What is a Carpentries Workshop?

The Carpentries teaches in-person workshops around the world on the foundational skills to work effectively and reproducibly with data and code. Our certified volunteer Instructors are trained in pedagogy and focus on creating a motivating and engaging environment for learners. Our workshops are inclusive and hands-on, empowering students to learn new skills and build confidence in using them in their work.

Because our workshops are taught around the world, we have a team of Regional Coordinators to help support the coordination of workshop activities. They are available to answer any questions or concerns you may have about our workshops or The Carpentries in general.

We encourage you to check out our upcoming and past workshops to see examples of how The Carpentries workshops are run.

Read our Workshops FAQ to learn more.

• Workshop Curriculum
• Organising a Workshop
• Core Requirements for a Workshop
• Workshop Cost
• Upcoming Workshops

* Learners count is estimated based on average workshop attendance of 25.

Workshop Curriculum

Organising a Workshop

The Carpentries offers two types of workshops: Centrally-Organised and Self-Organised.

Requesting a Centrally-Organised Workshop

Centrally organised workshops come with the full support of The Carpentries Workshop Administration team! These workshops are organised for a fee. The Regional Coordinator for your region will locate and coordinate instructors for the workshop. We want to ensure your workshop is successful. Therefore we ask that you request Centrally-Organised workshops at least 2-3 months before your desired workshop date. To learn more about the process for organising a workshop please review the Workshop Checklist.

* We work to find local instructors, but you should budget for instructor travel
** 50% of fees for for-profit institutions go to support workshops in areas with financial need
Read more about our workshop costs.

Registration of Self-Organised Workshops

The Carpentries welcomes you to organise and run your own workshop. This means you are already connected with our certified Instructors and will work with them on all aspects of workshop organisation. When planning a Self-Organised workshop we ask that you complete the self organised workshop notification form to notify us of your planned workshop so that we can add your workshop to our website, provide support (in the form of survey result links and AMI instances for Genomics workshops), and get instructors and helpers credit for the workshops they teach. To learn more about the process for organising a workshop please review the Workshop Checklist. Since you will be taking care of all the logistics, there is no administrative fee due to The Carpentries for running a Self-Organised workshop.

Remember, we want to know about any workshops you teach that use The Carpentries material! If you teach a workshop that is shorter or longer format, or mixes and matches from Lesson Programs, we are piloting tracking these workshops. You can register a Self-Organised workshop and it will be listed on The Carpentries webpage.

What are the requirements for a Carpentries workshop?

A Carpentries workshop must meet the following requirements:

• Teach a lesson program's core curriculum
• Have at least one certified instructor
• Must use The Carpentries curriculum
• Use The Carpentries surveys to get evaluations
• Abide by The Carpentries Code of Conduct.

What are the Core curricula for a Carpentries Workshop?

Workshop Cost

• The total cost of hosting a workshop includes both the Workshop Administration Fee and travel expenses for the instructors.
• The administration fee is used to support staff time with this partnership. You will be provided with exceptional customer service and timely support from our Workshop Administration Team and Regional Coordinators.

Workshop Administration Fee (Government and non-profit institutions):

• $2500 US (Applies only to Centrally-Organised workshops being coordinated outside of a Carpentries membership)
• The Carpentries staff will recruit instructors to teach your workshop and will assist with managing registration, if needed.
• To keep workshops accessible, The Carpentries will take responsibility for standard fees that arise due to an organisation’s location outside of the US. We see this as good business practice within a global community.

Workshop Administration Fee (For Profit institutions):

For information on fees for for-profit organisations, please contact us. 50% of workshop coordination fees for for-profit organisations go towards supporting workshops in areas with financial need.

All invoices will be issued by Community Initiatives, our fiscal sponsor. The Carpentries staff will work with host sites to manage the invoicing process.

Workshop Administration Scholarship

Scholarships may be available for workshops that reach new or under-served communities. If you are interested in hosting a Centrally Organised workshop and would like to request assistance covering the fee, please complete the Workshop Request Form. Select the option “I am requesting a scholarship to waive the administrative fee” and answer the required questions. If a scholarship is awarded, the host will still be responsible for the instructor travel expenses.

Travel Expenses for Instructors:

Contact Us

Someone in your region is waiting to speak to you about The Carpentries and/or to request a workshop! We invite you to contact your Regional Coordinator or request information about our workshops to start the conversation!

Upcoming workshops

Click on an individual event to learn more about that event, including contact information and registration instructions.

