From Informatics Europe

Facts and figures about computer science in Europe

Charter of the working group

One of the critical missions of Informatics Europe is to provide a source of precise, credible information on the state of computer science in Europe, including both aspects that are common to all of us and country-specific elements. The task of this working group is to collect this information.

How to participate

The most urgent contribution for the moment is to enter information about your institution and others that you know about. Please see the Institutions page and add information.

If you wish to participate in the Working Group and in particular help produce the 2007 report (see below) please add yourself to the member list.

Information of interest

The following three areas have been retained for "Facts and Figures" in 2007:

• List of institutions.
  

This is our basic data resource. Contribute to it directly on the Institutions page.

• Degrees, degree requirements and number of graduates

Please enter information and links into the Degrees page.

• Salary survey

To be started. Define categories, e.g. PhD student, postdoc, lecturer, reader, assistant professor, associate professor, full professor. Determine typical yearly salaries, classified by rank and by country.

• EU has initiated a study called Study on the remunerations of researchers in the public and private commercial sectors, that we should get. I have only a pointer to a French report about this study.

Pierre Lescanne 17:10, 5 February 2007 (CET)

Here is a translation fro French of excerpts of the the above text:

In 2006, the European Commission launched an investigation toward the researchers to evaluate the amount of remunerations in the various countries: "Study one the remunerations of researchers in the public and private commercial sectors". This study was based on a direct investigation near the scientific community (questionnaires) then was the correction object to take account of the standard of living (price indexes, purchasing powers, etc) in the various countries. The European average according to the experiment in research is as follows (wages and loads):

• from 0 to 4 years of experience: 19.648 € per year
• from 5 to 7 years of experience: 27.627 € per year
• from 8 to 10 years of experience: 35.728 € per year
• from 11 to 15 years of experience: 44.018 € per year
• more than 15 years of experience: 52.599 € per year

Pierre Lescanne 15:10, 6 February 2007 (CET)

Action plan

The goal is to produce a report

Informatics in Europe: a snapshot

with a final version to be released at ECSS.

Provisional agenda:

• January 5: decide on areas to be explored; see "Selected areas" below. (Done.)
• January 20: appoint area coordinators. These will be people who commit to gathering the facts and figures in one area and submit a sub-report on the area.
• March 15: interim sub-reports (informal) of area coordinators.
• April 30: sub-reports of area coordinators.
• May 31st: draft of full report, integrating all sub-report. Start of discussion period.
• July 15: revised sub-reports.
• September 15: revised report for submission to ECSS.

Links

Institutions page -- Wiki pages of all working groups -- Informatics Europe main page --