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    Awards

    Promoting and inspiring excellence

    Each year, Informatics Europe presents awards recognizing outstanding initiatives that advance the quality of research and education in Informatics in Europe.

    • Debut in 2023, the Best Dissertation Award aims to stimulate young researchers from our member institutes by rewarding them, and disseminating excellent research findings to the Informatics Europe community and beyond.
    • The Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises best practices in Departments or Faculties of European Universities and Research Labs that encourage and support the careers of women in Informatics research and education. This award is first presented in 2016.
    • The Best Practices in Education Award recognises educational initiatives across Europe that improve the quality of Informatics teaching and the attractiveness of the discipline. This award was initiated in 2011 and is on pause for 2023 as we look for a new sponsor. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to find out how to become our Award sponsor.

    Entrants for the awards may nominate themselves or be nominated. The prestige of the Informatics Europe awards relies on the high calibre of the international award committees convened each year to review submissions. Winners are announced at an Award Ceremony during the annual European Computer Science Summit.

     

    2016 Best Practices in Education Award

    October 2016 - Award Winner and Ceremony at the ECSS 2016 in Budapest

    The ALaDDIn project, proposed by Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo and Massimo Santini, from the ALaDDIn working group at the Computer Science Department, UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Milano, Italy, is the winner of the 2016 Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education Award. The Award was presented during the  12th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2016) in Budapest, Hungary, October 2016.

    Read the winning Award submission.

    BPEA2016

     From left to right: Michael E. Caspersen,  Anna Morpurgo, Mattia Monga, Lynda Hardman.

    The 2016 Award is devoted to curriculum and professional development initiatives that promote Informatics in schools as a mandatory subject for all students. Initiatives at the (upper) secondary level are particularly encouraged. The Award honors original contributions that focus on teaching Informatics fundamentals in schools. Experiences on using software or hardware tools to improve learning in other disciplines than Informatics are not considered.

    About the 2016 Award

    The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries a prize of  5,000

    The Award can be given to an individual or to a group. To be eligible, participants must be located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe (www.coe.int), or Israel. Members of the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not eligible.

    The Award Committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals (individuals or teams).

    Award Committee:

    • Michael E. Caspersen, Aarhus University (Chair)
    • Gerard Berry, Collège de France
    • Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow
    • Judith Gal-Ezer, The Open University of Israel
    • Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology
    • Lauri Malmi, Aalto University
    • Carsten Schulte, Paderborn University
    • Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano

    Click here to reach the 2016 Call for submissions.