Recommendations

In response to the European Commission’s call for feedback on the proposals for regulations COM(2025)836 and COM(2025)837, which aim to simplify the digital legislative framework and the Digital Omnibus, Informatics Europe provides its recommendations aimed at strengthening AI research, education, and literacy in Europe, while supporting regulatory simplification, scientific sovereignty, and EU competitiveness.

Informatics Europe raises serious concerns about the rising costs and inequities of Gold Open Access publishing models. High APCs increasingly create a pay-to-publish system that disadvantages less-funded researchers and institutions. The statement calls for fairer pricing, stronger support for alternative publishing models such as Diamond and Green OA, and collective action to rebalance publishing toward transparency, equity, and academic integrity.

The Informatics for All (I4All) 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.

The primary purpose of this book is to serve as a comprehensive guide, translating research into best practices to promote gender inclusivity in informatics. The handbook seeks to empower its readers, providing them with actionable recommendations to bridge the gender gap in informatics. This initiative aims to have an immediate impact on the informatics community, raising awareness and interest through its practical resources, and on the society bringing more women into informatics and technological studies and following career steps. This publication is based upon work from COST Action EUGAIN CA19122 (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).  

The document presents a comprehensive set of recommendations for adapting student assessment methods in response to the growing influence of generative AI tools. It stems from the discussions held at “AI in Informatics Education and Professional Practice” workshop during ECSS 2024, organised in collaboration with National Informatics Associations.

Informatics Europe and member National Informatics Associations highlight a critical omission in the European Innovation Council (EIC) Work Programme 2025 - the absence of software as a key enabling technology. Despite being the backbone of digital innovation, software is overlooked, threatening Europe’s competitiveness, autonomy, and ability to tackle key challenges like cybersecurity and digital sustainability. This open letter underscores the urgent need for dedicated funding and public-private collaborations to strengthen Europe’s software research ecosystem. Read the full letter and join us in advocating for software as a core pillar of Europe’s innovation strategy.

The booklet provides a set of policy recommendations directed to policymakers, at national and European level. It contains concise and practical measures that policymakers can adopt to support gender balance in Informatics. This publication is based upon work from COST Action EUGAIN CA19122 (European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).  

In response to the "European Commission Expert Group on the Interim Evaluation of Horizon Europe", Informatics Europe shares its feedback on Horizon Europe and its successor, FP10, emphasizing Informatics as a key priority to advance education, research excellence, and societal impact.

Policy statement prepared by the Board of Directors of Informatics Europe regarding the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), a European regulatory initiative, aiming at increasing the quality and security standards of IT products.

There is a pressing need for guidelines and best practices for how to manage the impending transition and benefit from disruptive generative AI systems, such as the OpenAI tools ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. With endorsement by our national informatics association members, IE offers in this short publication the analysis and recommendations to the informatics academic community in the area of informatics education.

This document summarizes the evolution of scientific publication models towards providing open access to research results and makes recommendations from an academic standpoint on future action paths. This document has been endorsed by the National Informatics Associations that are members of Informatics Europe at the time of publishing it.

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. 

It is, in fact, of utmost importance to have have concrete curricula designed to take into account particular situations and needs in each country, as well as accommodating age and appropriate stages of development of pupils. An informatics curriculum should be designed for all pupils; equality, diversity and inclusion issues are crucial, including the important issue of gender balance.

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. It is a publication of the Informatics for All coalition, of which Informatics Europe is one of the founding members since 2018.

This Reference Framework has been presented to European Commission and further discussed at a stakeholder consultation meeting, on 6th April in Brussels, in preparation for a Council Recommendation on improving the provision of digital skills in education and training.

Feedback provided by Informatics Europe to the European Commission for public consultation on the formulation of a set of principles to promote and uphold EU values in the digital space.

Submitted to the European Commission on 2 Sep 2021.

Feedback provided by Informatics Europe on the Draft Report of the Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) task force. CC2020 is a joint project launched by professional computing societies to examine the current curricular guidelines for academic degree programs in Computing and provide a vision for the future of Computing.

Submitted to the CC2020 Steering Committee on 15 June 2020.

Feeback provided by Informatics Europe to the European Commission Public Consultation Questionnaire regarding the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence - A European Approach. 

Submitted to the European Commission on 11 June 2020.

Feedback provided by Informatics Europe to the European Commission Online Consultation Questionnaire regarding the European Strategy for Data.

Submitted to the European Commission on 29 May 2020.

Joint Statement on Informatics Research Evaluation issued by Informatics Europe and the undersigned National Informatics Associations. 

Policy statement prepared by the Board of Directors of Informatics Europe regarding the use of tracking technology in the efforts to control COVID-19 infection spread.

The paper is one of the outcomes of the Informatics for All Initiative, devised jointly by Informatics Europe and ACM Europe 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. The first tier takes the form of Informatics as a specialisation, i.e. a fundamental and independent school subject. The second tier would be the integration of Informatics with other school subjects. To achieve this goal, in both tiers research is needed to address what and how to teach (curriculum, methods and tools), and how to educate teachers. Important recommendations on Informatics, teacher issues and research are also provided. 

Joint white paper of Informatics Europe Ethics Working Group and ACM Europe on automated decision making (ADM). The white paper reviews the principal implications of the coming widespread adoption of machine-learned automated decision making with a particular emphasis on its technical, ethical, legal, economic, societal and educational ramifications. The authors also give a number of recommendations that policy makers might wish to consider.