Partnership on The Carpentries

Build Data Skills in Your Community: Become a Carpentries Partner

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Build Data Skills Where You Work

Modern research, teaching, and professional practice increasingly rely on data and computational skills. Yet many people are asked to work with code, data, and collaborative technologies without formal training. The Carpentries helps address this gap.

Through hands-on workshops, Instructor training, and collaborative lesson development, our global community supports organisations in building practical skills for working with data and code while fostering a culture of open, reproducible research.

Stories from The Carpentries Community: Why Skill-Building, Teaching, and Community Matter for Open Science

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A Community Teaching Data Skills for Open Science

The Carpentries is a global community dedicated to teaching foundational data and computational skills for research and professional practice. Our programs help people work more effectively with data, code, and software while supporting open, reproducible science.

Today, the community includes:

5,405 certified Instructors
185 Instructor Trainers
4,965 workshops taught in 72 countries

But these numbers only tell part of the story.

The real impact of The Carpentries comes from the people who teach, learn, and collaborate through our programs. Through our Partnership program, organisations join a global network focused on building local capacity for teaching data skills.

Why Partner with The Carpentries? Building Skills, Community, and Global Impact

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why Partner with The Carpentries

Across research institutions, universities, and libraries worldwide, the need for strong data and computational skills continues to grow.

The Carpentries Partnership program helps organisations meet this need by building sustainable training capacity within their own communities. Rather than relying solely on external training, partners develop local and regional Instructors, contribute to shared lesson materials, and connect with a global community of educators and researchers.

Through this model, organisations are able to strengthen both their technical capacity and their teaching culture.

Our People, Our Impact: How The Carpentries Community Multiplies Skills Worldwide

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Our People, Our Impact

The impact of The Carpentries has always been rooted in people.

Across universities, research institutes, libraries, and organisations around the world, community members are working together to build capacity for teaching foundational data and computational skills. At the center of this work are the people who teach, maintain, and build community around the programs that make our workshops possible. They then go on to introduce The Carpentries to other individuals at their institutions and empower them with the same skills. This is where the multiplier effect begins - one of the main benefits of an institutional Partnership with the Carpentries.

The Carpentries Partnership Program is Now Live!

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

After many months in the making, we are thrilled to announce that The Carpentries Partnership program is finally launching today!

This is an exciting outcome of efforts by The Carpentries Core Team and broader community to redesign our former Membership program into a program that is responsive and best meets the needs of our partnering organisations and institutions.

Over the coming weeks, we will release a series of blog posts expanding on the value of having a Partnership with The Carpentries. In this blog post we provide an outline of the service offerings that can be included in a Partnership agreement beginning today.

South Africa's North-West University Becomes Software and Data Carpentry’s first African Partner

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

In November 2014 the first large-scale Software Carpentry event was run in South Africa as part of the eResearch Africa conference in Cape Town. Since then 15 more Software, Data, and/or Library Carpentry events were run by the Southern African community across many disciplines and several institutions.

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The North-West University has been heavily involved in further developing the Southern African Carpentry community. In 2015 NWU led the development of a 12-month proposal that kicked off in April 2016 with the first South African in-person instructor training event. Since 2015 NWU has been involved in four internal Software and Data Carpentry events as well as four events run at other Southern African institutions. The university currently has five qualified instructors as well as two preparing for check-out. Instructors hail from diverse disciplines such as genomics, digital humanities, chemistry, and IT.

South Africa's North-West University Becomes Software and Data Carpentry’s first African Partner

Fri, 20 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Data Carpentry website

In November 2014 the first large-scale Software Carpentry event was run in South Africa [1] as part of the eResearch Africa conference [2] in Cape Town. Since then 15 more Software, Data, and/or Library Carpentry events were run by the Southern African community across many disciplines and several institutions [3, 4, 5].

New Joint Partnerships with Data Carpentry

Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We’ve been hearing of the interest of organizations to build local capacity for training and to be able run both Data and Software Carpentry workshops. We are excited to announce that Data Carpentry and Software Carpentry are now offering joint partnerships! These partnerships will give member organizations the benefits of running workshops from either the Software Carpentry or Data Carpentry community. At the Silver and above tiers there will also be instructor training and capacity building services provided.