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Informatics (or Computing) has a fundamental impact on science, business, industry and society and thus on every facet of our daily lives. Informatics progresses steadily in the fundamental understanding of complex information processing systems and it leads to the marvels of Information Technology that are at the basis of many innovations, from intelligent systems to interactive services of unprecedented caliber. Informatics is seen by many as one of the leading disciplines of the 21st century, crucial to progress and economic growth, see e.g. IKT 2020 - Research for Innovation.

While companies and industries are increasingly dependent on the advances of Informatics and its technologies, many obstacles must be overcome in the development of the field. This is experienced daily by departments and research institutes everywhere: in securing their positions, in setting their strategies for the future, in acquiring research funds, in finding and keeping top researchers, in adjusting their PhD-, MSc-, and BSc-programs to the ever changing needs of science and society, in attracting students in sufficient numbers to the field, and in battling against wrong images of the field.

Summit 2009

The European Computer Science Summit 2009 is devoted to the place of Informatics among the Sciences and to the Scientific principles in Informatics, both from research and high-level education point of views.

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Informatics Europe has formed a number of working groups that will report on their progress, recent activities and challenges concerning:

- Setting standards for computer science curricula

- Evaluating the quality of computer science research

- Student enrollment and image of the discipline

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