2024 Board Meetings

Board Meetings:

January 26, 09:00-16:00, Zurich
February 23, 15:00-16:30, online
March 22, 15:00-16:30, online
April 26, , 15:00-16:30, online
May 31, 09:00-16:00, Zurich
June 28, 15:00-16:30, online
July 26, 15:00-16:30, online
August 30, 15:00-16:30, online
September 27, 15:00-16:30, online
October 27, 14:00-18:30 (Malta, ECSS 2024)
November 29, 15:00-16:30, online

Member representatives are welcome to submit agenda topics and participate as observers in Informatics Europe board meetings. Let us know if you’d like to join us!

Executive Commitee Meetings:

January 25, 09:00-16:30, Zurich
February 27, 09:00 - 13:00
March 20, 09:00 - 12:00
April 9, 12:30 -16:30
May 28, 09:00 - 13:00
June 12, 09:00 - 13:00
July 16, 12:30 - 16:30
August 27, 12:30 - 16:30
September 17, 12:30 - 16:30
October 22, 09:00 - 13:00
November 5, 09:00 - 13:00
December 10, 09:00 - 13:00

Unless otherwise indicated, the Executive Committee meets online.

Board Director Nominations

Informatics Europe is grateful to consider nominations to Board Directors.

Requirements:

We look for individuals willing to dedicate time and energy to work on Informatics Europe issues on behalf of our membership. We have a working Board, and all members are expected to actively engage in Informatics Europe's activities, and to contribute in setting its strategy for development.

The Board is responsible for overseeing the operations and finances of Informatics Europe (see more details on the Informatics Europe Bylaws). It meets as a whole once a month via a one-hour conference call, and three times per year for full-day face-to-face meetings. Of these, one is in conjunction with our annual ECSS conference, (co-)organized by IE Board and where all directors are expected to contribute and attend. Board members are expected to self-support travel expenses incurred through their role. Board members are expected to be active in at least one of the Activities run by the association, which are core domains strategically important for its development. Examples of such activities include the following active Working Groups: Policy Recommendations, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Green ICT, Education Research, or Open Science. Additionally, each Board member is expected to take an active role in initiatives to boost membership growth within academia, industry, and/or national informatics associations,

Regular members can nominate candidates for the Board, and individuals can also nominate themselves. All candidates must be affiliated with a regular member of Informatics Europe and have shown commitment to contribute to the Informatics community. Terms in the Board last 3 years and people can be re-elected, if actively contributing, for other two terms.

Nomination process:

To self-nominate yourself, please fill in this form. For institution’s nominations, please ask the nominee(s) to fill in the nomination form, or send at most two names to Elisabetta Di Nitto (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), the current Chair of the Board Nomination Committee (BNC). Given the current situation of underrepresentation of women in the board, if you send two nominations at least one must be a woman.

All nominations received will be carefully screened by the BNC and evaluated with respect to geographical distribution, gender balance, research area diversity, distribution of member institution sizes, balance between academic and industrial representation, and seniority.

Based on the nominations received by May 20, 2024, the BNC will propose a short list that the Board will use as basis to contact candidates for the 2025-2027 term (nominations received after that date might only be considered for following terms). The candidates that will commit to take part in the work of the board will be proposed to the General Assembly for election.

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Active Working Groups

Join Informatics Europe Working Groups!

Informatics Europe is only what its members want it to be, and can reach as far as we all want to bring it. We aim to be the European voice of Informatics Research and Education and need your active involvement to reach our goal. 

Join our current Working Groups or propose new ones, to discuss with European colleagues topics of your interest, define valuable initiatives for the Informatics community, and steer a European agenda aligned with our values. 

The aim of these groups, open to Informatics Europe members only*, is to serve as networking and discussion platforms, but also as a source of ideas to define initiatives valuable for the Informatics community, thus where the Informatics Europe community should work.

The societal impact of Informatics is huge, let's steer it together in the right direction!

Please register here if you wish to contribute to any of the currently active working groups, listed below, or contact us at administration@informatics-europe if interested in specific tasks a given Group is currently working on and/or you wish to initiate a new working group.

