different languages, while specific training is only offered in English. This paper presents the framework for training and education activities in interoperability of ESA, that is in de-velopment by ATHENA.