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.

• 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 workshop. 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

	Karolinska Institutet Instructors: Thor Wikfeldt, Martin Moche	Oct 14 - Oct 15, 2019
	University of Bradford Instructors: Krzysztof Poterlowicz Helpers: Katarzyna Murat	Oct 14 - Oct 15, 2019
	University of Michigan Instructors: Joshua Stough, Rucheng Diao, Morgan Oneka Helpers: Sarah Tomkovich	Oct 14 - Oct 15, 2019
	Griffith University Instructors: Amanda Miotto	Oct 16 - Oct 17, 2019
	UCL Qatar Instructors: Armin Straube	Oct 16 - Oct 17, 2019
	Computing Skills For Reproducible Research: Software Carpentry - EMBL, Heidelberg Instructors: Malvika Sharan, Toby Hodges, Thomas Schwarzl, Mike Smith, Holger Dinkel, Frank Thommen Helpers: Thea Van Rossum, Georg Zeller	Oct 16 - Oct 18, 2019
	UCLA Instructors: Deidre Whitmore, Jamie Jamison, Kristian Allen, Leigh Phan Helpers: Tim Dennis, Geno Sanchez, Mark Matney	Oct 16 - Oct 24, 2019
	IIDA Conference Center Instructors: Becca Love, David Welch	Oct 17 - Oct 17, 2019
	Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago Instructors: Angela Li, Colin Quirk	Oct 17 - Oct 18, 2019
	University of Arkansas Instructors: Stephanie Pierce, Michael Gibbs Helpers: James McCartney, Joe Paparo, Lora Lennertz, Nick Salonen	Oct 18 - Oct 19, 2019
	The Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR Instructors: Ashar Malik	Oct 21 - Oct 23, 2019
	Brown University Library Instructors: Joshua Dull, Ashley Champagne	Oct 21 - Oct 22, 2019
	ZB MED Instructors: Silvia Di Giorgio, Konrad Förstner, Till Sauerwein Helpers: Eva Seidlmayer, Klaus Lippert	Oct 21 - Oct 22, 2019
	University of South Dakota Instructors: Carrie Brown Helpers: Ryan Johnson	Oct 21 - Oct 22, 2019
	Norwegian University of Science and Technology Instructors: Niall Beard, David Perez-Suarez	Oct 21 - Oct 22, 2019
	Tufts University, Hirsh Library Instructors: Berika Williams, Allison Gofman, Kristin Lee, Kyle Monahan	Oct 21 - Oct 22, 2019
	University of Mpumalanga,Mbombela Campus, Building 4 Instructors: Zine Sapula	Oct 22 - Oct 23, 2019
	BC Cancer Research Centre Instructors: Yuka Takemon, Bruno Grande	Oct 22 - Oct 23, 2019
	Aarhus University Instructors: Luke Johnston, Kristian Tylén Helpers: oana vuculescu	Oct 22 - Oct 23, 2019
	University of Otago - Christchurch Instructors: Matt Bixley	Oct 24 - Oct 25, 2019
	Oklahoma State University Instructors: Kay BJornen, Madison Chartier, Phillip Doehle, Clarke Iakovakis, Hua Lin Helpers: Ki Cole, Peter Hoyt, Rajendra Maharjan	Oct 24 - Oct 25, 2019
	University of Minnesota Instructors: yectli huerta, Elena Auer, Caitlin Bakker Helpers: Cody Hennesy, yectli huerta, Elena Auer, Caitlin Bakker, Jon Badalamenti, David Naughton	Oct 24 - Oct 25, 2019
	Université de Montréal Instructors: Daniel Stubbs, Nikolai Sergueev Helpers: Pier-Luc St-Onge, Bart Oldeman	Oct 24 - Oct 25, 2019
	SUNY, Oneonta Instructors: David Yakobovitch, Jacob Koehler	Oct 25 - Oct 25, 2019
	Rutgers University - Camden Instructors: Heather Ciallella, Liam Sharp, Sunil Shende	Oct 25 - Oct 26, 2019
	University of Arizona Instructors: Uwe Hilgert, Xue Pan, Sateesh Peri, Travis Struck Helpers: Cristian Palacios, Fernando Rios	Oct 26 - Oct 27, 2019
	Harvard University Instructors: Sawyer Newman, Kristin Lee, Kyle Monahan Helpers: Julie Goldman	Oct 28 - Oct 29, 2019
	Oklahoma State University Instructors: Kevin Dyke, Peter Hoyt Helpers: Hua Lin	Nov 1 - Nov 22, 2019
	Rochester, NY Instructors: Vratika Chaudhary, Sarah Pugachev	Nov 1 - Nov 1, 2019
	KAUST Visualization Lab Instructors: David Pugh	Nov 3 - Nov 3, 2019
	KAUST Visualization Lab Instructors: David Pugh	Nov 4 - Nov 4, 2019
	Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig Instructors: Martin Czygan, Ronny Gey	Nov 4 - Nov 5, 2019
	University of Minnesota Instructors: Chaochih Liu, Cody Hennesy, Nicholas Dunn Helpers: Cody Hennesy, Caitlin Bakker, Nicholas Dunn, Elena Auer, David Naughton	Nov 7 - Nov 8, 2019
	Central Clinical School, Monash University Instructors: Nick Wong	Nov 12 - Nov 13, 2019
	SUB Göttingen Instructors: Birgit Schmidt, Claudia Engelhardt, Timo Gnadt, Najko Jahn, Daniel Bangert, Péter Király	Nov 12 - Nov 13, 2019
	Library Carpentry, Frankfurt a.M. Instructors: Evamaria Krause, Christian Krippes, Till Sauerwein	Nov 18 - Nov 19, 2019
	Griffith University Instructors: Amanda Miotto	Nov 20 - Nov 22, 2019
	Stanford University Medicine Instructors: João Rodrigues, Jake Lever	Nov 21 - Nov 21, 2019
	KNVM Division Microbial Typing Instructors: Anita Schürch, Sergio Arredondo Alonso	Nov 25 - Nov 26, 2019
	Centro de Física Teórica y Matemáticas Instructors: Inigo Aldazabal Mensa, Andrés Díaz-Gil, Alfonso Nunez, Bryan Zaldivar Helpers: Marcos Ramírez, Emilio Ambite, Eduardo de Cordoba	Nov 28 - Nov 29, 2019
	Oklahoma State University Instructors: Kevin Dyke, Peter Hoyt, Hua Lin Helpers: Ki Cole, Madison Chartier	Dec 16 - Dec 17, 2019
	AMOS 2020 Instructors: Damien Irving, Holger Wolff	Feb 9 - Feb 9, 2020
	Brock Digital Scholarship Lab Instructors: Daniel Brett, James Desjardins, Tim Ribaric	Feb 19 - Feb 20, 2020