Why to join an Informatics Europe Working Group

Discuss and act on topics of your interest, with an impact on the overall European informatics research and education community.
Bring individual / local initiatives to the European level, backed by close to 200 top European institutions.
Contribute to Working Group (WG) outcomes, such as policy statements and recommendations, white papers, reports, best practice booklets, joint EU projects (IE as dissemination partner), workshops, events.
Network with research peers from all over Europe.
Meet partners for research projects (with or without the IE label) and increase its visibility by acknowledging your WG membership.
Actively contribute to defining IE strategy and concerted activities in an area of your interest.
Gain visibility as a member of IE WG when disseminating its outcomes (standard IE WG member/chair signature available upon request).

Currently Active Working Groups

Please register here if you wish to contribute to any of our Working Groups.

Additionally, our member National Informatics Associations are welcome to join the Policy Recommendations Working Group, to establish a consensus on how to answer public consultations on issues that relate to any of the goals of the organisation.

Joining or starting a new Working Group

Working Groups (WG) are established by the Board, or recommended by one of their Directors and approved by the Board. Researchers from IE member institutions are welcome to join existing Working Groups or suggest the creation of a new one by submitting a basic proposal to the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Such a proposal should include at least the following:

WG title, reflecting a topic aligned with IE mission and goals.
Name of the proposed WG chair and at least 3 other researchers actively willing to contribute.
Objectives and targeted outcomes (short and long-term goals).
If available, a preliminary description of initial activities (how to get the WG started).

Acceptance criteria

IE Working Groups (WG) accept researchers affiliated with any of our current members.

Researchers from related disciplines who are closely working with our member institutions, and thus endorsed by them, are also welcome to request registration in IE working groups. Such applications will be reviewed and analysed on case-by-case basis.

Failing to fulfill the below-mentioned expectations (under 'governance') may result in a request to leave the WG.

Governance

Working Groups (WG) should have a chair and a secretary selected among the WG members with a simple voting procedure. Each WG should include an IE Board director among its members, who will represent the IE Board in the WG and act as liaison between the two.

WG chairs are expected to:

Regularly call and lead WG meetings (at least 3/year, preferably more).
Foster participation of WG members in meetings as well as concrete activities.
Define task forces** where appropriate.
Set clear deadlines and ensure they are met or correcting measures are put in place.
Ensure all members are assigned at least 1 concrete responsibility.
Ensure the WG has an up-to-date set of goals (with a 12-24 months horizon, but also 5-10 years) and it is clearly communicated in the WG webpage (on IE website).
Regularly provide IE communication officer with ‘ready to publish’ updates, to keep IE community informed about WG work (e.g.: latest agreed activities, status report of outcomes, changes on short/mid/long term goals, etc. to be shared in IE webpage, bulletin and/or social media). At least 4 times/year.
Identify and invite experts who are active in the area covered by the WG to join the IE WG. Encourage WG members to do the same.
Prepare, or cause to be prepared, a session during ECSS every second or third year, to share the WG’s work and gather direct feedback/input from the IE community at large.
Ask WG members who do not fulfill the above-mentioned expectations to leave the WG.

WG members are expected to:

Actively contribute to the strategy setting of the WG, and indirectly to that of IE at large.
Assume concrete responsibilities in WG activities (e.g. leading or contributing task forces).
Promote WG activities and disseminate outcomes (e.g. when attending conferences).
Regularly attend WG meetings (missing more than 3 consecutive ones is not considered regular attendance).
Meet at least once per year at ECSS.

IE Board members (appointed to represent the Board in the WG and vice-versa) are expected to:

Serve as a sounding board for the WG chair and ensure the WG activities are aligned with IE mission and goals.
Monitor that WG activities run according to the pre-defined planning.
Provide a brief (written) progress report for each Board meeting.
Ensure WG chair fulfills the above-mentioned expectations and suggest a co-chair or new WG chair where necessary.

The IE office will develop and maintain (with WG content input) a dedicated page on IE website for each WG.

**Task Forces are established when a group of people is to work on a specific topic to produce a given output (report, policy recommendation, white, paper, workshop, other events). Led by a task force leader, they are related to a WG or a focused areas prveiously approved by the Board. They are convened and report to theiWG chair or assigned Board director.

