Informatics Europe Bulletin: ECSS 2022 Program Updates – Register & Get Ready!

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	Informatics Europe Bulletin - September 2022

	Dear Members, Welcome back from the summer break! We are in full gear getting ready for the upcoming IE events in September and October – read on for full details. Also don’t miss our early bird and exclusive member offers to join ECSS and Academic Leadership Development course: we look forward to meeting you in our upcoming activities! In this issue: ECSS 2022 – Latest News about the Program Higher Education Data Portal: Member Exclusive Updates European Statistics Awards Programme Kicked Off Supporting Digital Humanism and Other Activities for IE Community Association News Board Meetings Executive Committee Meetings Don’t Miss These IE Activities New Informatics Europe Members New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform ECSS 2022 – Latest News about the Program Let’s join forces and make a difference to the workforce for the digital transformation! Come and exchange your knowledge and experience with leaders and decision-makers in informatics at our annual European Computer Science Summit (ECSS), this year in Hamburg between 24 and 26 October! Latest highlights of our conference program: Leaders Workshop Digital transformation does not only change the way we work, but also the way we think about work. What can academic and research informatics leaders do to provide a motivating and enriching culture at the workplace? How can they devise processes for onboarding, retention and continuous productivity of the workforce in their respective institutions? Join our workshop: get and share unique take-home messages and best practice examples to further enhance your digital dexterity as leaders! Professional Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers Want to dive into the range of career alternatives available for early career researchers in the age of digital transformation? Come and exchange with industry and academic research leaders! As early career researchers, you have the option to join only the workshop or the entire ECSS with a reduced fee. Limited number of travel grants are also available. Find out more here. Open Science and the Future of Informatics Research Dissemination Open Science – a dream or a reality? This year at the session jointly organized with our member National Informatics Associations, we will discuss about the future and challenges of informatics research dissemination. A selection of background materials are now available on our workshop homepage and you are invited to help us customize the workshop: please share and fill in this pre-event questionnaire with your colleagues on or before 9 October. We look forward to discussing with you the results during the workshop! Make the most out of your Informatics Europe membership! The networking and exchange opportunities inherent to ECSS are highly valued by our community. Your institution and IE count on your presence at ECSS. Register now and no worries for unforeseeable events! We can transfer your registration to another name when needed. Details about rates and conditions are available here. Book your accommodation early – check out our limited special hotel offers here. Don’t forget: as an exclusive benefit to IE members, you can showcase your institute virtually on a special section of our ECSS 2022 website called Members Spotlight. Physical materials can also be distributed at the ECSS venue in Hamburg. Follow the instructions here to get in the spotlight! We look forward to meeting you all at ECSS 2022 in Hamburg! Higher Education Data Portal: Member Exclusive Updates Three years since we have launched our Higher Education Data Portal, we celebrate the data collection of higher education in informatics, covering over 20 European countries and 10 years of data, such as statistics of students awarded at different degree levels, and comparative analysis of certain key academic positions and salaries. We express our gratitude to everyone who has contributed to our Portal, which has become one of the most valued IE services. Our Data Portal is one of a kind in Europe. The first five-year dataset is publicly available whereas IE members can enjoy the exclusive access to our full dataset and much-needed data about academic salaries after a quick registration on our IE website with your institutional email address. You can also enable or accelerate projects and collaborations of informatics research and education in Europe by contributing to our data collection, analysis and reporting. Please contact Svetlana Tikhonenko or join our permanent data analysis and reporting working group. European Statistics Awards Programme Kicked Off On behalf of Eurostat: the statistical office of the European Union, we have the pleasure to announce the launch of the European Statistics Awards Programme, with competitions in the fields of nowcasting and web intelligence. The main goal of the competition is to discover promising methodologies and data sources that could be used to improve the production of European statistics. Within the awards programme, which will run until the end of 2025, Eurostat is planning three yearly rounds of competitions on nowcasting. The European Statistics Awards for Web Intelligence will be launched this autumn. Winner of the competitions could win up to EUR 24,000. To learn more about the competition, time plan, evaluation and awards, please visit the competition website at https://statistics-awards.eu/. Supporting Digital Humanism and Other Activities for IE Community Two postgraduate students from our member institutes: TU Wien's Faculty of Informatics & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Department of Computer Science received our scholarships to attend the Digital Humanism Summer School 2022 this September in Vienna, Austria. The Summer School is organized by the DIGHUM: the Digital Humanism initiative supported and co-organized by Informatics Europe, TU Wien and other partners. We congratulate the students and wish them a rewarding experience at the Summer School! We would also like to thank our industrial member Bending Spoons for inviting and sponsoring 6 professors from our community to the Synapse in Milan this July. The Synapse is a symposium featuring talks and poster sessions with globally respected voices in the field of AI, to address significant advancements in the field. We look forward to bringing more industry and academic experts together in support of informatics advancements! * Want to support quality research, education and knowledge transfer in informatics across Europe? Contact us to exchange ideas how we can make that happen together – both members and sponsors are welcome! Association News Board Meetings 23 September (Fri), 16:00-17:00, Zoom 23 October (Sun), 14:00-18:30, Hamburg Don’t forget: As a member representative, you can submit agenda topics and participate as an observer in board meetings. Let us know if you’d like to join us! Executive Committee Meetings 27 October (Thu), 08:00-16:00, Hamburg Don’t Miss These IE Activities Register to join our free “Gender Equality in Informatics” webinar series on Zoom: 12 September (Mon), 17:00 “Good Practices throughout Academic Careers: from PhD to Professor” Speaker: Steve Kremer, Inria (France) 10 October (Mon), 17:00 “Challenges on Academic Path as Female Informatics Scientists” Speaker: Simona Motogna, Babes Bolyai University (Romania) 7 November (Mon), 17:00 “Removing Barriers and Strengthening Self-Assurance of Women in Computer Science: From Discovery of Own Talent to Professional Confidence” Speaker: Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg (Germany) Last call of participation in our popular Online Academic Leadership Development Course, new cohort starting on 29 September: Learn more about the course, in which academic leaders from over 20 countries have already participated! Register until 18 September – special rate for IE members! New Informatics Europe Members We are very pleased to welcome the following new members: University of Münster, Computer Science Department, Germany University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Croatia They joined a growing IE membership of over 160 institutions from 33 European countries. Check out our current member list. * Would you like to reach out to other IE members? Simply email to Kit Wan Chui with the relevant news from your institute to get featured in our Bulletin, Twitter and LinkedIn. New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform There are 25 new job openings on the Informatics Europe Job Platform. As members, you can advertise and extend your search to attract the best candidates for your open positions on the IE job platform free of charge!



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