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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