One of the main objectives of the FIDELIS project is to “Strengthen the upskilling of repositories and expansion of the Network through an active training and support programme”.
To achieve these objectives, FIDELIS will offer three different types of support and training:
- Support for the adoption of solutions - A mix of financial support and expert guidance will support repositories to implement and adopt good practices, tools, services, and other solutions to increase their trustworthiness.
- Mentoring programme - FIDELIS will connect mentors with mentees who they can support on specific topics, bridging gaps in the current landscape and building the peer-to-peer support attitude that the FIDELIS network will thrive on.
- Open training activities - A series of different events which are open for all to join, designed to share and teach about different topics and solutions relevant to the repository community. These activities are flexible to take on any shape or format and content, focusing in some cases specifically on repository management and governance or technical topics.
These activities may also be organised in collaboration with other projects, such as EOSC EDEN and other projects in the EOSC context, to draw on their expertise or support the development of their new solutions.
The open training activities will be communicated on the website and will be open for everyone to register for. To keep informed about new upcoming events, make sure to sign up for the newsletter!
Support for the adoption of solutions
This type of support aims to support repositories in adopting solutions that will improve their trustworthiness. This mix of financial support and expert guidance will introduce best practices, tools, services, and other solutions and show how repositories can get to work to implement these for their own organisation. The solutions that will be offered will be curated to match with community needs, such as those indicated in the landscape survey. We will also align with ongoing developments in the landscape and other projects and initiatives to establish useful bidirectional feedback loops that help both repositories advance and developers improve their work.
For each solution that is selected to be offered, a clear description of the support will be provided, including a description of the expertise that will be shared (and by whom), the work that is expected to be done by participants, any expected skills or knowledge participants should already have, and the final results that repositories will gain from their participation. The financial support that is part of these offers will be calculated based on the amount of effort expected by each participant. All of this information will be clearly presented and opportunities to ask questions will be organised as well.
In 2025, FIDELIS will run a pilot of this type of support open to our early adopters and provisional network members. The other two instances of the support for the adoption of solutions will run through open calls that will be published in April 2026 and March 2027. Mark your calendars and make sure to sign up for the newsletter to be informed when the calls are coming!
Mentoring Programme
With the mentoring programme, FIDELIS aims to bring together different people in the community to support each other in advancing certain skills or tackling specific challenges. This approach of peer-to-peer support is one of the core elements the FIDELIS Network will thrive on, and it is an attitude that we will foster already in the project.
More information will come on the mentoring programme and the important information around participating in the programme. This will all be published on the website before the calls for participation are launched.
FIDELIS will run two instances of the mentoring programme through open calls that will be published in February 2026 and January 2027. Mark your calendars and make sure to sign up for the newsletter to be informed when the calls are coming!