2021 Best Practices in Education Award

The program is CyberChallenge.IT, which was submitted by CINI Cybersecurity National Laboratory from Italy is the winner of the Informatics Europe 2021 Best Practices in Education Award. The 2021 Award was devoted to outstanding European Informatics educational initiatives in the domain of Cybersecurity, understood in a broad sense, including related questions such as user empowerment and control of personal data, and digital legal education (right to be forgotten, freedom of speech, anonymity versus trust and security, crowdsourcing versus legacy manufacturing, etc.). The 2021 Award was presented during the 17th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2021), a hybrid event in Madrid and online. Learn more about the winners here and 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:

• Jean-Marc Jézéquel, IRISA / University of Rennes, France (Chair)
• Ismael García-Varea, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Gabriela Marcu, University of Michigan, US
• Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Alexander Pretschner, TU Munich, Germany
• Lili Nemec Zlatolas, University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Click here for the 2021 Call for submissions.