Promoting and inspiring excellence

Each year, Informatics Europe recognises outstanding initiatives that strengthen the quality, impact, and visibility of Informatics research and education across Europe.

Award candidates may nominate themselves or be nominated by others. The prestige of the Informatics Europe awards relies on the high calibre of the international award committees convened each year to review submissions. Award recipients are formally recognised during a dedicated ceremony at the annual European Informatics Leaders Summit.

Current Award

• Best Dissertation Award
  Debuting in 2023, the Best Dissertation Award celebrates exceptional doctoral research from early-career researchers from Informatics Europe member institutions. The award aims to encourage emerging researchers while disseminating excellent research outcomes to the Informatics Europe community and beyond.
  
  
• Minerva Informatics Equality Award.
  First presented in 2016, the Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises best practices in European university departments and research labs that actively support and advance the careers of women in Informatics research and education. 

Awards Seeking New Sponsors

• Best Practices in Education Award
  Initiated in 2011, the Best Practices in Education Award recognises educational initiatives that improve the quality of Informatics teaching and enhance the attractiveness of the discipline across Europe.

Supporting an Informatics Europe Award offers a visible and meaningful way to contribute to excellence, inclusion, and long-term impact in European Informatics research and education. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to explore Award sponsorship opportunities.

October 2016 - Award Winner and Ceremony at the ECSS 2016 in Budapest

The ALaDDIn project, proposed by Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo and Massimo Santini, from the ALaDDIn working group at the Computer Science Department, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, is the winner of the 2016 Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education Award. The Award was presented during the  12th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2016) in Budapest, Hungary, October 2016.

Read the winning Award submission.

 From left to right: Michael E. Caspersen,  Anna Morpurgo, Mattia Monga, Lynda Hardman.

The 2016 Award is devoted to curriculum and professional development initiatives that promote Informatics in schools as a mandatory subject for all students. Initiatives at the (upper) secondary level are particularly encouraged. The Award honors original contributions that focus on teaching Informatics fundamentals in schools. Experiences on using software or hardware tools to improve learning in other disciplines than Informatics are not considered.

About the 2016 Award

The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries a prize of  5,000

The Award can be given to an individual or to a group. To be eligible, participants must be located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe (www.coe.int), or Israel. Members of the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not eligible.

The Award Committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals (individuals or teams).

Award Committee:

• Michael E. Caspersen, Aarhus University (Chair)
• Gerard Berry, Collège de France
• Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow
• Judith Gal-Ezer, The Open University of Israel
• Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Lauri Malmi, Aalto University
• Carsten Schulte, Paderborn University
• Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano

Click here to reach the 2016 Call for submissions.