Acknowledgements

Informatics Europe would like to express our profound gratitude to every single person and organisation for your support and commitment to our working groups, task forces, and activities as follows:

Organizing Committees and Speakers of Past European Computer Science Summits
Members of IE Working Groups and Task Forces:
Speakers at IE Webinar Series
Facilitators of our Academic Leadership Courses
Award Committee members of the Best Practices in Education and the Minerva Informatics Equality Awards
Current and Past Board Members.
Current Sponsors and ECSS Partners over the years.

Your contributions help us keep members connected, continue to fulfil and extend our mission of promoting, shaping and stimulating quality research, education, and knowledge transfer in informatics at European level. Thank you!

Why and How to Join

Because we have a common cause and a common interest.

Informatics is a distinct science, characterised by its own concepts, methods, and body of knowledge. Raising a strong and consensual community voice is today more relevant than ever.

Computer and Information Scientists throughout Europe face many of the same challenges. Informatics Europe provides an arena to discuss and coordinate strategic issues and emerging trends on research, education and social impact of Informatics at a European level. Fostering unity in the variety of our member institutions, and promoting pan-European collaboration, we empower our community to engage in continuous improvement and active policy shaping of the discipline in Europe.

Our potential can go as far as our collective ambitions take it.

Join us now and contribute to increasing our weight in change-making decisions at the European level.

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Become a Member

Membership Benefits

The main reason that brings institutions to join Informatics Europe is the belief that a united and strong European Informatics Research and Education community is needed. But Informatics Europe membership also carries tangible benefits:

Academic Institutions, Public and Private Research Labs, and Companies

Becoming an IE members elevates your institute’s visibility and recognition as a supporter and active shaper of our mission. It also contributes to your organization’s continues improvement, through knowledge exchange, best practice sharing, eased access to talent and enhanced pan-European visibility of its researchers and research outcomes.

Membership is institutional and extends to all faculty of your department/faculty or researchers of your Lab/company. You are all welcome to take full advantage of being part of a large and influential community:

Be recognized as part of the growing body of institutions that are raising the voice of Informatics in Europe.
Bring forward your institution's interests, gain visibility, and influence decision-making on important Informatics agenda topics at the European level.
Learn directly from the experience of your peers, and exchange insights and best practices with academic, technology, and policy leaders at our events or working groups.
Participate in the Working Groups of Informatics Europe to shape strategic priorities such as Europe-wide data collection on Informatics education in Europe, Informatics education and curricula in schools in Europe, Open Science, Societal Impact of Informatics or its EU visibility.
Submit agenda topics and participate as an observer in Informatics Europe Board meetings.
Nominate candidates to the Informatics Europe Board of Directors.
Gain instant access to reports and Europe-wide benchmarking data on key academic parameters, providing invaluable arguments in discussions with university management, government authorities, or funding bodies.
Publish open positions free of charge in the Informatics Job Platform, dedicated to research and academic positions in the field.
Find PhD candidates in our CV Repository and offer your students and recent graduates international job and internship possibilities.
Benefit of a discount at Informatics Europe events and services (incl. ECSS and Department EvaluationDepartment Evaluation)

We have an affordable annual Membership-fee scheme for academic and public research lab members taking into consideration the department/institution size and national GDP (see below, under types of memberships).

National Informatics Associations

The main benefit for the National Informatics Associations (NIAs) members of Informatics Europe is to bring forward and represent the consensual national view in European discussions while contributing national debates with the outcomes produced by the Informatics Europe community. In particular, the executive and management board of NIAs are invited to represent the interests of their national associations as follows:

participating in our Working Groups;
participating in the Policy Recommendations Working Group, which is open to representatives of NIAs only;
bringing forward topics to be discussed during one of the sessions of ECSS (NIAs workshop) and collaborating in its organization;
acting as ambassadors to strengthen and shape the informatics education and research community in Europe, as well as in their respective countries;
joining ECSS at IE-members’ discount rates;
accessing IE members-only reports;
nominating themselves as Informatics Europe Board of Directors candidates.

NIAs benefits are not extensive to their members. Institutions affiliated with a given NIA are invited to apply individually to join Informatics Europe and benefit from the Academic Institution benefits (see above).

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Additionally, all the new members of a given year are invited to a 'New Members Only' get-together with IE representatives. This meeting takes place in connection with the ECSS and aims at identifying common interests as well as the best collaboration patterns with our new members.

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Who can be a member?

