Conference Topics

The European Computer Science Summit 2013 has the theme “Informatics and Innovation”. Possible topics for submitted papers include (non-exhaustive list):

• Organizational leadership and policies in research and education in informatics.
• Inter-university collaboration and coordination to promote and strengthen informatics in Europe.
• Research funding in informatics: availability, coordination, experience reports, policies, personal grants, role of the government, role of industry.
• Interdisciplinary research and education for informatics.
• Informatics and education: MOOCs, open learning, online learning, peer evaluation, engineering skills.
• Informatics and society: Ethics, awareness, image, importance, school education, student enrollment.
• Academic careers in informatics: performance indicators in research as well as in education, personal growth, international perspectives.
• Informatics and scholarly publishing: Open access, conferences and journals, preprint practices, social media.
• Informatics and innovation: entrepreneurship, patents, open source, and societal impact.