2017 Best Practices in Education Award

Class’Code, an open participative training solution for members of the educational and informatics communities in France is the winner of Informatics Europe 2017 Best Practices in Education Award. It helps introducing young people to the concept of algorithms, computational thinking and thus allow them to have control over the digital world from an early age. On the picture, Colin de la Higuera, chairman of Class’Code Steering Committee, and Unesco Chair for open educational resources at Nantes University, and Benjamin Ninassi, Chief engineer at INRIA, received the award from Evelyn Viegas (Microsoft) at the special ceremony held on 24 October 2017, as part of the European Computer Science Summit. Read the winning Award submission.

About the Informatics Europe 2017 Best Practices in Education Award 

The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries a prize of 5,000.

The Award can be given to an individual or to a group. To be eligible, participants must be located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe (www.coe.int), or Israel. Members of the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not eligible. The 2017 edition of the award was devoted to curriculum and professional development initiatives for making Informatics education available to all.

Award Committee:

• Jan Vahrenhold, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Chair)
• Mordechai Ben-Ari, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Michael E. Caspersen, Aarhus University
• Kathi Fisler, Brown University
• Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Lisa Kaczmarczyk PhD Consulting LLC
• Aiko Pras, University of Twente

 Click here for the 2017 Call for submissions.