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There is also a large educational (mostly utilising the faulkes telescopes) and amateur involvement planned in the followup of these transient events, to assist in compiling light curves and increase the public evolvement and interest.  We need a large sample of well-exposed (S/N$\sim$20$-$50), medium-dispersion (R$\sim$500$-$1000) spectra, over a wide range of classes and magnitudes, to build classification training sets, in order for our (Random Forest) machine learning algorithms (discussed in Section~\ref{class}) to perform well for the Gaia spectra for the remainder of the mission. Therefore we aim to obtain 1.5-4m telescope time to build this training set. It is important to invest time at the beginning of the Gaia mission to understand and characterise the transients that will be discovered with Gaia, so that we can optimise the process, and ensure that the rest of the mission is as productive as possible. We also intend to archive and release our spectroscopic classifications promptly after processing each night'***INVALID BYTE SEQUENCE HERE******INVALID BYTE SEQUENCE HERE***s night's  observing.