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Informatics in Schools: Outcomes

  • Informatics for All Response to the AI Literacy Framework for Primary and Secondary Education
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    Date: September 2025
    Details: The "Informatics for All" coalition welcomes the AI Literacy Framework as a timely and practical guide for teachers, praising its clear domains and useful classroom scenarios. To maximise impact, it recommends clearer terminology, stronger links to digital competence and Informatics, and a more realistic scope for the “Designing AI” domain.

  • A European Survey on Requirements for the Informatics School Curriculum and Informatics School Teachers’ Education
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    Date: April 2025
    Details: A report presenting findings from a Europe-wide study led by the "Informatics for All" coalition, aimed at identifying shared priorities for informatics education in schools. With input from 28 countries, the study highlights strong consensus on recognizing informatics as an autonomous subject, the need to integrate contemporary topics such as AI and data science, and the importance of specialised teacher training. 

  • ECSS 2022: Education Workshop
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    Date: October 2022 
    Details: Workshop highlights and presentation slides featured in Informatics Europe’s European Computer Science Summit, held in Hamburg on 26 October 2022.

  • Eurydice report "Informatics Education at School in Europe"
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    Date: October 2022
    Details: Coalition member Prof. Enrico Nardelli contributed as Scientific Expert to the Eurydice report, which examines the subjects throughout primary and secondary education, including learning outcomes related to Informatics in 37 European countries (39 education systems). Sonia Piedrafita Tremosa from the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) gave a presentation about the report during the Education Workshop at ECSS 2022. 

  • Report "Designing and Implementing a Concrete Informatics Curriculum for School"
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    Date: June 2022
    Details: This document focuses on pedagogical issues and related concerns that should be considered when using the Informatics Reference Framework for School for the development of concrete curricula.

  • Report "Informatics Reference Framework for School"
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    Date: February 2022
    Details: A report released by the coalition "Informatics for All" which supports the advancement of informatics as a fundamental discipline for the 21st century, while indicating how informatics may become a driver for renewal and innovation of other disciplines. In November 2023, the European Council issued recommendations for improving the provision of digital skills in education and training, taking into account Informatics for All's Informatics Reference Framework for School.

  • ECSS 2020: Diversity in Informatics Research and Education
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    Date: October 2020
    Details: Videos and slides of presentations featured in Informatics Europe’s European Computer Science Summit in 2020.

  • Position Paper: “Educating People for the Digital Age”
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    Date: March 2020
    Details: The paper was prepared as an outcome of the Informatics for All workshop webinar where the Coalition's work was presented and discussed with representatives of the European Commission about their new plans regarding the promotion of Informatics education in Europe at school level.

  • Informatics for All Coalition Action Plan
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    Date: March 2019
    Details: The action plan of the Informatics for All Coalition was developed as an outcome of the workshop. The plan forms the basis of the Coalition activities.

  • Informatics for All 2019 Workshop Report & Presentations
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    Date: February 2019
    Details: The report is the outcome of the workshop held in Brussels where over 50 representatives from leading European universities and industry met.

  • Discussion panel on the Informatics for All Strategy
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    Date: March 2018
    Details: Panel on the Informatics for All Startegy was held in Brussels with leading Informatics educators, computer scientists and European Commission leaders who discussed the initiative, its implementation and the near-term future of Informatics education in Europe.

  • The Informatics for All initiative Strategy Paper
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    Date: February 2018
    Details: The paper is one of the outcomes of the Informatics for All Initiative with the purpose of giving due recognition to Informatics as an essential foundational discipline for education in the 21st century. The paper highlights the need for a two-tier strategy for Informatics education at all levels: (1) informatics as a specialisation, i.e. a fundamental and independent school subject; (2) integration of Informatics with other school subjects. Important recommendations on Informatics, teaching, teacher issues and research are provided.

  • Report: “Informatics Education in Europe: Are We All in The Same Boat?”
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    Date: July 2017
    Details: The report on the state of the art of Informatics, Digital Literacy, and Teacher Training in these disciplines in European schools. Check the supplementary online map for visual and interactive report results.

  • Report: “Informatics Education: Europe cannot afford to miss the boat”
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    Date: April 2013
    Details: The first joint Informatics Europe and ACM Europe working group landmark report. 

Informatics in Schools: Resources

The list below provides links to relevant initiatives, websites, papers, talks, conferences, blogs on the topic of Information and Computer Sciences education. It is not an exhaustive list so a number of relevant resources might have been omitted. We would be glad to include new relevant entries, if you would like to suggest them, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Informatics Europe is very grateful to Prof. Jan van Leeuwen who kindly provided the initial list of resources.

