Informatics Europe Bulletin - June 2021

Dear Members,

Welcome to the June edition of our monthly Bulletin. We hope you enjoy it! 

In this issue:

IE Sponsorship for womENcourage™ 2021

We are happy to announce that Informatics Europe provides sponsorship of 1,500 € for the 8th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage™ 2021. The conference with the main theme ‘Bridging Communities to Foster Innovation’, will be held virtually 22-24 September 2021. The money is granted to provide scholarships to waive the registration fee for individuals belonging to Informatics Europe member institutions, with priority given to women. Thus, it is a pleasure to confirm that all Informatics Europe members who applied for the scholarship at womENcourage 2021 were accepted thanks to the IE sponsorship provided. With this and further initiatives, Informatics Europe will continue contributing to the task of closing the gender gap in Informatics in Europe.

ECSS 2021 - First Call for Participation

The Call for Participation - ECSS 2021 is now online. Save the date and spread the word in your community:

ECSS 2021 - 17th European Computer Science Summit
“Informatics for a Sustainable Future”
Hybrid event, with on-site sessions & networking activities in Madrid
25 – 27 October 2021

Registration for the ECSS 2021 will open soon!

Ethics4EU Online Workshop: “Can we do better in Digital Ethics?”

On the 15th of June, Institut Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis hosted an online workshop on Digital Ethics. The event was a great success and included presentations from researchers, teachers, journalists, politicians and industry professionals as well as a students' poster competition. The keynotes presented were “New Frontiers in Decision Engineering: Information Ethics as an Engineering Discipline”, “Teaching Critical-Safety Systems Considering Digital Ethics”, “What world do we want to live in? Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Europe” as well as “Digital Ethics in H2020 Projects Preparation”.

You can read more about the event here.

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As in this Erasmus+ Project Ethics4 EU - Ethical Computer Science Education for Europe, Informatics Europe is ready to support our members as a partner in EU funded projects. Our unique strength is the possibility to reach over 30 countries and more than 150 members. Informatics Europe can contribute to projects by networking, disseminating activities and results, sharing awareness and best practices, providing access to experts, and access to data collection. We can also rely on the work and expertise of our working groups on Data Collection, Ethics, Informatics Education, Research Evaluation, and Women in Informatics Research and Education.

Member Achievements

Informatics Europe is delighted to congratulate Prof. Letizia Jaccheri from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, for being selected as the 2021 winner of the Norwegian Oda Prize, which recognizes exceptional women who have made concrete contributions to increase diversity in the technology industry.

For more information have a look at the EurekAlert! news article.

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In our monthly Bulletin, we would like to share and value the achievements of our members with the entire community and invite you to submit your news to Franziska Hauffe!

Association News

Board Meetings

• Thursday, 8 July and Friday, 9 July, 13:00-17:00, online (Executive Committee only)
• Friday, 30 July, 16:00-17:00, online
• Friday, 27 August, 16:00-17:00, online 

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 Members

We are very pleased to welcome the following new member:

• Pedagogical University Vaud, Media, digital use and informatics didactics Teaching and Research

Member News

Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Politecnico di Milano is a partner of the HERMES project

Prof. Fabrizio Ferrandi of Politecnico di Milano’s Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria and his research team will participate in the HERMES project, which started on March 30th, 2021. Co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, HERMES (High-pErformance pRogrammable Microprocessor and dEvelopment of Software ecosystem) is the final step to finalize the NG-ULTRA development activity supporting the development of all critical software tools ecosystem and qualifying the NG-ULTRA in ceramic CGA 1760 package. HERMES will provide the European space industry with key enabling technology. It will offer European space agencies and major customers the state-of-the-art components they need without worrying about exportation regulations. Additional markets beyond aerospace will also be addressed. The main goal of HERMES is indeed to validate and ESCC evaluate a state of the art rad-hard FPGA by integrating all the enabling design and manufacturing technologies needed to deliver high reliability, radiation-hardened integrated circuits.

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This space is available to include relevant news from our member institutions. If you would like to share your news, please contact Franziska Hauffe.

New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job Platform

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