initial draft SIG education pages

sites/main-site/src/content/special-interest-groups/education/index.md

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+---
+title: Introduction
+subtitle: 'Community of researchers promoting the inclusion of Nextflow into academic curricula, developing open-source educational materials'
+groupName: Education
+leads:
+  - lescai: Francesco Lescai
+  - msantorsola: Mariangela Santorsola
+  - LorenzoS96: Lorenzo Sola
+
+pipelines:
+  - sarek
+  - rnaseq
+  - raredisease
+  - hgtseq
+---
+
+# Introduction
+
+This interest group aims at promoting the inclusion of Nextflow into academic curricula, developing open-source educational materials, and fostering best practices in teaching and assessment involving Nextflow and nf-core.
+
+# Objectives and Activities
+
+- Develop and share open-source educational resources to integrate Nextflow into higher education curricula across various disciplines.
+- Identify and implement best practices in teaching and assessment involving Nextflow, grounded in recognised pedagogical frameworks such as constructive alignment.
+- Create application-specific teaching materials focused on nf-core pipelines to ensure instruction is relevant and practical.
+- Identify and promote best practices for data simulation, aimed at designing problem-based educational experiences that benefit of narrative-driven data scenarios.
+- Build a community of Nextflow users involved in education to facilitate the exchange of ideas, resources, experiences, and create opportunities for networking and collaboration.
+- Identify and pursue opportunities for grant applications and funding dedicated to advancing Nextflow and bioinformatics education initiatives.
+
+Initial activities will involve a monthly meeting with developers and users, to identify priorities and most important needs, as well as draw an action plan. Future activities may include presentations and discussions from topic-experts, as well as tutorials, workshops, and demo-days of nf-core pipelines to run tutorials developed within this group.

sites/main-site/src/content/special-interest-groups/education/meetings.md

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+---
+title: 'Meetings'
+subtitle: 'When and where the Education group meets'
+groupName: Education
+---
+
+# Meeting schedule
+
+Details coming soon!

src/env.d.ts

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+/// <reference path="../.astro/types.d.ts" />