General Reports

Basic Principles

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Organisational Activities

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Research Evaluation

Informatics Europe supports Informatics research by promoting quality standards and best practices across diverse areas in the field.

In 2008, Informatics Europe published the "Research Evaluation for Computer Science" report. The report was a pioneering effort to establish best practices for the evaluation of researchers in Europe. Building on the CRA’s work in the US, the report became a key reference for Informatics departments and colleagues across Europe and was later featured in Communications of the ACM.

Over the past decade, research evaluation has evolved significantly: pressure for using quantitative measures got even stronger, open-source publications and archives have been established, new solutions have appeared around the debate on conferences vs. journals, new conference rankings are available, artifact evaluation is rising, transfer to industry and society is more and more encouraged, and the use of indexes and bibliometrics has become even stronger. In response, Informatics Europe launched a working group in 2016 to reassess these developments, leading to an updated set of recommendations in 2018.

The second revision of the final report on "Informatics Research Evaluation" was released in March 2025, addressing ongoing challenges and emerging trends. 

More about our achievements and other contributions to research evaluation in Informatics can be found under the tab “Resources”.

Research Evaluation: Outcomes

  • Informatics Research Evaluation, 2025 Revised Report
    Summary ¦¦ Full Report 
    Date: March 2025
    Details: Revised version of the report published in 2018 with updated recommendations on Informatics research evaluation.

  • News Section: “Research Evaluation in Informatics” 
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    Date: April 2018 
    Details: A section about “Research Evaluation in Informatics" was published in the ERCIM News (Issue 113). 

  • Informatics Research Evaluation, 2018 Revised Report
    Summary ¦¦ Full Report
    Date: March 2018 
    Details: Updating the contents and reinforcing the lasting issues raised in the previous IE report on research evaluation.

  • Research Evaluation Activity Progress Update
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    Date: 24 October 2017
    Details: An update on the progress of the Research Evaluation activity was presented at the special session on Informatics Europe activities during the ECSS 2017.

  • Discussion Panel on Research Evaluation
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    Date: 26 October 2016
    Details: A discussion panel on Research Evaluation was held as part of the program of the ECSS 2016.

  • Paper "Research Evaluation for Computer Science"
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    Date: April 2009
    Details: Viewpoint about the Research Evaluation for Computer Science published in the Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52 No. 4, Pages 31-34, 2009. 

  • Report "Research Evaluation for Computer Science"
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    Date: 20 May 2008
    Details: The first version of the report detailing the evaluation of research in computer science. 

Research Evaluation: Resources

CRA

Académie des Sciences, Leopoldina and Royal Society

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Informatics in Schools

Fostering high-quality education in Informatics is one of the pillars of Informatics Europe. We are committed to promoting informatics education as one of the fundamentals in modern education across Europe. Here are some of our activity and achievement highlights:

(2012 - 2017) Committee on European Computing Education (CECE), in partnership with ACM Europe

Informatics Europe, in partnership with ACM Europe, has been since 2012 proactively working on the matter of Informatics education in schools. The first outcome of this work was the landmark report "Informatics Education: Europe cannot afford to miss the boat", published in 2013. To follow up on this work the Committee on European Computing Education (CECE) was convened in 2014, the goal was to collect data on the current status of Informatics education across Europe. The outcome of three years of intensive work by the CECE is the major report on the state of art of education in Informatics, Digital Literacy, and Teacher Training in these disciplines in Europe: Informatics Education in Europe: Are We All in the Same Boat? The report is supplemented by an online map (cece-map.informatics-europe.org) where the results of the study can be explored visually and interactively. More information about the map is also presented in the publication "The CECE Report: Creating a Map of Informatics in European Schools".

(2017 - Present) Informatics for All initiative, incl. Informatics Reference Framework for School

In 2017, the Informatics for All initiative was created to move the recommendations of the CECE report forward. Informatics for All is a coalition that aims at getting academia, industry, government, and society together to influence education policy in Europe toward the full recognition and establishment of Informatics as a foundational discipline in schools.

In February 2018, the paper Informatics for All: The Strategy presenting a detailed strategy for the initiative was published. The paper has been distributed to key members of the European Commission who joined members of the Informatics Europe Board and the ACM Europe Council for a constructive discussion panel held in Brussels on March 15, 2018.

In February 2019, the Informatics for All coalition hosted a hands-on workshop in Brussels for over 50 representatives from leading European universities and industry where the top challenges for the initiative were identified and discussed. An important output of this workshop is the Action Plan that was developed and this forms the basis of Coalition activities in the coming months. 

Following the successful 2019 Workshop, the Informatics for All coalition planned a second Workshop on 17th March 2020. The event was scheduled to take place in Brussels, however due to COVID-19 outbreak, a Workshop Webinar took place. The video recording and presentations held during the Webinar can be found here. In addition, a Position Paper was prepared for the public consultation on the renovation of EC Digital Education Action Plan which preceded this event.