Membership is institutional and open to:

academic faculties or departments of Informatics, Computer Science, Computing, IT, ICT,
research laboratories (public or private) in Informatics, Computer Science, Computing, IT, ICT,
national and international associations in Informatics, Computer Science, Computing, IT, ICT,
industrial organisations interested in these topics.

All membership applications will be analyzed by the Membership Committee, which will provide a motivated recommendation to the Informatics Europe Board on accepting or declining each application based on the following evaluation criteria.

Evaluation criteria for academic members:

Level of education in Informatics (also known as Computer Science or Computing), with as minimal requirements:
- Be accredited in the country as a tertiary education institution, and
- Have a study program related to Informatics at the Master's or Doctoral level.
Level of research in Informatics, with minimal requirements:
- Having permanent staff actively engaged in research, and
- Publications in recognized research venues.
Situation of the national scenario of tertiary education.
Role of the requesting institution in the national context.

Evaluation criteria for public/private research laboratories:

Actively conduct research in Informatics (also known as Computer Science or Computing), with as minimal requirements:
- Having permanent staff actively engaged in Informatics research, and
- Publications in recognized research venues related to Informatics.
Actively participate in research activity with:
- National/international academic institutions, or
- European research institutions or companies.
Willingness to actively support Informatics Europe activities.

Evaluation criteria for national associations:

National Associations are networks of university departments and/or individuals in Informatics/ Computer Science/ Computing and related fields who have the mission to actively represent the national informatics community in a European country on matters directly related to Informatics Research and Education (e.g. policy formulation/implementation, domain representation, lobbying).

Evaluation criteria for industrial organizations:

Engaged in product/services development related to Information Technology, with as minimal requirements:
- Being engaged in activities that require academically-trained informatics staff at Master/PhD level, and
- Being engaged in R&D activities leveraging advances in the field of Informatics.
Willingness to actively support Informatics Europe activities.

Corporate organizations, foundations and other institutions who do not fulfil the above criteria but do share an interest in our mission and are wishing to support the Informatics research community in Europe are welcome to explore our sponsoring possibilities

Membership Committee:

Kim Mens, Informatics Europe Board Member
Lenuta Alboaie, Informatics Europe Board Member
Nuria Anguera, Informatics Europe Executive Director

When necessary the Membership Committee will include, additionally, one or two country experts.

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Types of Membership - Fees

As of 1 January 2022, the following membership fee scheme applies. This scheme has been approved by Informatics Europe members at the 2021 AGA to better accommodate the range in department/faculty sizes and to reflect current economic parameters within Europe. Memberships are collected once per year.

New members joining throughout a given year contribute with the complete annual fee. Those registering between July and October benefit from a complimentary registration to our annual ECSS conference (one individual per institution). New members joining after ECSS (late October) are charged a pro-rata amount for the remaining days of the current year, together with the following year's invoice.

Academic Membership & Public Research Labs Membership

Two factors determine the annual membership fee for academic as well as for public research labs members :

Country zone: based on national GDP per capita, PPP (current international $).
Size: number of permanent informatics FTE Faculty* teaching and doing research at the member institution (department/school/faculty/institute)

Institution Size (FTE Faculty)	Zone 0 (GDP > 65K)	Zone 1 (GDP 65 - 50K)	Zone 2 (GDP 50 - 33K)	Zone 3 (GDP < 33K)
Small (≤ 15)	EUR 1,575	EUR 1,150	EUR 850	EUR 575
Medium (16 ≤ 24)	EUR 2,200	EUR 1,675	EUR 1,150	EUR 850
Large (≥ 25)	EUR 2,950	EUR 2,300	EUR 1,675	EUR 1,150

*Permanent faculty members refer to individuals, such as professors, lecturers, and researchers, whose position does not have a predefined end date. For our purposes, positions on tenure-track schemes (or similar) are considered permanent. Non-academic staff is not considered faculty

Country zone mapping is based on the latest World Bank GDP per capita data (2022).

Zone 0: Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland.
Zone 1: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Sweden, United Kingdom.
Zone 2: Andorra, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey.
Zone 3: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine.

Federated Membership

Federated members represent a grouping of up to five academic/research institutions that can apply for this type of membership to overcome the financial limitations of small institutions if they share a common geographical or cultural denominator.

