Informatics Europe´s Bulletin - October 2016

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	Informatics Europe’s Bulletin October 2016

	Dear Member Representative, We are happy to send you the latest Informatics Europe bulletin, our bi-monthly newsletter for members. In this issue: ECSS 2016 Less Than a Month Away Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads Annual General Assembly Working Group on Informatics Education Women in Informatics Research and Education Informatics Represented at the Scientific Council of the ERC Input into Horizon 2020 Interim Evaluation New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform Association News Membership Milestone! New Members Board Meetings ECSS 2016 Less Than a Month Away Registration continues for the 12th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2016) in Budapest, 24-26 October, hosted by the Faculty of Informatics of the Eötvös Loránd University. This year`s edition zooms in on the theme: Informatics Driving the Digital World. Many new members have taken advantage of our special ECSS offer when joining Informatics Europe. We look forward to meeting them in Budapest and welcoming them to Informatics Europe! If you have not yet registered for ECSS 2016, you can still do so on the ECSS website. Please be aware that October is a busy tourist season in Budapest, so make sure to make hotel bookings early. A list of recommended hotels is available on the ECSS website. Quick links: Speakers Advanced Program Registration Accommodation Venue Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads The traditional and popular Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Departments Heads will take place on Monday, 24 October, dedicated to the topic: Working in a multidisciplinary environment: opportunities and pitfalls. Chaired by Prof. Mehdi Jazayeri, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, the workshop’s full program is online on the ECSS website. The workshop is a unique networking forum for deans and department heads, new and experienced, to learn from each other. It focuses on concrete issues and practical solutions, and is facilitated by prominent leaders in the field. Quick links: Workshop program Registration Annual General Assembly The Informatics Europe Annual General Assembly will take place in Budapest, 25 October, as part of ECSS 2016. In case you are not personally attending the meeting, a colleague may represent your department/institution and vote. Federated members have one single vote. Main agenda items include: 2016 activity report; 2015 financial report and external financial audit; intermediate financial report; budget 2017 and Board elections. Two board members, Gérard Berry, Inria, and Anthony Finkelstein, The Alan Turing Institute, are ending their term at the end of 2016. Informatics Europe thanks them for their strong contributions over the past years. The Board is proposing two candidates for election (term 2017-2018): Michael Caspersen, Aarhus University, Denmark Hannes Werthner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria In addition, independent candidacies can still be put forward. They should be sent to the Secretary General as soon as possible. Working Group on Informatics Education The Committee on European Computing Education (jointly with ACM Europe) has finalised its study on the status of Informatics education in schools in Europe. The final report summarizing the main findings and recommendations will be published in the next months. For more information on the activities of the working group, check out our website. Women in Informatics Research and Education The ‘Women in Informatics Research and Education Working Group’ (WIRE) is preparing a new edition of its popular best practice booklet offering deans and department heads tips and recommendations for increasing the participation of women as both students and faculty members. The booklet will be issued later this year to all Informatics Europe members. The WIRE Working Group is also setting up a network of national contacts who are active in groups or associations promoting gender balance in Informatics at a national level. There is a lot to be gained in exchanging and co-ordinating experiences among countries. If you know a suitable candidate for your country, please contact Jane Hillston, Chair of the WIRE Working Group. Informatics Represented at the Scientific Council of the ERC The European Commisson has appointed Professor Kurt Mehlhorn as a new member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC). Kurt Mehlhorn is Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany. Together with ACM Europe, Informatics Europe has long been advocating that Informatics needs to be represented in its own right at the ERC Scientific Council. The Saarbrücken Informatics Campus is a federated member of Informatics Europe. Input into Horizon 2020 Interim Evaluation The Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) met with the European Commission (EC) to provide input into the Horizon 2020 interim evaluation and engage in a dialogue with the Commission on the topic. The rapport of the meeting with Carlos Moedas (Commissioner DG Research and Innovation) and Robert-Jan Smits (Director-General DG Research and Innovation) is available here. ISE is an association of European learned societies from several field of science and humanities, of which Informatics Europe has been an official member since 2015. New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform Current openings on the Informatics Europe online Job Platform: Tenure Track Professor in Machine Learning - Aalto University Faculty Positions in Computer and Communication Science - EPFL Full Professor of Distributed Systems - Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt 2 open PhD Candidate/Associate Researcher (m/f) Positions in the Areas "Context-Adaptive Systems" and "Data-Intensive Systems" - University of Duisburg-Essen Postdoctoral researcher in Program Specification and Verification - Imperial College London Tenure-track Assistant Professor (Faculty of Informatics) - Università della Svizzera Italiana Assistant/Associate Professorship in Software Engineering - IT University of Copenhagen Your department/institute can advertise open positions on the Informatics Europe job platform too. Extend your search to attract the best. The job service is free of charge for our members. Association News Membership Milestone! Informatics Europe is happy to announce that it has reached the 100 members milestone. With 12 new members joining over the past few weeks, Informatics Europe continues to grow, giving us more clout and widening the depth and breadth of our members' exchange. Check out our current member list. New Members We are happy to welcome the following new members: Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia University of Ghent, Belgium Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Università degli Studi "Aldo Moro", Italy University of Maribor, Slovenia Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain CODDII, Conferencia de Directores y Decanos de Ingeniería Informática, Spain BeNeFri Computer Science, Federated Member including the Institutes of Computer Science from the Universities of Bern, Neuchatel and Fribourg, Switzerland Board Meetings The Informatics Europe Board last met on 30 September via Skype for discussions on: ECSS 2016, closer collaboration with ERCIM, membership drive, Report CECE Informatics in Schools. Next Board meetings: Wednesday, October 26, 17:00-19:30, Budapest, face-to-face meeting Friday, November 25, 16:00-17:00, Skype Don`t forget: as a member representative, you are welcome to submit agenda topics and to participate as a guest in Board meetings. Let us know!



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