Dear colleagues, The cold winter days are the perfect opportunity for you to brush-up your IPv6 knowledge or learn more about the RIPE Database to manage your resources more efficiently. The RIPE NCC’s training team will be delivering face-to-face training courses in Amsterdam, London, Sofia, Amman, Düsseldorf, Riga, Tirana, Muscat, Stockholm, Dushanbe, Manamah, Minsk, and Bern in the coming months. The membership fee covers all our training courses, so that means there is no additional cost to attend. Here are the training courses we currently deliver: - LIR Training Course - RIPE Database Training Course - Basic IPv6 Training Course - IPv6 Security Training Course - Measurements Tools Workshop - Advanced IPv6 Training Course (two days) - BGP Operations and Security Training Course (two days) To find out when we'll be in your city and to register for an upcoming training course, go to: https://lirportal.ripe.net/training/courses For more information, see: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/courses ------------ Last call to participate in the RIPE NCC Certified Professionals pilot exam ------------ Over the past few months, we’ve invited the community to test our very first Certified Professionals exam – RIPE Database Associate. We will be closing the pilot at the end of 2019. If you’ve been planning to get your RIPE Database expertise certified, do take a look at: https://www.ripe.net/support/certified-professionals ------------ Can't make it to a training course? Learn online! ------------ We offer online webinars that you can attend from home or the office: https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online/webinars The RIPE NCC Academy is a virtual learning environment where you can complete online courses. We offer courses on being a Local Internet Registry, a RIPE Database Expert and an Introduction to IPv6. The RIPE NCC Academy will be closed to users from 2 January until 26 January 2020, while we update course material and improve its features. If you are currently following a course on the Academy, please make sure to complete it in 2019! Learning on the Academy is open to everyone and is free of charge: https://academy.ripe.net Whether it's in person or online, we hope to see you soon! Rumy Spratley-Kanis Training Services Manager