	UW-Madison ** Instructors: Christina Koch, Sarah Stevens, Clare Michaud, Madison Youngblom Helpers: Lauren Michael, Elizabeth McDaniel, Casey Schacher, Moksha Menghaney, Erwin Lares, Maij Xyooj, Nathaniel Schleif	Sep 16 - Dec 9, 2020
	Aarhus University ** Instructors: Adela Sobotkova, Petra Heřmánková	Oct 29 - Dec 3, 2020
	Central European University (online) Instructors: Miklós Koren	Nov 10 - Nov 26, 2020
	CILIP MDG Library Carpentry, sponsored by The University of Manchester Library (online) ** Instructors: Nilani Ganeshwaran, Phil Reed, Carlene Barton Helpers: Jane Gallagher	Nov 12 - Dec 10, 2020
	University of Minnesota (online) ** Instructors: Cody Hennesy, Caitlin Bakker, David Naughton, Wanda Marsolek Helpers: Katie Wilson	Nov 12 - Dec 10, 2020
	(online) Instructors: Timo Gnadt, Claudia Engelhardt, Laura Josephine Botzet Helpers: Astrid Orth, Andreas Walker	Nov 23 - Dec 4, 2020
	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Instructors: Bret Alexander Beheim, Han Tran Helpers: Ilaria Pretelli	Nov 23 - Nov 27, 2020
	Swansea University (online) Instructors: Mark Dawson, Michele Mesiti Helpers: Ben Thorpe	Nov 23 - Nov 27, 2020
	University of Edinburgh Instructors: Mario Antonioletti, Lucia Michielin, Matthew Hamilton Helpers: Jennifer Daub, Robert Nagy, Bailey Harrington	Nov 25 - Nov 27, 2020
	Research Software London Instructors: Christopher Cave-Ayland, Iain Barrass Helpers: Jazz Mack Smith, Jeremy Cohen, Tony Yang, Jay DesLauriers, Matt Alexandrakis	Nov 25 - Nov 27, 2020
	Pawsey Supercomputing Centre ** Instructors: Tarun Bonu	Nov 26 - Nov 26, 2020
	Clemson University (online) Instructors: Sherry Lake, Robin Donatello, Jesse Johnston	Dec 1 - Dec 4, 2020
	December 2020 SWC Workshop @TU Delft (online) Instructors: Nicolas Dintzner	Dec 1 - Dec 9, 2020
	NNLM Instructors: Tracy Teal, Chissa Rivaldi, Douglas Joubert, Adam Hughes	Dec 1 - Dec 2, 2020
	Triangle Research Library Network (online) Instructors: Kathryn Miller, Rohit Goswami, Benson Muite	Dec 1 - Dec 4, 2020
	University of Edinburgh ** Instructors: Edward Wallace, Felicity Anderson Helpers: Giacomo Peru, Bailey Harrington, Elliot Chapman, Bryan Wee	Dec 1 - Dec 15, 2020
	Carnegie Mellon University (online) Instructors: David Yakobovitch, Annajiat Alim Rasel, Adrienne Canino, Elizabeth Dobbins	Dec 2 - Dec 4, 2020
	Curtin University Instructors: Paul Hancock Helpers: Sawitchaya (Nancy) Tippaya, Rakib Hassan, Aniek Roelofs	Dec 2 - Dec 3, 2020
	University of Newcastle Instructors: Jannetta Steyn, Rebecca Osselton, David Herbert	Dec 7 - Dec 11, 2020
	Utrecht University Instructors: Anita Schürch, Julian Paganini, Jesse Kerkvliet Helpers: Malbert Rogers	Dec 7 - Dec 9, 2020
	Auburn University (online) Instructors: Chuck McAndrew, MONAH ABOU ALEZZ, Benson Muite	Dec 7 - Dec 10, 2020
	Curtin University Instructors: Kathryn Napier Helpers: Paul Hancock, Behrouz Khabbaz Beheshti	Dec 7 - Dec 8, 2020
	Spelman College jointly hosting with Morehouse College (online) Instructors: Aditya Bandla, Annajiat Alim Rasel, Ana Carolina Dantas Machado, Qinyun Lin	Dec 7 - Dec 10, 2020
	Texas State Digital Library Instructors: Akshay Paropkari, Elnaz Amanzadeh Jajin	Dec 7 - Dec 10, 2020
	NOAA (online) Instructors: Daniel Wheeler, Elise Lauterbur, Martino Sorbaro Sindaci, David DeFranza	Dec 8 - Dec 11, 2020
	Dartmouth College (online) ** Instructors: James Adams, Lora Leligdon, JIANJUN HUA, Stephen Gaughan, Pamela Bagley, Paige Scudder, Christian Darabos, John Cocklin	Dec 8 - Dec 11, 2020
	BetterLab Instructors: Nelly Sélem, José Manuel Villalobos Escobedo, Abraham Avelar	Dec 14 - Dec 15, 2020
	Atlanta University (online) Instructors: Rachael Blake, Muriel Dunn, Annajiat Alim Rasel, Sally Chang	Dec 14 - Dec 17, 2020
	AAS 237, Virtually Anywhere (online) Instructors: Yuping Huang	Jan 7 - Jan 8, 2021
	Leiden University and Delft University of Technology (online) Instructors: Kristina Hettne, Jeff Love Helpers: Esther Plomp, Yan Wang	Jan 14 - Jan 22, 2021
	Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) (online) Instructors: Ariel Deardorff, Saranya Canchi, Jacqueline Frisina, Annajiat Alim Rasel, Adrienne Canino	Jan 20 - Jan 21, 2021
	The Jackson Laboratory (online) Instructors: Peter Hoyt, Elise Lauterbur, Aditya Bandla, Leah Guthrie	Jan 20 - Jan 29, 2021
	BetterLab Instructors: Nelly Sélem, José Manuel Villalobos Escobedo, Abraham Avelar	Jan 29 - Jan 29, 2021
	Uppsala University, SciLifeLab, BMC, ** Instructors: Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström, Niclas Jareborg, Elin Kronander	Apr 13 - Apr 15, 2021

** Workshops marked with asterisks are based on curriculum from The Carpentries lesson programs but may not follow our standard workshop format.

Workshops with a globe icon are being held online. The corresponding flag notes the country where the host organization is based.