Skills & training priorities - building sustainable models

The ARDC skills summit 2019 explored how national coordination of community development, training initiatives and policy initiatives could be improved to develop a digitally skilled workforce. Key outcomes from the summit are: - identify the return on investments for investing in research support professionals and digital skills for researchers - knowledge transfer on workforce development initiatives undertaken at institutional, discipline and national levels - form a trainers community of practice groups to connect people that engage with and train researchers in digital skills. Based on these outcomes and consultation with various groups involved in developing digitally skilled workforce, a list of challenges has been identified in growing and nurturing skills required by the Australian Research community. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BBtijInIig01DgL4uoMH3O0o35nUHxkG7ZdJB4QRVwI/edit?usp=sharing In this session, we will discuss each of the challenges broadly, cluster them based on themes and prioritise them for actions, which will feed into Community Session #5 - Call for action