This paper is from Session 5D: Statistical Education and Work Integrated Learning
which comes under Topic 5: Statistics education in the workplace, government and across disciplines
Paper 5D2 (Monday 9th, 14:00-15:30)
Flanders’ Training Network for Methodology and Statistics (FLAMES)
Presenter
- Emmanuel Abatih (Ghent University, Belgium)
Co-authors
- An Carbonez (KULeuven, Belgium)
- Els Goetghebeur (Ghent University, Belgium)
- Karen François (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
- Koen Plevoets (KULeuven, Belgium)
Abstract
FLAMES is an inter-university doctoral training network in which all five Flemish universities collaborate. It provides a structural, accessible, broad and high quality course offer for young researchers needing methodological and statistical insight and skills. Capitalizing on complementary expertise it builds synergies and turns competition into collaboration to optimize available training and leverage science. We develop modules for basic, complex and advanced data analysis, organize a yearly two week summer school and workshops on demand. Our co-taught courses travel the country. We will share 6 years of experience with the new model for collaboration sponsored by government, carried by faculty and coordinators from various disciplines in the different universities. We hope to learn from similar international experiments to build a network that can reach further.