TALENTUM

Pan-European Research Infrastructures (RI) are essential scientific and technological facilities that provide resources and services to scientific communities to conduct cutting-edge research. Personnel involved in such large-scale RIs need to be uniquely adept and skillful to optimally support and promote the RIs to ensure optimal uptake and outreach. Despite significant strides in the training of RI technical staff, key training modules and learning aspects remain under-addressed. TALENTUM proposes a training & up-skilling program that focuses on the ‘Health & Food’ domain, and brings together two key RIs, AnaEE-ERIC and METROFOOD-RI, in the goal of developing a ‘one-stop shop’ for training services that spans Food, Health, and Ecosystems expertise. This focus ensures that TALENTUM directly addresses a high-impact domain of societal relevance, while also providing a testbed for cross-domain transferability to other ESFRI RIs. To ensure that training also addresses transversal, human-centered, and cutting-edge skills, TALENTUM also pairs with CLARIN-ERIC and Citizen Science experts to ensure a balanced framework of competencies that will provide present and future professionals in RI the necessary arsenal of learning needed to carry out their RI-specific activities. In addition to delivering advanced training, the project will also formalise it through accreditation, certification, and micro-credentials aligned with EQF standards, ensuring recognition and portability across Europe. Moreover, TALENTUM will embed sustainability from the outset, designing fee-based and mixed funding models to guarantee continuity beyond Horizon Europe funding. In doing so, TALENTUM responds directly to the expected outcomes of the call: enhancing the technical expertise of RI staff, creating structured mobility and career opportunities across Europe, and developing a unified, accredited training service that consolidates fragmented offers into a coherent European framework.