Workshop Key Data on Informatics Education in Europe
Informatics Europe is engaged in a continuous effort to collect key data on informatics education in Europe and make it available in a useful and informative way to its members and the community.
This year we published the second edition of the report Informatics Education in Europe: Institutions, Degrees, Students, Positions, Salaries reporting data from the years 2008-2013
The first edition of the report, which was an important milestone, was published in 2013 and included a wealth of fundamental data, starting from a list of institutions awarding degrees in the field and continuing with student enrollments, degrees awarded, gender distribution, academic titles, as well as precise and much-needed data about academic salaries across European countries. The second edition additionally presented a detailed description of the systems of higher education in all the countries included in the study and data from University of Applied Sciences for countries where such institutions exist, distinct from traditional Universities.
Our goal is to continuously improve this report series and expand the country coverage. This is only possible with the active participation of new collaborators, people who can reach, and help us to interpret, the relevant data in their countries.
To gather the key people in the different European countries we are organizing the "2nd Workshop Key Data on Informatics Education in Europe"
The workshop will be held in Zurich on February 26 from 9:00 to 16:30 (ETH Zurich, RZ Building, Room F 21, Clausiusstrasse 59).
The attendees should commit to help identifying relevant sources and contacts for the data in their respective countries. At the workshop, help defining the precise nature and scope of the next reports.
We are particularly interested in representatives of countries not yet represented, or represented only partially, in the first editions of the report.
Tentative Agenda:
- Critical examination of the previous editions of the report; lessons for future editions.
- What should be the focus and scope of future reports?
- What variables and countries should be included?
- Finding more access points in European countries not yet represented.
- Finding other sources of information.
- Methodology (how is data collected and compared).
- What kinds of conclusions, if any, should the report aim at?
- Frequency of publication.
- Policy for accessibility of the report.
- Possible actions and initiatives (other than the publication of the report itself) arising from this work.
There is no registration fee.
To register for the workshop, or ask for more information, please email Cristina Pereira at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (deadline, January 25th).
We are actively looking to include as many countries as possible. If you are not personally able to attend the workshop, but know colleagues who are well-informed about informatics education and could make a valuable contribution, please pass on this invitation to them.
If you agree that it is essential to have solid, credible, representative data on the state of our discipline across all of Europe, and would like to make sure that your country is properly represented, please attend the workshop!