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Dear Members,
Welcome to the July edition of our monthly Bulletin. We hope you enjoy it!
In this issue:
ECSS 2020 Registrations Open!
Registration is open for the 16th European Computer Science Summit, ECSS 2020, to 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. This year’s edition focuses on the theme: Diversity in Informatics Research and Education. More details on the program can be found on the ECSS 2020 website.
We hope that you will join us for an exciting Summit this year. Stay tuned for all up-to-date information also in our LinkedIn group and on Twitter!
Member Service: Academic Leadership - Past Webinar and New Development Course
 On 25 June 2020 Informatics Europe hosted the webinar "Creating the New Academic Normal for Informatics Researchers", which provided a unique opportunity for Informatics researchers to reflect, and exchange with colleagues from all over Europe, on the impact of the changes resulting from the pandemic on their personal and working lives. You can find more information on the webinar including links to video recordings and further outcomes of the vivid discussion about the emerging New Academic Normal by visiting our news article.
During the webinar, there was a proposal to start a working group exploring the impact of Covid-19 on Informatics research, education, and academic life in general. If you would like to join or chair the working group, please contact us at administration@informatics-europe.org.
Finally, we would like to remind you that in September – November 2020 Informatics Europe will organize an online Academic Leadership Development Course for emerging academic leaders in Informatics and Computing. This will be a highly interactive and practical course by computer scientists for computer scientists, co-led again by Prof. Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Prof. Austen Rainer.
Association News
Board Meetings
- Friday, 17 July, 14:30-17:00, Skype (Executive Committee)
- Friday, 31 July, 16:00-17:00, Skype
- Friday, 28 August, 16:00-17:00, Skype
- Friday, 18 September, 09:30-16:30 , Skype or Milan (Executive Committee)
- Friday, 25 September, 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 member:
 SIRA - Swiss Informatics Research Association
They joined a growing membership of over 140 institutions from 33 European countries. Check out our current member list.
New Office Staff
We are happy to welcome Wieneke Emans to the Informatics Europe team! She started on 01 July working in the role of Executive Assistant - Projects, Events and Finances and works part time on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Originally from the Netherlands, Wieneke holds a Master in 'International Economics and Business' and is currently studying 'Coaching, Supervision and Mediation'. She has solid experience in the field of finance and management, which she acquired working in several non-profit organisations.
We wish Wieneke a lot of success in her new role!
She can be contacted by email at: wieneke.emans@informatics-europe.org.
Members News
West University of Timisoara, Romania - SYNASC 2020
The Department of Informatics within the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics organizes together with the Institute of Symbolic Computing of Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria and the e-Austria Institute Timisoara, between 1-4 September 2020, the 22nd edition of the Symposium 'International Syposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing - SYNASC 2020'.
For further information, please click here.
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands - Amsterdam Data Science Blog
Amsterdam Data Science initiated a new activity of a blog page, where senior people in the network are asked to write a short piece on a salient topic for their partners - people interested in Data Science & AI research in Amsterdam.
Topics to date include:
- A Practitioner’s Perspective on Fairness in AI
- Estimating Reproducibility of AI Research
- The Data Studio: Innovating How We Learn and Teach Data Science and AI
- The Role of Corporates in AI Ecosystems.
You can find out more on the Amsterdam Data Science Blog.
Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Stefano Zanero represents Politecnico at SCCG
As Politecnico di Milano representative, Stefano Zanero has been selected as a member of the Stakeholders Cybersecurity Certification Group (SCCG). Zanero’s research interests focus on computer security, particularly automated malware, critical and cyber-physical systems security, and forensics analysis. SCCG is the new group created by the European Commission and the European Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA) as an advisory body on strategic issues on cybersecurity certification. It will assist the Commission preparing EU work programmes. Its objective, as set out in the EU Cybersecurity Act, adopted a year ago, is to create market-oriented certification schemes to reduce fragmentation between the various systems existing in the EU Member States.
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