Geo-INQUIRE Highlights of Training Events, Workshops and Summer Schools

The  Geo-INQUIRE project unites more than 50 Earth Science partners to provide access to selected data, products, and services, spanning Virtual Access (VA) to Earth Science databases and Transnational Access (TA) to software, high-performance computing (HPC) systems, laboratories and instruments. VA and TA are complemented by an extensive training program, including workshops, summer schools, and training events.

This presentation highlights the project’s training achievements and resources available to the scientific community. To date, we have organised more than 50 events, including seminars, online training sessions, workshops, and two fully funded summer schools, one held in 2024 in Greece (focusing on GNSS, In-SAR, faults modelling, and FAIR principles) and another in October 2025 in Athens (focusing on Volcanology, Marine Biology, and Seismology). Geo-INQUIRE attracted more than 2,500 participants from nearly 90 countries. Specifically, the training program targeted Early Career Scientists (ECS), and whilst many senior scientists also participated, on average, 40% of attendees were ECS. We achieved our goal of at least 40% female engagement and drew approximately 25% of participants from European “widening” and “associated” countries. 

All online training and seminars were recorded and are accessible at www.geo-inquire.eu. For selected workshops and most online events, recordings of key lectures and training materials are also available online, and MOOC-style access is provided for summer school materials. Geo-INQUIRE offers a broad spectrum of training modalities: from FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) training series to in-depth HPC software training (e.g., earthquake simulations with SeisSol, tsunami simulations with HySEA); from demonstrations of the European Fault-Source Model 2020 (EFSM20) to the Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility (SLSMF) API; from the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) data portal trainings to Observatories & Research Facilities for European Seismology (ORFEUS) and ShakeMap workshops; from recordings of fibre-optic sensing (DAS) lectures to hands-on sessions on the Geo-INQUIRE Simulation Data Lake.

We highlight this training database as a cornerstone project achievement, with the broad participation underscoring the need for a multidisciplinary geoscience training platform for young scientists in Europe and beyond. Looking ahead, Geo-INQUIRE will host several upcoming events (some with hybrid remote participation): a GFZ Summer School in June; a Geohazard and Tsunami Risk Workshop in Capri in early June; and the first SeisSol User Meeting and Training in mid-June in Munich. The Geo-INQUIRE website also hosts reports from TA projects, illustrating how VA-provided software can be utilized. Links to all VAs are available at www.geo-inquire.eu.

The Geo-INQUIRE project is funded by the European Commission under project number 101058518 within the HORIZON-INFRA-2021-SERV-01 call.