2021 Best Practices in Education Award

Informatics Europe proudly announces its 2021 Best Practices in Education Award devoted to 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.

The Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education Award recognises outstanding European educational initiatives that improve the quality of Informatics teaching and the attractiveness of the discipline, and can be applied and extended beyond their institutions of origin.

The Award will reward a successful teaching effort in Europe that:

• has made a measurable difference in Informatics education;
• is widely applicable and useful for the teaching community;
• has made a measurable impact in its original institution(s) and beyond.

Examples of impact include course results, traditional and online courses, learners’ projects, textbooks, professional development, and influence on the curriculum of other institutions/countries.

The 2021 Education Award Theme is Cybersecurity. The winner will be an outstanding European Informatics educational initiative 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.). This concerns not only students, but also teachers, industry and service providers, citizens of all ages. Experiences in this area, as well as new educational approaches with some evidence of their effectiveness, are welcomed.

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). Moreover, noteworthy runners up may also be included as exemplars of best practice in future Informatics Europe publications.

The proposal should include:

• Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants;
• Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an individual or a group;
• Description of the achievements (max 5 pages);
• Evidence of availability of the outcomes of the initiative to the teaching community (max 2 pages);
• Evidence of impact (max 5 pages);
• A reference list (which may include URLs of supporting material);
• One or two letters of support. The letters of support may come for example from school or university management, associations, or colleagues in the same or another institution.

Deadlines:

• Proposal: 1 June 2021
  
• Notification of winner(s): 1 August 2021

The Award will be presented at the 17th European Computer Science Summit, which will be held 25-27 October 2021 in Madrid (if the COVID-19 situation allows), where a representative of the winning institution(s) will be invited to give a talk on their achievements.

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

Further inquiries:

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