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Dear Members,
Welcome to the June edition of our monthly Bulletin. We hope you enjoy it!
In this issue:
ECSS 2020 Program Online! Opening by the European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
The 16th edition - ECSS 2020 - will be held via Zoom, 26-28 October 2020. The conference this year will consist of the main summit of three days composed of a number of complementary online events and sessions.
We are proud to announce that the conference will be opened on Monday, October 26, with a speech by Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth. She will be opening the first session, on the topic Informatics Education, of the Workshop for Leaders of Informatics Research and Education. The session will include also a presentation and discussion on the Informatics for All initiative and the European Commission Digital Education Action Plan. The following sessions of the Leaders Workshop will focus on the central theme: “Post-Pandemic Ways for Learning and Researching in Informatics”.
On the morning of 27 October, Ewan Birney from the European Bioinformatics Institute and Vivian Lagesen from NTNU, will deliver presentations on two different aspects of “Diversity in Informatics Research and Education”. The afternoon session will include presentations by the winners of the two Informatics Europe Annual Awards. A Dialogue with Members Session including the Informatics Europe Annual General Assembly will also take place.
The ECSS 2020 closes on Wednesday, 28 October, with two special workshops. In the morning, the National Associations Workshop on "Interdisciplinarity and Informatics" and in the afternoon, the 2020 Women in Informatics Research and Education Workshop.
More details on the program can be found on the ECSS 2020 website.
Academic Leadership Development Course - Online Workshop Sessions
Informatics Europe will be organizing early Autumn an online Academic Leadership Development Course for emerging academic leaders in Informatics and Computing. This will be a highly interactive, practical, experiential course by computer scientists for computer scientists, co-led by Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Prof. Austen Rainer.
The course will consist of six 90-minute sessions, from early September to early November addressing:
- 15.09.2020 Session 1: Intro/overview
- 29.09.2020 Session 2: Leading Informatics in academia
- 06.10.2020 Session 3: Knowing ourselves, leading ourselves
- 20.10.2020 Session 4: Leading others - building collegial environments
- 03.11.2020 Session 5: Leading others - having effective conversations
- 17.11.2020 Session 6: Connecting leaders & where next
Feedback European Commission Consultations and CC2020
Informatics Europe has provided feedback to two key public consultations from the European Commission: one regarding the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence - A European Approach and another regarding the European Strategy for Data.
Feedback was also provided on the Draft Report of the Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) task force. CC2020 is a joint project launched by ACM and IEEE to examine the current curricular guidelines for academic degree programs in Computing and provide a vision for the future of Computing.
GCSA Nominations 2020
The European Commission has started the process of renewal of the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (GCSA). Together with ACM Europe Council, Informatics Europe agreed to put forward the nomination of Carlo Ghezzi, ACM Fellow and past President of Informatics Europe.
Click here, to find out more about the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors and its current members.
Association News
Board Meetings
- Friday, 26 June, 16:00-17:00, Skype
- Friday, 31 July, 16:00-17:00, Skype
- Friday, 28 August, 16:00-17:00, Skype
Don’t forget: as a member representative, you can submit agenda topics and participate as an observer in Board meetings. Let us know in case you are interested in this offer!
New Informatics Europe Members
We are very pleased to welcome the following new members:
They joined a growing membership of over 140 institutions from 33 European countries. Check out our current member list. Members News
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Survey on the impact of the transition from face-to-face to online teaching in Software Engineering courses
Prof. Simona Motogna and Prof. Arthur Molnar from the Department of Mathematics and Informatics are conducting a survey that aims to investigate how the transition from face-to-face to online teaching during the COVID19 outbreak have impacted student learning assessment in Software Engineering courses. The survey will help to identify good practices but also to prepare better the community, if such a situation will ever appear again.
The project calls for the help and participation of the community. The participation is anonymous, answering will take at most 10 minutes. If you want to contribute, please complete the online survey.
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Special Issue on “New paradigms of software production and deployment”
This special issue aims to provide the most recent stages of what is being done in the area of Software Engineering targeting modern software development methods.
Important dates:
- 15 July 2020: Submission deadline for special issue extended abstracts
- 15 August 2020: Chosen authors will be invited to submit papers
- 30 November 2020: Invited papers due
- 31 March 2021: Reviews/decisions returned to authors
Click here, to access the complete call for papers available.
TU Wien, Austria - DIGHUM Presents Monthly Online Lectures on Digital Humanism
Starting in June 2020, DIGHUM presents a series of online lectures to discuss the different aspects of Digital Humanism. Every second Tuesday of each month – at 5:00 pm CEST, TU Wien, Austria organizes an online event, featuring a speaker on a specific topic (30 minutes), followed by a discussion of 30 minutes.
The next session will take place as follow:
Alfonso Fuggetta (Politecnico di Milano, Italy): Deploying Covid-19 Digital Contact Tracing solutions across national borders - health control vs. democracy?
- Discussant: Jeff Kramer (Imperial College London, UK),
- Date and time: 14 July 2020 at 5:00 pm CEST.
Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Ketonet, the app for the management of the ketogenic diet
Thanks to Ketonet, an app developed by the DEIB team of Prof. Baresi in collaboration with the Associazione Italiana Glut1 and the University of Pavia, it will be even easier for patients and their families to build their own ketogenic meals, to keep in constant contact with their reference doctors and to exchange food information and clinical data. For the deficiency of Glut1, a very rare neurological pathology of genetic origin, the ketogenic diet is currently the only treatment available to keep symptoms under control. Thanks to this IT tool, the families of these patients have thus received great support in the creation of meals, which require extreme care in the dosage and the choice of "permitted" foods.
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