Informatics Europe Bulletin: Calls Open for Education and Gender Equality Awards
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Informatics Europe Bulletin - March 2020 |
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Dear Members, We are happy to send you the latest Informatics Europe bulletin, our bi-monthly newsletter for members. In this issue: Call for the 2020 Best Practices in Education AwardThe Best Practices in Education Award recognizes outstanding European educational initiatives that improve the quality of Informatics teaching and the attractiveness of the discipline. The 2020 Award is devoted to lifelong education in Informatics as a mean to reduce the talent gap. The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries a prize of EUR 5,000. Proposals should be submitted electronically, before 1 June 2020. Call for the 2020 Minerva Informatics Equality AwardThe 2020 Minerva Informatics Equality Award is devoted to gender equality initiatives and policies supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions. The Award seeks to celebrate successful initiatives that have had a measurable impact on the careers of women within the institution. Such initiatives can serve as exemplars of best practices within the community, with the potential to be widely adopted by other institutions. Submissions will need to demonstrate the impact that has been achieved. The Award is sponsored by Google and carries a prize of EUR 5,000. Proposals should be submitted electronically, before 1 June 2020. Informatics for All 2020 Workshop Webinar
To watch the webinar of the event, please visit the Informatics for All 2020 Workshop page.
Academic Leadership Course: PostponedWe regret to inform that unfortunately, due to the current COVID-19 crisis, our intensive 3-day residential Academic Leadership Course, which would have taken place in Vienna on 16-19 June, is postponed until further notice. We will confirm the new dates as soon as possible and are sorry if we caused any inconvenience to those who have already registered. Everyone will be contacted individually by our office to arrange for the return of the reservation fee. Ethics4EU Multiplier Event: PostponedWe regret to inform that unfortunately, due to the current COVID-19 crisis, the Ethics4EU Multiplier Event, part of the Ethics4EU Erasmus+ project, which would have taken place in Zurich on 7 May, is postponed until further notice. We will confirm the new dates as soon as possible and are sorry if we caused any inconvenience to those who have already planned to attend the event. Association NewsCOVID-19 Pandemic Crisis - How it Affects Our WorkThe current COVID-19 crisis has affected a number of our planned events and activities, as you have read above. Besides that, this is how Informatics Europe activities have been affected:
We hope all members and colleagues are in good health and that the crisis will not strongly affect your work. Board Meetings
* To be confirmed if face to face or virtual meeting New Informatics Europe MembersWe are very pleased to welcome the following new member:
They joined a growing membership of over 140 institutions from 33 European countries. Check out our current member list. Members News
We are pleased to inform you about the EIT Digital Summer School on “Machine Learning for Financial Data” in Budapest, Hungary between 12-25 July 2020. The summer school will provide an introduction to the benefits and best practices of machine learning and deep learning in the financial sector. Participants will work on business assignments for innovative use of machine learning in cooperation with companies and start-ups in the Budapest region. The two-week event is open to researchers, industry professionals, Master and PhD students and others who want to deep dive into emerging technologies and learn how to apply them in business situations. A limited number of stipends (scholarships) are available.
The 2020 Vienna Workshop on Digital Humanism will take place on 14-15 May and is the follow up of the successful Workshop in April 2019, with the resulting Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism. The 2019 workshop was a first gathering and positioning, creating also an international community, the second one in 2020 will focus on realizing Digital Humanism. Digital Humanism is a broad concept dealing with the entire relationship of humans and machines, of informatics and society. This you can see in the topics discussed. We will have sufficient time for discussion, also on how to proceed. ***
This space is available to include relevant news from our member institutions. If you would like to share your news, please contact Franziska Hauffe. New Jobs @ Informatics Europe Job PlatformThere are 29 new job openings on the Informatics Europe Job Platform! |
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Following the successful Informatics for All Workshop that took place in Brussels in 2019, the Informatics for All Coalition hosted a second Workshop on 17 March 2020. The event was scheduled to take place in Brussels, however, due to COVID-19 crisis, a webinar took place instead. The event included presentations about the progress and status of the activities of the Coalition and the update of the Digital Education Action Plan by the European Commission, followed by a Q&A section with the webinar attendees. Despite the online medium, the discussion has been very effective and the community was able to reinforce the message of how crucial it is for the future of Europe that Informatics becomes part of the curricula of schools across Europe as a foundation discipline from early years.