The Federation has one vote at the Annual General Assembly.
All of its members receive the same access to resources, services, and benefits as regular members

Membership fee: See table above. For federated members, the FTE Faculty count is the sum of the Faculty numbers in each institution forming the federation. Should federated members wish to receive individual invoices for their share of the membership, 50 EUR per extra invoice will be charged. For more details, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

National Informatics Associations Membership

National Associations of Informatics institutions (alone or mixed with individuals) are considered large academic members in their respective country zones. The membership fee of National Informatics Associations of academic members is waived when over ⅓ of all potential academic members join Informatics Europe as direct members.

Two factors determine the annual membership fee for National Associations of individuals:

Country zone: based on national GDP per capita, PPP (current international $)
Size: number of members

NIA Size (# members / GDP pc)	Zone 0 (GDP > 65K)	Zone 1 (GDP 65 - 50K)	Zone 2 (GDP 50 - 33K)	Zone 3 (GDP < 33K)
Small (< 250)	EUR 1’150	EUR 850	EUR 575	EUR 350
Medium (250 < 500)	EUR 1’575	EUR 1’150	EUR 850	EUR 575
Large (500 < 750)	EUR 2’200	EUR 1’675	EUR 1’150	EUR 850
Very large (≥ 750)	EUR 2’950	EUR 2’300	EUR 1’675	EUR 1’150

Associate Membership

Associate members are organisations with which Informatics Europe collaborates. Associate members do not vote, do not participate in committee chairmanship, and do not have full access to all resources.

Membership fee: Between 500 EUR and 5,000 EUR, depending on organization's size and country (decided by the Informatics Europe Membership Committee).

Candidates for Associate membership are kindly requested to write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. briefly explaining the reasons for their expression of interest, in particular their fit with our mission and goals.

Industrial Membership

Private laboratories and industrial organizations. Benefits are the same as for academic members.

Total industrial dues are established by the Board membership committee taking into account the company size and its internal workings. Total dues combine a minimum membership fee of 3.500 EUR/year with the support to concrete IE initiatives, but do not include customized services for a given member. For further information please contact our executive director This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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Application Process

The Membership Committee, assisted when necessary by national experts, will examine your membership application with respect to the four evaluation criteria mentioned above and provide a motivated recommendation to the Board of Informatics Europe which will decide about your Membership. Please note that the process may take some weeks and we could contact you for further documentation proving the eligibility to become our member.

Once your membership application is approved by the Board of Informatics Europe, our staff will be back to you with further information about your membership and payment details.

Candidates for Associate membership are kindly requested to write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. briefly explaining the reasons for their expression of interest, in particular their fit with our mission and goals.

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Membership Statistics

Growth

Informatics Europe's origins are linked to the first ECSS (European Computer Science Summit), a call by the Informatics Department of ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne (Switzerland) to all European peers in 2005. In two years the organization reached 45 members, since then the net annual growth rate in terms of membership is 9%.

We are still a youthful organization, steadily expanding with untapped potential for growth!

Members Ranking

Nine of the first ten universities offering Informatics studies in Europe, according to QS ranking 2023, belong to Informatics Europe. The QS World University Ranking evaluates universities worldwide across various disciplines.

Research Reach

To ensure a comprehensive representation of European researchers at the earliest opportunity, the organization initially prioritized contacts with prestigious large Informatics departments and labs (counting more than 25 permanent faculty or researchers). Today, over 70% of our members still belong to this category.

We are currently working on reaching a balanced representation of small and medium institutions as well, in the interest of diversity and to truly represent the community at large. The number of institutions counting less than 25 faculty or researchers is thus steadily increasing.

All in all, Informatics Europe represents some 50’000 informatics researchers.*

*Assuming an average of 7 people per research group and 10, 20, 50 research groups for small, medium respectively large institutions.

Teaching Reach

In terms of informatics students’ population in Europe, we estimate having a direct impact on at least half a million students. While we work on collecting exact data from our members, this is our best estimate for bachelors, masters, and PhDs studying at our member institutions.

