2025 Minerva Informatics Equality Award
The Department of Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) wins the 2025 Minerva Informatics Equality Award for its long-standing and transformative commitment to empowering women in Informatics.
The Minerva Award, organised by Informatics Europe and celebrating successful initiatives that have had a measurable impact on the careers of women in all stages, was presented during the 21st European Informatics Leaders Summit (ECSS 2025), an in-person event in Rennes, France.
The honorary runner-up, Tallinn University of Technology’s Diversifying IT initiative, was also recognised for its innovative and tech-driven efforts to encourage women’s participation and advancement in Informatics.
Read the winning Award submission and learn what the winner and runner-up say about it in the post-ceremony press release.
| On the photo from left to right: Oana Andrei (Award Committee Member, University of Glasgow), Heri Ramampiaro and Letizia Jaccheri (Winner Representatives, Department of Computer Science, NTNU), Jean-Marc Jézéquel (Informatics Europe President), Simona Motogna (Chair of the IE WG on Diversity & Inclusion). |
We close this year's process by warmly thanking the 2025 Award Committee:
- Sarah Jane Delany, TU Dublin, Ireland (Chair)
- Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Oana Andrei, University of Glasgow, UK
- Elisabetta Fersini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
- 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