2018 Best Practices in Education Award
The project 'Tinkering in Informatics as a Teaching Method' submitted by Dr. Angelika Mader, Dr. Ansgar Fehnker and Dr. Alma Schaafstal from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Twente, Netherlands is the winner of the Informatics Europe 2018 Best Practices in Education Award. The 2018 Award was devoted to outstanding European educational innovation that transforms Informatics teaching in the classroom or beyond, at school or university level, or outside of institutions and was presented during the 14th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2018) in Gothenburg, Sweden, October 2018. Read the winning Award submission.
(From left to right: Michael Kölling, Angelika Mader, Enrico Nardelli)
About the Informatics Europe 2018 Best Practices in Education Award
The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries a prize of EUR 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 Award Committee reviews and evaluates each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals (individuals or teams).
Award Committee:
- Michael Kölling, King's College London, UK (Chair)
- Michal Armoni, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Tim Bell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Peter Hubwieser, Technische Universität München, Germany
- Peter McOwen, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Arnold Pears, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
- Jan Vahrenhold, Universität Münster, Germany
Click here for the 2018 Call for submissions.