Call Open for 2021 Minerva Informatics Equality Award
The 2021 Minerva Award, sponsored by Google, is devoted to initiatives encouraging female students to enrol in Computer Science/Informatics programmes and retaining them.
This is the sixth edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award. The Award seeks to celebrate successful initiatives that have had a measurable impact on the recruitment and support of female students 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. Nominations will need to demonstrate the impact that has been achieved.
For 2021 examples of impact could include fostering gender balance in all aspects of students’ education, better admission, recruitment and graduation rates for female students, better gender ratio of students receiving stipends, scholarships and other financial support, improved curriculum, designed based on gender analysis, as recorded in objective surveys of staff and student experience, etc. The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.
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The Informatics Europe Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises best practices in Departments or Faculties of European universities or research labs that have been demonstrated to have a positive impact for women. On a three-year cycle the award will focus each year on a different stage of the career pipeline:
- Developing the careers of female faculty, including retention and promotion;
- Supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions;
- Encouraging female students to enrol in Computer Science/Informatics programmes and retaining them.