Geographical Reach

Informatics Europe represents the academic and research community in Informatics in Europe and neighbouring countries. Our membership currently encompasses more than 30 countries, covering 75% of the targeted country reach:

Informatics Europe fees are determined in terms of the purchasing power of our members, who are divided into 4 zones depending on their national GDP per capita, PPP. At present lower-income countries are underrepresented in our membership base, but we are working to change this. Having a more balanced representation of our Board of Directors from each of these 4 zones is also part of our strategy, and for that we are trying to include more board members from zone 3.

Zone 0: Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland; Zone 1: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Sweden, United Kingdom; Zone 2: Andorra, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey; Zone 3: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Ukraine.

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Testimonials

"As a member of Informatics Europe, the University of Castilla-La Mancha benefits from a wealth of resources and opportunities for collaboration in the field of informatics. Through this community, we have been able to network with leading researchers, educators, and industry partners across Europe and beyond. Our membership has allowed us to gain valuable insights into the latest trends and innovations in informatics, and to share our own expertise and experience with colleagues across the continent. We highly recommend joining Informatics Europe to any institution that is committed to advancing the field of informatics. It is a unique platform that enables institutions to shape the future of informatics education and research, and we are proud to be part of this vibrant and dynamic community."

Ismael García Varea,
Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha

"As a former Board Director at Informatics Europe, I have witnessed the significant benefits and importance of collaborative work across Europe. It was my privilege to initiate and participate in various working groups, launching initiatives that address societal and ethical issues in Informatics. Our efforts brought together highly skilled and passionate professionals from a variety of backgrounds and universities throughout Europe to share ideas, knowledge, experiences, and resources. Being a part of Informatics Europe not only accelerates the progress of our field through information and knowledge sharing but also nurtures valuable connections, contributing to the growth and development of Informatics in Europe."

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Mälardalen University

"We're proud to have partnered with and supported Informatics Europe from the start. At Springer Nature, we place great importance on promoting the academic side of computer science to the wider world and ensuring that society understands the significance of science and computer science in particular, especially in the time of AI. Seeing ourselves as part of the research community, we are delighted to collaborate with Informatics Europe in this endeavor and extremely grateful for its bridging role between academics, industry and society at large."

Welmoed Spahr, Springer Nature

"As a senior professor in informatics, I cannot stress enough the significance of joining Informatics Europe (IE). I am thankful for representing my department in IE to encourage collaboration and innovation in our field for nearly two decades! IE offers opportunities for professional development and networking through its working groups, annual conference, awards, and resources. Joining Informatics Europe should be a must for any responsibly acting informatics department from a political, societal as well as from a discipline viewpoint."

Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn

"Informatics Europe has given our department an invaluable platform for meeting colleagues, for sharing ideas and experiences, for learning about new developments, and for staying on par with the best of standards in our discipline."

Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University

National Informatics Associations

Contributing a consensual national view; serving as external Ambassadors

Our member National Informatics Associations (NIAs) are key in bringing forward and representing a consensual national view in the European discussions taking place within Informatics Europe Working Groups. They are also of invaluable support in contributing to Informatics research and education national debates with the outcomes produced by the Informatics Europe community, in supporting its growth and, in sum, in acting as ambassadors of the community in their respective countries.

With the aim to coordinate efforts and networking with and between NIAs in Europe, Informatics Europe organizes several times per year virtual and in-presence gatherings. Non-members associations are welcome to attend as guests and get a better understanding of the full power of becoming Informatics Europe members.

NIAs membership benefits are not extensive to their members. Institutions affiliated with a given NIA are invited to apply individually to join Informatics Europe and benefit from the Academic Institution benefits (listed here). Informatics Europe is a network that represents Informatics Departments and Research Labs, and it's only through their individual membership that we can be influential and sustainable in the longer term.

If your National Association is interested in Informatics Europe initiatives and future events or collaboration please contact our office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Note that in countries where over ⅓ of all potential Informatics departments become members of Informatics Europe, the National Informatics Associations (if any) can join Informatics Europe without paying the membership fee.

Policy recommendations working group

Exclusively formed by representatives of our member national informatics associations, this group aims to establish a consensus, when producing policy statements on certain topics, going beyond personal biases and opinions while considering national viewpoints. Please visit the Policy Recomendations section for further details about this activity.

