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The article published in the "Communication of the ACM" journal presents the Informatics Europe Higher Education Data Portal and offers - by way of case-study research - a data-driven perspective over how Informatics education can be studied and improved in a data driven-fashion. 

The article published in "ACM Inroads" provides background and an overview of the Informatics Reference Framework for School, released by the "Informatics for All" coalition in February 2022. 

The article, published in the International Journal of Ethics Education as part of the Ethics4EU project explores the increasing emphasis on computer ethics within Informatics education. Drawing on a survey of 61 universities across 23 European countries, it examines whether computer ethics is taught, why or why not, who teaches it, and how it’s integrated into the curriculum. The findings highlight the growing recognition of ethical issues such as privacy, AI, surveillance, and the need to better prepare students to navigate these challenges. 

This paper is mainly based on discussions in working groups and the material collected for and during a series of talks on the topic held by the first author and by feedback received by the community. This paper provides the academic community, policymakers, industry and other stakeholders with numerous examples of best practices, as well as studies and recommendations on how to address key challenges about attracting, retaining, encouraging, and inspiring women to pursue a career in Computer Science. The paper was presented at the 22nd International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing (SYNASC) and has been partially supported by the COST Action CA19122 – European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics (EUGAIN).

The article published in the "Communication of the ACM" journal describes the current state of the Informatics education at the European scene, outlines main statements, actions and outcomes of the Informatics for All Initiative and explains main challenges related to the realization of the Informatics for All Strategy across Europe.

The editorial published in the ‘Communications of the ACM’ journal summarises the main points of the Informatics Europe and ACM Europe joint report “When Computers Decide”. Authors: James Larus and Chris Hankin.

The paper presented in the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE-2018) introduces the 2017 CECE report "Informatics Education in Europe: Are We All in the Same Boat?". It offers a comparative overview of Informatics and Digital Literacy education across 55 European regions, highlighting challenges such as terminology differences, teacher shortages, and curriculum implementation, and introduces an interactive webmap (cece-map.informatics-europe.org) for exploring the data.

This paper is based on the contributions to the Workshop on the Role and Relevance of Experimentation in Informatics, organised in conjunction with the 8th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2012) in Barcelona.