2019 Best Practices in Education Award
There are two winners of the Informatics Europe 2019 Best Practices in Education Award dedicated this year to outstanding European Informatics educational initiatives that promote the inclusion and development of different student groups such as the elderly, immigrants or people with functional diversity. One of the two ex-aequo honoured projects is Welcome.TU.code, which was submitted by Doctor Nysret Musliu and Professor Reinhard Pichler on behalf of the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, Austria (read the winning Award submission). The other ex-aequo honoured project is the Erasmus+ InventEUrs project - Inventors4Change (I4C), as a joint venture of Eduard Muntaner-Perich, Mireia Frigola-Fortià and Jordi Freixenet from University of Girona as well as Safia Barikzai from London South Bank University and Valentina Poggioni and Alfredo Milani from University of Perugia (read the winning Award submission). The Award was presented during the 15th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2019) in Rome, Italy, October 2019.
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About the Informatics Europe 2019 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:
- Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway (Chair)
- Michal Armoni, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway
- Sharon Lynn Chu, University of Florida, US
- Michael Kölling, King's College London, UK
- Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
- Gabriela Marcu, University of Michigan, US
- Jan Vahrenhold, University of Münster, Germany
Click here for the 2019 Call for submissions.