Policy Recommendations
Empowering Members and Shaping the Future of the Discipline
Informatics Europe is involved in shaping public policy on Informatics research and education by producing policy documents such as statements, positions, reports, recommendations, or feedback to public consultations on issues that relate to any of the goals of the organisation. Recommendations may refer to specific stakeholders or may have a broader audience. In particular, the policy recommendations activity aims at empowering members in developing their own strategies (e.g.: a policy recommendation on Research Evaluation can help member departments in their discussions with other departments, with their university management, and with their governments). You can explore our existing outcomes at the bottom of this page.
Permanent Working Group
In order to go beyond personal biases and opinions, in 2022 Informatics Europe set up a permanent working group with volunteering representatives of national associations (which are members of Informatics Europe) to establish a consensus on how to answer such public consultations. The working group is composed of:
- The Director of IE high-level activity on policy recommendations, playing the role of the working group coordinator;
- A representative of each national association that is currently a member of Informatics Europe. This representative is nominated by his/her national association. Visit the WG members at the bottom of this page for details. Visit the WG members at the bottom of this page for details.
Topics of interest are both proposed by Informatics Europe executive committee or by one of its member associations, and then approved by Informatics Europe’s board. Our goal is to focus on a few relevant statements every period (1-2 per year).
Work on producing policy documents is typically carried out online in a white box mode (using e.g. GoogleDoc), i.e. each member of the working group is welcome to contribute until a consensus is reached. When a unified position cannot be reached, we could aim at a ‘state-of-the-art’ summary of positions.
Depending on the nature of the policy recommendation, the outcome could be a single document co-signed by all the active stakeholders, or a resource on which members of the working group can tap to answer, e.g. a poll. In any case, its result will be published on the Informatics Europe website after one or more rounds of feedback from our members.
providing a set of policy recommendations directed to policymakers, at national and European level. It contains concise and practical measures that policymakers can adopt to support gender balance in Informatics.
Policy statement prepared by the Board of Directors of Informatics Europe regarding the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), a European regulatory initiative, aiming at increasing the quality and security standards of IT products.
Ethical guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence and data in teaching and learning for educators prepared by the EU Commission Expert Group on AI and Data in Education and Training, where Prof. Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano), represented Informatics Europe.
Feedback provided by Informatics Europe to the European Commission for public consultation on the formulation of a set of principles to promote and uphold EU values in the digital space.
Feedback provided by Informatics Europe on the Draft Report of the Computing Curricula 2020 (CC2020) task force. CC2020 is a joint project launched by professional computing societies to examine the current curricular guidelines for academic degree programs in Computing and provide a vision for the future of Computing.
Feeback provided by Informatics Europe to the European Commission Public Consultation Questionnaire regarding the White Paper on Artificial Intelligence - A European Approach.
Feedback provided by Informatics Europe to the European Commission Online Consultation Questionnaire regarding the European Strategy for Data.
Joint Statement issued by Informatics Europe and the undersigned National Informatics Associations.
Policy statement prepared by the Board of Directors of Informatics Europe regarding the use of tracking technology in the efforts to control COVID-19 infection spread.
Joint white paper of Informatics Europe Ethics Working Group and ACM Europe on automated decision making (ADM).
Here are our initiatives seeking community endorsement - sign and share among your communities!
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"Open Citations Letter", an initiative started in January 2022, to convince all major publishers in the area of Informatics to freely share their bibliographic metadata and citation data.
- "Rome Declaration", established in March 2019, an appeal to national and international institutions to promote Informatics education in school and for all citizens.
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Current members:
- Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU, Norway (Chair)
- Roderick Bloem, Informatik Austria, Austria
- Maike Klein, GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik, Germany
- Pierre Paradinas, SIF - Société Informatique de France, France
- Silvio Peroni, GRIN - Associazione Italiana dei Docenti Universitari di Informatica, Italy
- Heike Trautmann, FTI - Fakultätentag Informatik, Germany
- Antonio Vallecillo, SCIE - Sociedad Científica Informática de España, Spain
Past members:
- Hannes Werthner, TU Wien, Austria
- Elisabeth Schauermann, GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik, Germany