Ben Maathuis and Tesfaye Korme

MESA Training Contractor

The MESA Training Program:

Training related to PUMA 2015

MESA Training Contractor

12th EUMETSAT User Forum in AfricaKigali, Rwanda

Session 2, Tuesday 13 September 2016

Layout of presentation

� Background

� Objectives

� DE based courses

� Onsite Training� Onsite Training

� Curriculum for system administration and application training

� Facilities at the Training Centres

� Status Onsite Training

� Onsite training execution

� Concluding remarks

Background� MESA Training Program started 2 years ago:

� Established a Training Office in Addis Ababa, with 3 full time staff and

additional staff from other Training Consortium members

� Established an overall course curriculum which is based on MESA

Training Needs Analysis, consisting of:Training Needs Analysis, consisting of:

� Distance Education, offering:

� generic technical courses;

� dedicated thematic courses;

� communication / policy oriented courses (having onsite component).

� Classroom Training, offering:

� system administration training;

� environmental thematic courses using MESA-Station (eStation2.0);

� meteorological thematic course using MESA-PUMA2015 stations.

DE based coursesDE courses specially developed to support the METEO community are:

� EUMETCast, DE course has been conducted number of times (in FR

and EN), also staff from METEO community participated.

� System Administration for AMESD Station Operations (basic and more

advanced):

� The purpose of course(s) is to provide (new) participants with the

knowledge necessary to continue operations and manage the existing

stations established under the AMESD programme;

� Till now about 85 participants registered and retrieved course

materials (in FR and EN) from Learning Management System (LMS).

� Supporting MESA Station Mobilization & Operation:

� providing the necessary background materials (by Supply Lot # 1) to

familiarize the responsible staff prior to station mobilization;

� Various downloads of materials (in FR and EN) from LMS.

Onsite training

� Onsite course has a duration of 5 days, maximum number of participants

is 22 persons/course.

� Executed at WMO Regional Training Centres in Africa:

� Meteorological Training Institute, South African Weather Service

(SAWS) (Pretoria-South Africa);(SAWS) (Pretoria-South Africa);

� Institute for Meteorological Training & Research (IMTR) (Nairobi-

Kenya);

� l'Ecole Africaine de la Météorologie et de l'Aviation Civile (EAMAC)

(Niamey-Niger);

� Mauritius Meteorological Service (MMS) (Vacoas-Mauritius).

� Onsite training has already been successfully executed at 3 centres,

SAWS is pending.

Curriculum System Administration PUMA2015

For system administration there is a focus on system maintenance and

troubleshooting, with more detailed discussion on: UPS, computer (keys and

disks), antenna, system synchronization, backup and restore, remote access

(VNCViewer and FTP) and support, use of Tuleap, installation of new RPMs.

Curriculum Application Training

� Overview of the PUMA2015 System and use of the meteorological

display system (Synergie)

� Exercises on the software functionality, with focus on creation of

customized forecasts (validity period 24 to 30 hours) for end users like:

� Civil Aviation Industry: � Civil Aviation Industry:

� Local Flights (<25,000 feet);

� International Flight (>= 33,000 <=45,000 feet).

� Marine Industry:

� Navigation, Entertainment;

� Transport;

� Fishery.

� General Public.

� Area of interest is based on participants place of origin.

Generic facilities at the training centres

EKU with appropriate

license subscription

Training centre configuration User Training

Training Centre configuration System Administration

Status training / training centres

� Training of Trainers (ToT) on MESA / PUMA System Administration was

combined to enhance sustainability;

� Trainees participating in ToT have been actively participating in

development of curriculum for onsite training;

� Course curriculum is including hands-on exercises to gain further � Course curriculum is including hands-on exercises to gain further

experiences with new system / application;

� Training centres now have their own (pool of) trained staff who can

provide training, Training Contractor (TC) mainly responsible for

administrative issues;

� MoU in place between TC and Training Centres;

� Currently use is made of 3 Training Centres, SAWS is pending.

Status onsite training

Onsite Training related to PUMA2015

FR EN no. participants

Curriculum Design PUMA system / application dual dual 10

Training of Trainers System Admin 1 1 20

Application 1 1 40Application 1 1 40

Users Training System Admin 1 2 60

(conducted till 09/2016) Application 1 20

Users Training System Admin 2 3 100

(planned till 06/2017) Application 2 3 100

No. trainees: 350

Onsite training execution

l'Ecole Africaine de la Météorologie et de

l'Aviation Civile (EAMAC)

Antenna in the middle is used for

EUMETCast reception

Onsite training execution - EAMAC

Training cluster at EAMAC and PUMA2015

System Administration course ongoing

Mr. NDOYE Bassirou, PUMA2015

system administration trainer, signing

the course certificates

Onsite training execution - IMTR

Arrival of equipment at start of ToT

course at the training centre and

detailed inspection by beneficiaries

Participants during ToT, defining the

content of the system administration

onsite training

Onsite training execution - IMTR

Pointing of antenna, part of the system

administration training using spare

antenna at KMD

Participants reporting on weather

forecasts (group assignment conducted

each day) in training room

Training material preparation

Training Office in Addis now also equipped with station. Will be used to prepare more

training materials, especially for self-training. All will be made available in the LMS.

Concluding remarks� Soft copies of all relevant training materials are provided during onsite

training, all materials are also available in LMS (even prior to training);

� More training material (exercises) under preparation, using TC system;

� PUMA2015 stations at Training Centres work according to expectations;

� Training Centres have appropriate EKU license and are receiving � Training Centres have appropriate EKU license and are receiving

necessary services to conduct the User Application training;

� Foreseen / planned onsite training events to be executed without any

major problems / issues;

� DE based (advanced) training and LMS support also continue

accordingly without any issues;

� Targets as specified in MESA Capacity Building Strategy ToR can be

achieved.

Concluding remarks� Hardware (including data license) and software, training materials,

curriculum and training methodology have been successfully transferred

to Regional Training Centres;

� PUMA 2015 trainings have become part of the short-term trainings

offered at the WMO Training Centres;

� Regional Capacity on PUMA Stations administration and application has

been built through MESA Training;

� Integrating of both PUMA and MESA Systems Administration training has

provided wider technical skills to system administrators that enables

them to troubleshoot both systems in case of need;

� Advanced courses could be offered at the Training Centres based on the

infrastructures and training curriculum put in place and can be further

utilized during GMES.