Strategy-setting and coordination meetings

To foster efforts in coordination and networking with and between NIAs in Europe, these gatherings take place several times per year (sometimes inviting guest associations*). While the detailed list is available under the tab 'Meetings', the most recent outcomes are as follows:

Co-organization of a session during the ECSS 2023. held on 25 October 2023, about AI and the Future of Informatics Education. Learn more about the workshop here and read the presentation slides in the corresponding section of the program here
Co-organization of a session during the ECSS 2022. held on 26 October 2022, about Open Science and the Future of Research Dissemination in Informatics. Learn more about the workshop here and read the presentation slides here
Hybrid meeting in Zurich on 24 March 2022 results in the initiation of task forces within the Open Science working group;
Co-organization of a session during the ECSS 2021. held on 27 October 2021, about Research Evaluation in Informatics and Informatics in Interdisciplinary Curricula. Learn more about the workshop here and read the presentation slides here.
The Joint Statement on Informatics Research Evaluation released in April 2020 and can be downloaded here.

*Regular working group activities are restricted to national informatics associations which are members of Informatics Europe. However, the following associations having shown interest in our activities are invited as guest to some meetings, while their membership status is evaluated: Digital Research Centre Denmark, Dansk Selskab for Datalogi, Finnish Society for Computer Science, Gruppo di Ingegneria Informatica (GII), National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI), Swedish AI Society (SAIS), Swiss Informatics Society (SI), Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC).

- March 2022 - A special hybrid meeting took place in Zurich on 24 March 2022 with the following topics presented and discussed. As a result, task forces within the Open Science working group were initiated and the progress was reported during ECSS 2022:
  - The GII-GRIN-SCIE (GGS) conference ranking initiative presented by Paolo Atzeni on behalf of GRIN and GII;
  - A process maturity model for Informatics conferences presented by Enrico Nardelli, Informatics Europe President;
  - Open data research data management initiative presented by Michael Goedicke on behalf of FTI;
  - Open access challenges in Informatics presented by Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L'Aquila;
  - Informatics Europe permanent working groups presented by Enrico Nardelli, Informatics Europe President.
- April 2021 - A special meeting on Data Collection: Informatics Curricula for Interdisciplinary Collaboration took place via Zoom on 16 April 2021. By collecting basic data about the Informatics contents in interdisciplinary curricula, the goal is to prepare an overview report on the situation and possible curricular recommendation by the end of the year.
- January 2020 - A special meeting on Open Access, Open Data, and Research Data Management was held in Zurich on 30 January 2020. To learn more please download the minutes of the meeting with links to the presentations.
- July 2019 - A special meeting on Research Evaluation took place in Zurich on 9 July 2019. To learn more please download the minutes of the meeting with links to the presentations or read the article about the meeting. One of meeting's outcomes is the Joint Statement on Informatics Research Evaluation issued in April 2020.
- February 2019 - National Associations have been invited to the Informatics for All Coalition Workshop held in Brussels on 20 February 2019. To learn more please visit the workshop webpage.
The list below provides the minutes, joint statements and/or slides of talks from the meetings/workshops co-organised with National Informatics Associations during the annual European Computer Science Summit:

ECSS 2023 Workshop on AI and the Future of Informatics Education
25 October 2023, Edinburgh
- Session 1: AI and the practice of teaching Software Engineering
  - Slides by Massimiliano Di Penta
  - Slides by Filippo Lanubile
- Session 2: The impact of AI on Informatics curricula and educational practices
  - Slides by David López
  - Slides by Thomas Gross
- Session 3: The future of Informatics research evaluation
  - Slides by Pierre Paradinas & Laurent Romary
ECSS 2022 Workshop on Open Science and the Future of Research Dissemination in Informatics
26 October 2022, Hamburg
- Session 1 - Rethinking the Role of Informatics Conferences
  - Slides by Carlo Ghezzi
  - Slides by Stefano Paraboschi
- Session 2 - Open access publication models for Informatics
  - Slides by Roberto Di Cosmo
  - Slides by Laurent Romary
- Session 3 - Open Data and Research Data Management in Informatics
  - Slides by Michael Goedicke
ECSS 2021 Workshop on Research Evaluation in Informatics and Informatics in Interdisciplinary Curricula
27 October 2021, hybrid Summit in Madrid
- Read the presentation slides here.
ECSS 2020 Workshop on Interdisciplinarity and Informatics
28 October 2020 (half-day morning session), Online
- Minutes and Slides of the Workshop
- Video Recordings of the Workshop (Part 1, Part 2)
ECSS 2019 Informal Lunch & Discussion
October 2019, Rome
- During the ECSS 2019, representatives of several National Associations met in Rome for an informal lunch and discussion on synergies.
ECSS 2018 Working Session
10 October 2018, Gothenburg
- the first joint meeting of the National Associations and Informatics Europe representatives as part of the program of the ECSS 2018
- Learn more from the Minutes of the Working Session

