On Tuesday 12 July 2022, PerMedCoE partner EMBL-EBI participated in the Education COSI on “The EMBL-EBI Competency Hub: a tool to support training design and professional development”. Marta Lloret-Llinares participated in the discussion and shared experience from the PerMedCoE project.
The discussion covered the following:
Professions within the life sciences domain are evolving rapidly with the adoption of new methods and technologies, which requires researchers and other professionals to incorporate new skills to stay at the forefront of the latest developments in their discipline.
At EMBL-EBI we have built a tool to support continuous professional development by facilitating the identification of training needs and the access to relevant training resources. The Competency Hub hosts competency frameworks for different groups of professionals, including the ISCB framework for students and professionals in computational biology. It enables the definition of career profiles, which helps identify the abilities required for a specific role, e.g. bioinformatician, and therefore, inform career choices and professional development.
The tool allows the association of training resources with the competencies, so that users can find where to start learning. It includes learning pathways, curated sets of resources to address a specific challenge within a field or community, e.g. how to access high performance computing resources to run simulations.
The Competency Hub has been developed in close consultation with competency experts and by gathering input from target users through an iterative user experience design approach to make sure that it meets their needs.
More information on the 2022 ISCMB Conference can be found here.