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Looking to strengthen data and computational skills in your organisation?
The Carpentries Partnership program offers:
• Workshops
• Instructor Training
• Lesson development training
• Professional development courses
• Support for building communities of practice.Join a global community with 5,413 Instructors and 4,968 workshops in 72 countries.
Become a partner, renew your partnership, or schedule a consultation.
Learn more: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/become-a-carpentries-partner/
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What does The Carpentries actually do?
We help researchers build practical data and computational skills and we train people to teach those skills to others.
That approach has helped grow a global community:
• 5,405 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬
• 185 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬
• 4,965 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐢𝐧 72 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.But the real impact is personal.
“Changed my career trajectory in a very positive way.”
— 𝘋𝘳. 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘤𝘬, 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳“It has made me a more confident instructor of coding and coding-adjacent skills.”
— 𝘋𝘳. 𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢 𝘒𝘪𝘴, 𝘓𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘳, 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘖𝘬𝘭𝘢𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢Our new Partnership Program helps organisations support these kinds of outcomes through workshops, instructor training, lesson development, and community building.
Read the stories from our community: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/who-are-the-carpentries/
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Why do organisations partner with The Carpentries? To build sustainable training capacity for data and computational skills.
Our global community now includes:
72 countries with workshops
5,382 instructors
185 Instructor Trainers
4,950 workshops delivered.Partnerships can include combinations of:
- Instructor Training seats
- Collaborative Lesson Development training seats
- professional development in digital workforce skills
- consultation and support for building local communities of practice.The goal is not just to run workshops. It is to help organisations grow their own training communities. Read more in our latest blog post: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/why-partner-with-the-carpentries/
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Our impact starts with people. Behind every Carpentries workshop is a community of Instructor Trainers, Instructors, Maintainers, and many other contributors working together to build data and computational skills worldwide. 🌍
Instructor Trainers prepare new Instructors in evidence-based teaching practices. Those Instructors then teach workshops that reach hundreds of learners. That’s the multiplier effect at the heart of The Carpentries.
Read the blog: https://carpentries.org/blog/2026/04/how-the-carpentries-community-multiplies-skills-worldwide/
🚀 We’ve launched a new Partnership program to help organisations build sustainable training capacity. Join our upcoming info sessions to learn more:
👉 Session 1: 21 April 2026, 16:30 UTC (Register and find your local time here: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/745/)
👉 Session 2: 22 April 2026, 09:00 UTC (Register and find your local time here: https://pretix.carpentries.org/community-events/community-sessions/746/)
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📢 #Opportunity: Applications are open for the Aspen Policy Academy’s Building Nonprofit Advocacy Capacity short course! This free, part-time, virtual course is perfect for public interest organizations looking to scale their impact and reach new stakeholders.
🗓️ Dates: May 11–15, 2025
⌚ Schedule: Classes from 9-11am PT / 12-2pm ET daily
⏰ Application Deadline: April 5, 2026, at 11:59pm PT🔗 Learn more and apply here: https://aspenpolicyacademy.org/program/building-nonprofit-advocacy-capacity/
#AspenPolicyAcademy #PolicyTraining #NonprofitLeaders #Advocacy #PublicPolicy #ProfessionalDevelopment #FreeCourse #VirtualLearning #NonprofitResource
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Also attending the same conference in Bologna, Italy, is The Carpentries Director of Workshops and Training, SherAaron Hurt.
She is a member of the #csvconf 2025 organising team, working alongside other amazing open and data science colleagues to put together this year's programme: csvconf.com/schedule.html.
Well done SherAaron and your team! 👏
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This has been a busy week of public community engagement for various members of The Carpentries Core Team!
First off, our Executive Director @drkariljordan is at #CSVCONF, sharing how The Carpentries is collaborating with GREI (Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative) to strengthen researcher & librarian skills in data/software management, ensuring high-quality, shareable deposits across repositories.
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The lesson is aimed at post-graduate students, early career researchers or junior Research Software Engineers (#RSEs) who want to develop software to support their research using established best practices. They have foundational knowledge of Python, version control and using software tools from the command line shell (as might be obtained through participation in a Software Carpentry workshop).
It is also suitable for researchers or scientists who have foundational software training but wish to refresh, reinforce, or improve their skills and practices in the wider context of FAIR research, sharing, and writing software for open and reproducible research.
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📢 In late 2024, we launched a collaboration between The Carpentries and the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), aiming to explore how generalist data repositories such as #Dataverse, #Dryad, #Figshare, Mendeley Data, Open Science Framework, #Vivli, and #Zenodo might be more intentionally woven into the data skills we teach. 🌟
In the process, we also asked ourselves some important questions:
❓ What would it look like if open data repositories weren’t just add-ons at the end of a workflow, but upfront teaching concepts in our lessons?
❓ How can we position generalist repositories as active components in retrieving and processing datasets?
❓How can we give researchers the tools not just to write clean code, but to publish their work in ways that make it reusable and citable by others?Learn about the important steps we have taken in this collaboration toward co-creating new lesson content: https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/update-on-the-carpentries-and-grei-collaboration/ 👏