2017-present - The InformaticsforAll Coalition

IE representatives in InformaticsforAll Committee:

• (2017-) Enrico Nardelli, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
• (2023-) Ángel Velázquez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Sociedad Científica Informática de España (SCIE)
• (2017-2023) Michael E. Caspersen, It-vest – networking universities

2013-2018 - Informatics Education in Europe: Are We All in the Same Boat?

2012-2013 - Informatics Education: Europe cannot afford to miss the boat

*Note that the affiliation indicated was the one at the time of their participation in the Informatics Europe activities. Some people have changed affiliation since then.

2025 - Bachelor-Level Informatics Education in Europe: Key Data & Trends, 2018/19 – 2022/23 (available through this link)

• Přemek Brada, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
• Ana Paiva, University of Porto, Portuga
• Svetlana Tikhonenko, Informatics Europe, Switzerland

2024 - 2025 - European Informatics Retention and Graduation Rate Report 
(joint Informatics Europe and ACM Europe report)

• Přemek Brada, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
• Michael E. Caspersen, It-vest – networking universities, Denmark
• Elisabetta di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Judith Gal-Ezer, Open University of Israel, Israel
• Andrew McGettrick, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Enrico Nardelli, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
• Ana Paiva, University of Porto, Portuga
• Svetlana Tikhonenko, Informatics Europe, Switzerland

2021-2022 - Informatics Higher Education in Europe: A Data Portal and Case-Study
(article featured in the November 2023 issue of the Communications of the ACM Journal available through this link).

• Elisabetta di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Ismael García-Varea, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Mehdi Jazayeri, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
• Damian Tamburri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Svetlana Tikhonenko, Informatics Europe, Switzerland

2019 - present - Informatics Europe Higher Education Data Portal 

National contacts contributing to obtaining and interpreting country-specific data and developing and revising the Data Portal are listed here.

2013-2019 - Informatics Education in Europe: Institutions, Degrees, Students, Positions, Salaries - Key Data Report Series

Authors collaborating in various editions of the Key Data Report Series:

• Mehdi Jazayeri, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
• Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Enrico Nardelli, Università di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Italy
• Cristina Pereira, Informatics Europe, Switzerland
• Svetlana Tikhonenko, Informatics Europe, Switzerland
• Hannes Werthner, TU Wien, Austria

2018 - Pilot Study on “Industry Funding for Academic Research in Informatics in Europe”

• ECSS 2025: Diversity and Inclusion Workshop
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  Date: October 2025 
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2025 workshop, held in Rennes on 29 October 2025.

• Minerva Informatics Equality Award Catalogue 
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  Date: October 2025 
  Details: The Catalogue brings together a decade of best practices submitted to the Minerva Informatics Equality Award and celebrates European initiatives that advance gender equality in Informatics research and education. It classifies and analyses actions that support women at all career stages - from students to senior academics - offering searchable examples, tags, and impact indicators.

• Online event: "United for Impact: Women in Informatics" 
  Date: March 2025
  Details: A special online event dedicated to celebrating and advancing the role of women in Informatics. 
  Featured Speakers:
  - Prof. Letizia Jaccheri – ACM Distinguished Speaker, EUGAIN Action Chair
  - Prof. Ana Lucia Varbanescu – ICT-Research Platform Netherlands (IPN) Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
  - Prof. Mathew Barr – Ada Scotland
  - Prof. Maria Pia Giovannini – CDIT Roma, Italy.

• ECSS 2024: "Cultivating Diversity: Integrating Inclusive Design into Informatics Education" Workshop
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  Date: October 2024
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2024 workshop, organized jointly with Ethics WG, held in Malta on 29 October 2024. 

• Survey About Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Report
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  Date: April 2024
  Details: The report resulted from a mapping study conducted from December 2022 to assess ongoing diversity initiatives and collect information from university departments developing such projects. The report summarizes findings from 33 initiatives captured during this period.