In April 2022, IE President Prof. Enrico Nardelli and Board Member Prof. Michael E. Caspersen, IE representatives in the Informatics for All coalition, have been invited to present the “Informatics Reference Framework for School” to the European Commission (EC) at a stakeholder consultation meeting in Brussels, in preparation for a Council Recommendation on improving the provision of digital skills in education and training. The Reference Framework was published in February 2022 as a report to support the advancement of informatics as a fundamental discipline for the 21st century. During the meeting, the Reference Framework was discussed with Antoaneta Angelova-Krasteva, Director for ‘Innovation, Digital Education and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), European Commission, and Georgi Dimitrov, Head of the ‘Digital Education’ Unit in the same Directorate. The vision proposed in the Framework, which provides a minimum set of high-level common requirements, leaving space for the national communities in various countries to derive fully-fledged curricula both attuned to their culture and needs, and coherent with a common European vision of informatics, has been highly appreciated.

In June 2022, the Designing and Implementing a Concrete Informatics Curriculum for School was published. This document focuses on pedagogical issues and related concerns that should be considered when using the Informatics Reference Framework for School for the development of concrete curricula.

The Eurydice report "Informatics education at school in Europe" is published in October 2022, with Prof. Enrico Nardelli as the report's Scientific Expert, examining the subjects throughout primary and secondary education, including learning outcomes related to informatics in 37 European countries (39 education systems). The report also looks at the qualifications of the teachers of these subjects, training programmes, and other support measures available to them.

In late 2023, taking into account Informatics for All's Informatics Reference Framework for School, the European Council issued recommendations on improving the provision of digital skills in education and training.

(2021 - Present) IE at EU Commission Expert Groups

From July 2021 to October 2022, Prof. Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano), served as Informatics Europe representative at the EU Commission Expert Group on AI and Data in Education and Training. The group assisted the Directorate General for Education, Youth, Sports, and Culture with the preparation of practical guidelines for primary and secondary school educators, with concrete practices on the ethical use of AI and data in education and training. This work also supported collaboration among stakeholders and raised awareness of both the opportunities and risks associated with AI and data in education.

The resulting document, the Ethical guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence and data in teaching and learning for educators, was published by the European Commission on 25 October 2022. Informatics Europe is proud to have initiated and contributed to this important work. Learn more via the EU Commission press corner page, the article on europa.eu, and the article on DEAP website.

Since June 2024, IE Board Director Enrico Nardelli and members of the Education Research Working Group—Michael E. Caspersen, Violetta Lonati, and Keith Quille—have been part of the EU Commission Expert Group for the development of guidelines on high-quality Informatics. The group meets regularly to develop guidelines supporting European countries in strengthening informatics education in schools.

We also run petitions to advocate informatics for all at the European level, and support national associations in doing the same at their local level. Take action and sign them!

  • Rome Declaration: join us to make Informatics accessible to all, throughout Europe.
  • Joint manifesto "Por la Informática en España", supporting our member institutions SCIE, and CODDII to promote the extension of informatics education at all levels of the educational system in Spain.

Read more about our task forces, summaries of outcomes, and resources related to Informatics in Schools in the tabs below.

Overview of our Research Activities

Informatics Europe strives to enhance research quality in informatics by advocating for and promoting quality standards and best practices across various informatics domains. Specifically, our activities focus on the following areas:

Department Assessment Servicecorporate

With over 160 member institutes, Informatics Europe has access to a large pool of experts in all areas of computer science. We offer department assessment services with the focus of enhancing the research and education quality of your department, faculty or institute. 

 

Open Science science

Informatics Europe supports the promotion of transparency and accessibility of research. In late 2021, we started the Open Citations initiative. Our member institutes also have the opportunity to join our open science working group.

 

Research Evaluationsearch

In collaboration with other European and international organizations, we work on proposing guidelines and recommendations to improve the way researchers are evaluated in Informatics and closely related areas.

 

Best Dissertation Awardsearch

Sponsored by Springer, we annually recognize an outstanding PhD dissertation in informatics from one of Informatics Europe’s member universities or research institutes. Our aim is to inspire young researchers, acknowledge their contributions and disseminate excellent research with the Informatics Europe community and beyond.

Check out our research activities and services in-depth on our respective web pages under our website's main menu “Research”.

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Gender Diversity: Working Group

2022 - Gender equality activities coordinated by the Diversity and Inclusion Working Group.

2021-2024 - Most WIRE members hold leadership positions in the EUGAIN COST Action. 

2012-2020 - "Women in Informatics Research and Education" (WIRE) Working Group

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

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