Ghent University has the ambition of playing a leading role in training and skill development activities in the field of silicon photonics under the framework of ePIXfb – the European Silicon Photonics Alliance (https://epixfab.eu). These training and skill development activities will go all the way from ideation to testing of silicon photonic ICs through a newly established silicon photonics experience center at Ghent University. More specifically, each year a 3-day training course will be offered multiple times at the experience center. Each episode of the course will provide industry, especially those involved in PIC-based product development, with the basic technical skills in ideating, designing, fabricating, and testing SiPh PICs. The course will cover various forms of SiPh such as thin SOI, thick SOI, LPCVD SiN, PECVD SiN, and Ge- on-Si. The training will provide hands-on training to: Determine the right SiPh technology platform & design environment for a given application Design a SiPh chip and associated key fabrication steps Develop test-beds and test of SiPh PICs for various applications.