• ECSS 2025: Ethics Workshop
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  Date: October 2025
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2025 workshop, held in Rennes on 29 October 2025. 

• ECSS 2024: "Cultivating Diversity: Integrating Inclusive Design into Informatics Education" Workshop
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  Date: October 2024
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2024 workshop, organized jointly with Diversity and Inclusion WG, held in Malta on 29 October 2024. 

• ECSS 2022: Societal Impact on Digital Transformation Workshop
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  Date: October 2022
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2022 workshop, held in Hamburg on 26 October 2022. 

Current members:

• Monica Vitali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Chair)
• Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Mina Alipour, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• Manel Barkallah, University of Namur, Belgium
• Mikkel Baun Kjaergaard, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Nicolas Bique, SVIA SSIE SSII Schweiz - Verein für Informatik in der Ausbildung, Switzerland
• Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
• Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
• Ilche Georgievski, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Gabriele Gianini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Kawsar Haghshenas, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• Brian Keegan, TU Dublin, Ireland
• Monica Landoni, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
• Julian Legler, TU Berlin, Germany
• Ciarán O'Leary, TU Dublin, Ireland 
• Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgium
• Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland
• Ina Schieferdecker, TU Berlin, Germany
• Lucía Serrano-Luján, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
• Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Sebastian Werner, TU Berlin, Germany

Past Chairs:

• Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany (2023-2025)
• Marina Jirotka, University of Oxford, UK (Sustainability Working Group, 2022)

• Second International Summer School on Informatics Education Research (SCHIER)
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  Date: September 2025 
  Details: Description of the second edition of the SCHIER, held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium from 8 to 12 September 2025.

• ECSS 2024: "Academia/Industry Collaboration in Higher Education" Workshop
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  Date: October 2024 
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2024 workshop, held in Malta on 30 October 2024.

• First International Summer School on Informatics Education Research (SCHIER)
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  Date: September 2024 
  Details: Description of the first edition of the SCHIER, held in Zurich, Switzerland from 2 to 6 September 2024.

• ECSS 2025: Green ICT and ICT for Green Workshop
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  Date: October 2025 
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2025 workshop, held in Rennes on 29 October 2025.

• ECSS 2024: Green ICT and ICT for Green Workshop
  Read More
  Date: October 2024 
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2024 workshop, held in Malta on 29 October 2024.

• ECSS 2023: Green ICT and ICT for Green Workshop
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  Date: October 2023 
  Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2023 workshop, held in Edinburgh on 25 October 2023.

Current members:

• Simona Motogna, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania (Chair)
• Claire Matti, Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud, Switzerland (Secretary)
• Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
• Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow, UK
• Pille Beldman, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Lola Burgueño, University of Malaga, Spain
• Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy
• Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• María-del-Mar Gallardo-Melgarejo, University of Malaga, Spain
• Ana-Belén Gil-González, University of Salamanca, Spain
• Miguel Goulão, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA LINCS, Portugal
• Matthew Grech-Sollars, University College London (UCL), UK
• Svetlana Hensman, TU Dublin, Ireland
• Francisco Iniesto, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
• Sarah Jane Delany, TU Dublin, Ireland
• Malvina Latifaj, Mälardalen University, Sweden
• Beate List, Google
• Cristina Manresa, Sociedad Científica Informática de España, Spain
• Estefanía Martín-Barroso, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Davide Martinenghi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Maria Nisheva-Pavlova, Sofia University, Bulgaria
• Lili Nemec Zlatolas, University of Maribor, Slovenia
• Ayushi Rastogi, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Larissa Schmid, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
• Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg, Germany
• Florence Sèdes, SIF, France 
• Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
• Sirja Sulakatko, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Anna Szlávi, NTNU, Norway
• Carla Teixeira Lopes, University of Porto, Portugal
• Riccardo Torlone, Roma Tre University, Italy
• Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
• Serena Versino, University of Pisa, Italy
• Claudio Zandron, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Current members:

• Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Groningen, Netherlands (Co-Chair)
• Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Co-Chair)
• Tariq Bontekoe, University of Groningen, Netherlands
• Johan Cederbladh, Mälardalen University, Sweden
• Eduard Kamburjan, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Gerry Longfils, University of Namur, Belgium
• Joao Rebelo Moreira, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Estefania Talavera Martinez, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Irene Vanderfeesten, KU Leuven, Belgium

A delicate equilibrium between ICT growth and environmental preservation, at the core of Europe's sustainable future.

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a dual role in Europe's pursuit of sustainability. On the one hand, it acts as a catalyst for societal modernization, optimizing processes in sectors like transport, healthcare, and building management, thus potentially reducing carbon footprints. On the other hand, the sector itself is a significant energy consumer, with, for example, data centers alone accounting for 2-3% of global energy usage. In line with the European Green Deal of 2019, which sets an ambitious target for Europe to become carbon neutral by 2050, a balanced approach is required. This involves developing an efficient, optimized ICT infrastructure with minimal environmental impact, while simultaneously leveraging these technologies to further sustainability in all societal sectors. This delicate equilibrium between ICT growth and environmental preservation is at the core of Europe's sustainable future.

Informatics Europe, representing nearly 200 member institutions across Europe, is gathering efforts for sustainability in and through Informatics. The Green ICT Working Group launched at ECSS 2023 in Edinburgh with the goal of setting the action agenda to unite all levels of researchers, public policymakers, and industry representatives across and beyond Europe to discuss sustainability around the theme “Green ICT and ICT for Green”. Find a summary of workshop outcomes and related working group activities from all years under the "Outcomes" tab below.

WG Goal: Developing and understanding efficient, optimized ICT infrastructure with minimal environmental impact, while simultaneously leveraging these technologies to further sustainability in all societal sectors.

Double Perspective: Green ICT and ICT for Green.

Pillars: Energy accountability, Human-centered, Interdisciplinarity, Measuring, Policies, Sustainable design, Tooling

• submission of a COST Action proposal;
• set up of a LEAP study at the European level;
• working on a white paper on Green ICT metrics and best practices.

Interested in contributing to this working group? Please register here or contact us via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

• Working Group
• Outcomes

• Current members:

  • Monica Vitali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Chair)
  • Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Mina Alipour, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  • Manel Barkallah, University of Namur, Belgium
  • Mikkel Baun Kjaergaard, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Nicolas Bique, SVIA SSIE SSII Schweiz - Verein für Informatik in der Ausbildung, Switzerland
  • Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
  • Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
  • Ilche Georgievski, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Gabriele Gianini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
  • Kawsar Haghshenas, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
  • Brian Keegan, TU Dublin, Ireland
  • Monica Landoni, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
  • Julian Legler, TU Berlin, Germany
  • Ciarán O'Leary, TU Dublin, Ireland 
  • Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgium
  • Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland
  • Ina Schieferdecker, TU Berlin, Germany
  • Lucía Serrano-Luján, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
  • Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
  • Sebastian Werner, TU Berlin, Germany

  Past Chairs:

  • Marco Aiello, University of Stuttgart, Germany (2023-2025)
  • Marina Jirotka, University of Oxford, UK (Sustainability Working Group, 2022)
• • ECSS 2025: Green ICT and ICT for Green Workshop
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    Date: October 2025 
    Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2025 workshop, held in Rennes on 29 October 2025.
  
  
  • ECSS 2024: Green ICT and ICT for Green Workshop
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    Date: October 2024 
    Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2024 workshop, held in Malta on 29 October 2024.
  
  
  • ECSS 2023: Green ICT and ICT for Green Workshop
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    Date: October 2023 
    Details: Workshop description and presentation slides from the ECSS 2023 workshop, held in Edinburgh on 25 October 2023.