Conference Schedule

• Patrick Gros, Director of the Inria centre at University of Rennes (France)
• Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Informatics Europe President, IRISA/University of Rennes (France)

Chairs: Ana C.R. Paiva, University of Porto (Portugal) and Jean-Marc Jézéquel, IRISA/University of Rennes (France)

Session description

09:20 - 10:30 Joint Session with Professional Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers

Featured Talks:

• Moore’s Law Calls for the Next-Generation University
  Maarten Steinbuch, Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands)
• Shaping Future Leaders: Lessons from Recent Doctorates
  • Andrea Cini, PhD Graduate from Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
    Currently: Postdoc Researcher, Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
  • Drishti Yadav, PhD Graduate from TU Wien (Austria)
    Currently: Research Associate, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break 

11:00 - 12:30 Joint Panel Session with Professional Development Workshop for Early Career Researchers
"Sharing Best Practices among Deans/Leaders — Identifying key challenges in adapting to change"

Panellists:

• Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
• Nicola Gatti, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
• Guillaume Gravier, IRISA (France)
• Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Groningen (Netherlands)

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Group Work to Discuss Challenges

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:30 Group Work to Discuss Challenges (cont.)

16:30 - 17:00 Closing Remarks

Chairs: Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Groningen (the Netherlands), Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn (Germany).

Session description

09:00 - 10:30 Joint Session with Leaders Workshop

Featured Talks:

• Moore’s Law Calls for the Next-Generation University
  Maarten Steinbuch, Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands)
• Shaping Future Leaders: Lessons from Recent Doctorates
  • Andrea Cini, PhD Graduate from Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
    Currently: Postdoc Researcher, Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
  • Drishti Yadav, PhD Graduate from TU Wien (Austria)
    Currently: Research Associate, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break 

11:00 - 12:30 Joint Panel Session with Leaders Workshop
"Sharing Best Practices among Deans/Leaders — Identifying key challenges in adapting to change"

12:30 - 13:30  Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 Career Development Support Session for Early Career Researchers

Panel of 2025 Best Dissertation Award Finalists:

• Andrea Cini, PhD Graduate from Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
  Currently: Postdoc Researcher, Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)
• Federica Filippini, PhD Graduate from Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
  Currently: Research Fellow, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo), University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
• Erasmo Purificato, PhD Graduate from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Germany)
  Currently: Scientific Project Officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT)
• Drishti Yadav, PhD Graduate from TU Wien (Austria)
  Currently: Research Associate, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00 PhD Symposium

Featuring the 2025 Best Dissertation Award ceremony and winning presentation.

Chair: Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Informatics Europe / IRISA / University of Rennes (France)

Session description

09:00 - 09:30 Opening Session

• Welcome Address

09:30 - 10:30 Keynote Speakers Session

• Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria)
  Integrating Quantum Computing into European Informatics Departments

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

Chairs: Jean-Marc Jézéquel and Nuria Anguera, Informatics Europe

Session description

Guided tour with complimentary bus transfer.

Venue: Château de Cucé, 35510 Cesson-Sévigné 
Featuring the 2025 Minerva Informatics Equality Award ceremony.

Chair: Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU (Norway)
co-organised with IE member National Informatics Associations (NIAs)

Session description

09:00 - 09:30 "Engaging Society and Youth with Informatics" Session

• Enrico Nardelli, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Italy)
  Initiatives in Italy to Engage Young People and Schools in Informatics
• Constance Thierry, SIF - Societé Informatique de France / IRISA (France)
  Approaches Implemented in France to Raise Awareness of Informatics among a Diverse Audience

09:30 - 10:00 Panel Discussion

10:00 - 10:30 "Upskilling for a Rapidly Evolving Future" Session

• Gregor Engels, Paderborn University (Germany)
  Science Communication as Base for Up- and Reskilling
• Martin Hitz, Informatik Austria / University of Klagenfurt (Austria)
  AI is excellent at programming – why should I still learn to program?

