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Working Groups: IVS Working Group on Education and Training

Purpose The IVS Working Group on Education and Training (WG6) was established by the IVS Directing Board at its meeting in Bordeaux on 23 March 2009. The work of WG6 is reviewed by the IVS Board at its regular meetings.

The mandate of the WG6 comprises the following tasks:

1. to establish contacts to education institutions in geodesy, geosciences, and astrometry worldwide with the aim to raise interest in geodetic and astrometric VLBI among students.
2. to develop education material that can be distributed to education institutions.
3. to seek funding and to develp a concept and prepare the organization of training in form of for example IVS summer schools for master and PhD students.

The WG6 is chaired by Rüdiger Haas; other initial members are Oleg Titov, Hayo Hase, Bjørn Engen, Johannes Böhm, Dirk Behrend, and Alan Whitney. Further candidate members will be asked later to support the group. It is expected that a WG report will be compiled and submitted to the IVS DB on the first IVS DB in 2011.

Working Group Members
Rüdiger Haas (Chair), Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
Dirk Behrend, NVI, Inc./NASA GSFC, USA
Johannes Böhm, TU Vienna, Austria
Hayo Hase, BKG, Germany
Bjørn Engen, NMA, Norway
Lucia Plank, TU Vienna, Austria
Oleg Titov, Geoscience Australia, Australia
Alan Whitney, MIT Haystack Observatory, USA

Reports The final report of WG6 was accepted at the September 7, 2013 Directing Board meeting and the Working Group was closed. The final report was published as special report in the IVS 2013 Annual Report.

Outcome With the closing of WG6, the Directing Board created the permanent IVS Committee on VLBI Education and Training at its meeting on September 7, 2013.