Board Nomination Committee

The Informatics Europe Board Nomination Committee is a standing committee of Informatics Europe with responsibility for searching, identifying, and recommending new candidates for the Informatics Europe Board.

The committee is composed of the following members:

the Chair who is a member of the Executive Committee,
up to three current members of the Board,
one past member of the Board and
the immediate Past President, as long as he/she is ex-officio part of the Board.

The current members of the Board Nomination Committee are:

Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) - Chair
Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Michael E. Caspersen, It-vest – networking universities (Denmark)
Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Pekka Orponen, Aalto University, Finland

Past Board Members of Informatics Europe

Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University (2018-2019)

Frederic Benhamou, University of Nantes (2009-2013)
Gérard Berry, Collège de France (2014-2016)

Dick Bulterman, CWI / VU Amsterdam (2020-2023)

Luís Caires, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (2018-2019)

Michael E. Caspersen, It-vest – networking universities (2017-2022)
Núria Castell Ariño, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2012-2015)
Christine Choppy, University of Paris 13 Nord (Past Vice President, 2005-2011)
Stefan Decker, RWTH Aachen/Fraunhofer (Past Treasurer, 2014-2017)

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology (2022-2023)

Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London (Past Vice President, 2018-2019)

Gregor Engels, Univesity of Paderborn (Board Member, 2005-2011, 2016-2017 and Past Treasurer 2018-2023)

Floriana Esposito, University of Bari (2016-2017)

Anthony Finkelstein, University College London and The Alan Turing Institute (2014-2016)

Ismael García-Varea, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha (2020-2021)
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano (Board Member, 2011 and Past President, 2012-2015)

Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2020-2021)

Georg Gottlob, University of Oxford (2012-2014)

Lynda Hardman, CWI / Utrecht University (Board Member, 2012-2015 and Past President, 2016-2017)

Mark Harris, Innovaventures (2010-2013)
Hans-Ulrich Heiss, TU Berlin (Past Vice President, 2008-2015)
Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA/UPM (Past Vice President, 2014-2017)

Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh (2014-2017)

Thomas Hofmann, ETH Zurich (2014-2015)

Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2018-2021)

Mehdi Jazayeri, Università della Svizzera italiana (Past Vice President, 2014-2020)

Hélène Kirchner, Inria (2016-2019)

James Larus, EPFL (2016-2019)
Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University (Past Vice President, 2005-2011)
Nelson Mattos, Google (2012-2013)
Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich (Past President, 2005-2011)

Mira Mezini, Darmstadt University of Technology (2016-2017)
Manfred Nagl, RWTH Aachen University (2012-2015)

Enrico Nardelli, Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata' (Board Member, 2009-2011, Past Treasurer, 2012-2013, Past Vice President, 2014-2015, and Past President, 2018-2023)

Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara (2020-2023)
Roumen Nikolov, University of Sofia (2009-2011)

Luke Ong, University of Oxford (2016-2019)
Leszek Pacholski, University of Wroclaw (Past Vice President, 2012-2017)
Maja Pantic, Imperial College London (2014)

Cristina Pereira, Informatics Europe (Ex-officio, 2010-2021)

Antoine Petit, Inria (Past Vice President, 2010-2015)

Markus Püschel, ETH Zurich (2016-2019)

Norbert Ritter, University of Hamburg (2022)
Heiki Saikonnen, Helsinki University of Technology (2012-2013)
Jorgen Staunstrup, IT University of Copenhagen (2005-2010)
Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano (2005-2011)

Jaak Vilo, University of Tartu (2018-2021)

Hannes Werthner, TU Wien (2017-2020)

Standa Živný, University of Oxford (2021-2022)

*Note that the affiliation indicated was the one at the time of their membership on the Informatics Europe Board of directors. Some people have changed affiliation since then.