EEFI Working Groups are currently in progress. The following topics are under consideration, please reach out if you are interested.
European Forecasting Challenge Working Group
Aim: Host a European forecasting challenge to improve science and support decision making.
EEFI Cost Action Working Group
Aim: Acquire EU COST Action funding to support networking of EEFI and a European Forecasting Challenge
General Working Group Information
Working groups provide one mechanism to bring community members together within EEFI as well as across the Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) more broadly. Working groups allow members to provide support to each other and to work on projects together. Working groups also meet to provide support to one another and share difficulties or issues or invite others to help test an application or help troubleshoot.
Working group activities depend on the interest in the group and who is willing to lead activities. Examples of previous working group outputs from the Ecological Forecasting Initiative include writing manuscripts, hosting panel presentations, creating and compiling open educational resources, writing blog posts, compiling information about funding or matchmaking resources, creating tutorials, hosting book groups, discussing new or relevant literature, developing R code for specific forecasting related tasks, submitting forecasts to the EFI NEON Forecasting Challenge, supporting workshops, developing educational resources for the classroom or for independent learning, etc.
One of the goals of EFI is to make resources available to the broader community. Here are some examples of platforms used to share working group outputs.
- EFI’s website, ecoforecast.org
- EFI’s YouTube channel, youtube.com/@ecoforecast
- EFI’s GitHub repository, github.com/eco4cast
- EFI’s QUBES open educational resources project, https://qubeshub.org/community/projects/educationworkinggroup
- EFI’s Zotero Bibliography, https://www.zotero.org/groups/2545778/ecological_forecasting_initiative_bibliography/library
- EFI’s Slack group
- Announcements in EFI’s newsletter that goes out every 4-6 weeks,
Please work with EFI Community Manager Jody Peters to make sure your working group material is shared with the EFI community.
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