2020 Best Practices in Education Award

The project "Master of IT" submitted by a Coordination Committee on behalf of Aalborg University, Aarhus University and University of Southern Denmark is the winner of the Informatics Europe 2020 Best Practices in Education Award. The 2020 Award was devoted to outstanding European Informatics educational initiatives that promote lifelong education in Informatics as a mean to reduce the talent gap and was presented during the 16th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2020) held online in October 2020. Read the winning Award submission. 

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 Education Working Group and of the Award Committee are not eligible. The Award Committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals (individuals or teams).

Award Committee:

• Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Chair)
• Ismael García-Varea, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Jean-Marc Jézéquel, IRISA / University of Rennes, France
• Michael Kölling, King's College London, UK
• Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
• Gabriela Marcu, University of Michigan, US

Click here for the 2020 Call for submissions.