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:15 "Upskilling for a Rapidly Evolving Future" Session (continued)

• Jean-Marc Vincent, Université Grenoble Alpes (France)
  
  How to Upskill in Informatics a (Very) Large group of Teachers

11:15 - 12:15 Panel Discussion

12:15 - 12:30 Closing Remarks

 

Chairs: Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart (Germany) and Monica Vitali, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Supported by IE's Green ICT Working Group

Session description

9:00 - 10:00   Keynote

• Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA (France)
  Greening ICT: challenges and research directions in the field of distributed systems towards sustainability

10:00 - 10:30 Working group members’ sharing

• Gabriele Gianini, University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
  From Solvers to Surrogates: Physics-Informed Learning for Sustainable Fluid Workflows
• Gilles Perrouin, Namur Digital Institute (Belgium)
  "Sustainable Software Research @ UNamur"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:15 Presentation of the COST Action proposal “Green ICT for the Future” 
by Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain)

11:15 - 11:30 The Future of Sustainable Digital Infrastructures - An European Study 
by Sebastian Werner, TU Berlin (Germany)

11:30 - 12:30 Towards a framework for greener computing 
moderated by Workshop Chairs, an interactive and participative session involving the workshop’s speakers and all participants.

 

Chairs: Lenuta Alboaie, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași (Romania) and Philippe Krief, Eclipse Foundation
Supported by IE's Open Science Working Group

Session description

09:00 - 09:10  Welcome & Opening

09:10 - 09:30  Interactive Kick-off – SPEED BOAT Game

09:30 – 10:30  Expert Talks

• John Crowley, PHGD Group
  Opening: why Open Science matters
• Yannis Ioannidis, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) / National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
  Open Science: A New Paradigm for the Research Lifecycle
• Roberto Di Cosmo, Software Heritage/Inria/University Paris Cité (France)
  Infrastructure to support (Open) Source as a pillar of Open Science
• Roberto Di Cosmo on behalf of Isabelle Blanc, Ministry of Higher Education and Research (France)
  National coordination and public support
• Violaine Louvet, Université Grenoble Alpes (France)
  Institutional implementation: "setting up an OSPO: lessons from the field"

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15 Expert Talks (cont')

• Bjorn Levin, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (Sweden)
  The Importance of Software Eco Systems in Europe
• Boris Baldassari, OSPO Alliance, Eclipse Foundation
  Community frameworks and governance

11:15 -  11:45   Open discussion with the panelists

11:45 - 12:30   Wrap-up & Action

 

Chairs: Simona Motogna, Babeş-Bolyai University (Romania), Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow (UK)  and Lola Burgueño, University of Malaga (Spain)
Supported by IE's Diversity & Inclusion Working Group

Session description

13:30 - 13:45 Voices of Inclusion: Experiences and Initiatives

• • Matthew Grech-Sollars, University College London (UK)
  • Letizia Jacheri, NTNU (Norway)
  • Malvina Latifaj, Mälardalen University (Sweden)

13:45 – 14:30 Panel discussion

14:30 - 15:00 Interactive collaborative activity part 1: Co-design activity to propose change for inclusion in working spaces

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 - 16.00 Interactive collaborative activity part 2: Co-design activity to propose change for inclusion in working spaces

 

Chair: Covadonga Rodrigo (UNED, Spain)
Supported by IE's Ethics Working Group

Session description

13:30 – 14:20   Interaction activity starting from an Ethics4EU resource on Dark Patterns
co-chaired by Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland)

14:20 – 14:30   WG updates: Overview of aims and ongoing activities

14:30 – 16:30   Round table & Panel: "Addressing ethical challenges with security in the digital society"
with an interactive exchange exploring perspectives from the WG members, as well as leaders across the Informatics Europe and ERCIM communities.
co-chaired by Emma Beauxis Aussalet, ERCIM & Vrije Universiteit (Netherlands) with panellists:

• Marco Gercke, University of Cologne and Cybercrime Research Institute (Germany)
  From Lab to Law: Compliance Journeys of High-Risk AI Development and AP4AI self-assessments
• Kristina Lapin, Vilnius University (Lithuania)
  Raising Ethical Awareness to Combat Dark Patterns
• Rafael Pastor, UNED (Spain)
  Misinformation and risks in the digital society: Ethical use of IA and solutions
• Mirela Riveni, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
  Ethical issues in decision-making with AI
• Tatjana Welzer, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
  Ethics and Accountability