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Dear Members,
Welcome to the March edition of Bulletin with updates of our activities with European Commission and more!
In this issue:
IE’s Support at the EC Expert Group on AI & Data in Education and Training
Informatics Europe is a member of the European Commission Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data in Education and Training. In February, Prof. Viola Schiaffonati from our member institute Politecnico di Milano, our representative at the Expert Group, initiated two online meetings with our IE working group to exchange and collect further feedbacks as a support to the Expert Group in setting guidelines and writing a report on AI and Data in Education and Training.
In October, IE conducted a questionnaire on AI and Data in Education and Training for the Expert Group. The questionnaire feedback, received from a total of 31 countries, were presented and discussed during the meetings, bringing about more interesting feedbacks which will be delivered to the Expert Group. The EU Commission also runs a survey to inform the development of the Ethical guidelines on AI and data usage in teaching and learning for educators. The survey is open for completion until 3 March here.
European-Funded Project Updates: Ethics4EU & EUGAIN
Following the transnational meeting in November last year, the IE task force supporting the Ethics4EU project held a new meeting with the creators of the educational bricks for the teaching of ethics in computer science in February. The input of our experts provides a valuable external perspective to the current fine-tuning of the educational bricks. From March 28th to April 1st a learning activity for professors interested in teaching Computer Science ethics will take place in Dublin; three members of IE’s task force plan to attend in representation of the IE community.
The third Management Committee (MC) of our COST Action “European Network for Gender Balance in Informatics (EUGAIN)” is scheduled on March 8. The Action achievements of our first-year activities as well as the plan for the coming 3 years will be reviewed. IE will be present as Grant Holder Manager and MC member. On the other hand, Prof. Maria Letizia Jaccheri, Chair of EUGAIN, is among five other COST Action researchers interviewed about their career experiences in honour of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th. Read the interviews here.
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Informatics Europe partnership contributes to the success of European funded projects. Looking for a pan-European networking partner to strengthen and support your research or education projects? Reach out to us: administration@informatics-europe.org.
Present Your Achievements at Informatics Europe Webinars
Looking for the opportunity to present your research activities in informatics to a bigger audience out of your institute? Send us a proposal for an Informatics Europe webinar!
IE webinars are designed as a platform for scholars of our member institutions to present and share their latest research achievements in informatics to the informatics communities across Europe. The webinars are open to all. They are recorded and further distributed through our YouTube channel, offering our member institutions great opportunities to reach out a wider audience of informatics communities worldwide. Re-watch our previous webinars here and we look forward to welcoming you as an audience or a speaker in our next webinars!
Best Practices in Education Award & Minerva Informatics Equality Award 2022
Each year IE presents two informatics awards to recognise outstanding European educational initiative and gender equality initiative in informatics research and education, respectively. The call for application of this year’s awards will open soon. Full details will be announced in separate emails to our members as well as mailing list subscribers – please stay tuned!
Association News
Board Meetings
- 25 March (Fri), 16:00-17:00, online
- 22 April (Fri), 16:00-17:00, online
- 20 May (Fri), 09:30-16:30, Zurich
Don’t forget: As a member representative, you can submit agenda topics and participate as an observer in board meetings. Let us know in case you are interested in this offer!
Executive Committee Meetings
- 25 March (Fri), 09:30-16:00, Zurich
- 19 May (Thu), 09:30-16:30, Zurich
New Informatics Europe Members
We are very pleased to welcome the following new members:
Academic Members
Industry Member
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Bending Spoons, an Italian-based tech company that develops and markets mobile applications
They joined a growing IE membership of 160 institutions from 34 European countries. Check out our current member list. Member News
SIRA, Switzerland – Swiss IT Congress on IT Education in Fribourg, Switzerland
The Swiss Informatics Society SI and the association of Informatics professors at Swiss universities SIRA jointly organize a one-day congress on the topic of IT Education in Switzerland. The congress will take place on Thursday March 10, 2022 as a physical event at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Everybody interested in IT/Informatics education is kindly invited to attend. After a long time of virtual meetings, this will be an occasion to meet and network in person. Registered participants who still cannot or do not want to travel will receive a link for remote participation via Zoom.
More information and registration at: https://swissinformatics.org/SITC
The German Informatics Society, Germany – TrainDL Newsletter: News on Digital Competencies in Teacher Training
The German Informatics Society coordinates the European policy experimentation project TrainDL, which investigates the structural implementation of artificial intelligence and data literacy in teacher training across subjects and school types.
The new TrainDL newsletter provides quarterly insights into the project and current findings starting in February 2022. Subscription is now possible at https://train-dl.eu/en/news/newsletter-eng, with the first edition published already!
Politecnico di Milano, Italy – Agreement with King Abdulaziz University for Cooperation in the Field of Computing Technologies
The Faculty of Computing and Information Technology of the King Abdulaziz University (KAU) signed an agreement with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria for cooperation in the field of computing technologies with reference to research proposals, graduate thesis and dissertation work, as well as the assessment of research workshops and the mobility of involved researchers. This is part of a broader Memorandum of Understanding for research and education cooperation between KAU and Politecnico di Milano signed in 2020.
Under the agreement, the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of the Politecnico di Milano will act as reviewer for the doctoral and master's degree thesis proposals of students of the KAU University and workshops will be organized, in Saudi Arabia and in Italy, to exchange ideas and try to identify further forms of cooperation. Read the full story of this agreement here.
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