Minerva Informatics Equality Award
The Minerva Informatics Equality Award (MIEA) recognises outstanding European initiatives and best practices that encourage and support women's careers in Informatics research and education.
This year the Award marks its 10th edition, and nominations are now open!
The Award recognises impactful initiatives that have successfully supported women's careers at all stages in Informatics research and education. These initiatives serve as best practice exemplars, inspiring broader adoption across institutions.
Until 2022, the Award followed a three-year cycle, each year focusing on a different career stage. As of 2023, the Award considers initiatives at any stage of the career pipeline, including but not limited to:
- Encouraging female students to enrol and persist in Informatics/Computer Science programmes;
- Supporting PhD and postdoctoral researchers in transitioning to faculty positions;
- Advancing the careers of female faculty through retention and promotion.
The Award carries a prize of 5,000 EUR.
Nominations for the Award are open to individuals or groups. Eligible nominees should be affiliated with institutions located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe, or Israel. Members of the Award Committee are not eligible as Award recipients.
The Award Committee will review all nominations and reserves the right to divide the prize between up to two winners. Additionally, to encourage the broader adoption of gender equality initiatives, all nominated entries will be showcased as best practice exemplars on our webpage here and may be featured in future Informatics Europe publications.
Key Dates
- Submission Deadline: 2 June 2025
- Notification of winner(s): late August 2025
- Award Ceremony: 28 October 2025
The Award will be presented during the 21st European Informatics Leaders Summit (ECSS), which will be held in Rennes (France), between October 27-29, 2025, where a representative of the winning proposal(s) will be invited to give a short talk on their achievements.
How to Submit
Your submission package should include:
- Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants;
- Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an individual or a group;
- A brief summary or abstract (100 words or less) which can be made public;
- Description of the initiative (max 2 pages);
- Evidence of its impact (max 2 pages);
- An optional reference list (which may include URLs of supporting materials);
- At least one letter of support and a maximum of two. The letters of support may come, for example, from female faculty members who have benefited from the scheme, or the Dean/Head of the organization of the applying Institution confirming impact;
- The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 copy-right licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0), as an indication that the submission can, among others, be featured as an exemplar of best practices on the Informatics Europe webpage and possible future Informatics Europe publications.
Submit the nomination via our EasyChair platform here: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=miea2025
Submissions not conforming to the above rules and applications outside of the scope of the Award will be rejected without consideration and notification.
Further inquires:
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2025 Award Committee
- Sarah Jane Delany, TU Dublin, Ireland (Chair)
- Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca
- Luca Forlizzi, University of L’Aquila, Italy
- Ana-Belén Gil-González, University of Salamanca, Spain
- Jose David Patón-Romero, Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet), Norway
- Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo, ELTE Budapest, Hungary