The first of the schools ran in August 2016 at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. It was a huge success, delivering the school to 67 students from over 30 countries. The second school, also based at ICTP, in July 2017 was a similar success, with an additional advanced school in the week following it.  Schools continued to take place at ICTP – in 2018 and 2019 and virtually in 2020 and 2021 with 123 and 76 participants respectively.  The latest school took a hybrid format with 15 attending in person and 46 participating virtually.

Trieste 2022 was the 14th school and almost 800 students have completed schools on five continents. This corresponds to roughly USD 650k worth of teaching. It is remarkable that all of this so far has been achieved using an entirely volunteer network.

Regional Schools

In December 2017, the first regionally run example of the schools was held in São Paulo, Brazil with 30 students attending from South and Central America. This represented an important step as roughly half of the material was delivered by instructors from the region, demonstrating a mechanism for how the schools will grow in the future. In 2018 schools ran in Trieste, São Paulo and Kigali, Rwanda – the first African school. In 2019 regional schools ran in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and San José, Costa Rica. In 2020 a school ran in Pretoria, South Africa.  In 2021 a virtual school was organised again in Pretoria and between May and July 2021 an online and self-paced course was run again in South Africa.  This self-paced 3-month course was repeated in 2022, jointly organised by São Paulo, Brazil and Pretoria, South Africa and hosted 72 participants.

• Trieste Summer School 31 July-11 August 2023
• South Africa – online and self-paced May-June 2023
• Data Atlanta 2022
• Trieste Summer School 11-22 July 2022 – an ICTP Hybrid Event
• South Africa/São Paolo Online & Self-paced 9 May – 15 July 2022
• Trieste Online & Self-paced 6 Sept to 5 Nov 2021
• South Africa 2021 Online and Self-Paced 3rd May to 9th July 2021
• #DataPretoria2020, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 13- 24 January 2020
• #DataSanJosé19, Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología (CeNAT), San José, 2-13 December 2019
• Advanced Workshop 2019, ICTP, Trieste, 19-23 August 2019
• Data Steward School 2019, ICTP, Trieste, 5-16 August 2019
• #DataTrieste 2019, ICTP, Trieste, 5-16 August 2019
• Addis Ababa 2019, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, 17-28 June 2019
• Research Data Winter School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 12–15 June 2018
• #DataTrieste 2018, CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, ICTP, Trieste, 6-17 August 2018
• CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Applied Workshops, ICTP, Trieste, 20-24 August 2018
• #DataKigali 2018, CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, ICTP, Kigali, Rwanda, 22 October-2 November 2018
• #DataSaoPaulo 2018, CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science, ICTP, São Paulo, 3-14 December 2018
• #DataSaoPaulo 2017, CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School, ICTP, São Paulo, 4-15 December 2017
• CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Applied Workshops, ICTP, Trieste, 24-28 July 2017
• #DataTrieste 2017, CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School, ICTP, Trieste, 10-21 July 2017
• #DataTrieste 2016, CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School, ICTP, Trieste, 1-12 August 2016