2017 Minerva Informatics Equality Award

The Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) of the Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) is the winner of the second Minerva Informatics Equality Award for its measurable efforts in monitoring gender issues and promoting the advancement of female careers in Informatics. The Award was presented during the 13th European Computer Science Summit held in Lisbon (24 October 2017). The second edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognizes best practices in departments or faculties of European universities and research labs that support the transition for PhD and postdoctoral female researchers into faculty positions.

On the photo: Prof. Lejla Batina, Head of the Digital Security group and Chair of the Gender Diversity Committee and Dr. Bernadette Smelik, Managing Director of the Institute, received the prize from Beate List (Google). Read the winning Award submission.

About the 2017 Minerva Informatics Equality Award

The Award is sponsored by Google and carries a prize of 5,000 EUR.

The Award is given to a Department or Faculty to be used for further work on promoting gender equality. To be eligible, nominated institutions must be located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe, or Israel. Institutions associated with members of the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not eligible.

The Award Committee reviews and evaluates each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals.

Award Committee:

• Christine Choppy, Professor of Informatics, University Paris 13 (SPC), France (Chair)
• Serge Abiteboul, Professor of Informatics, INRIA, France
• Tibor Bosse, Associate professor of Informatics, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Gyöngyi Bujdosó, Professor of Informatics, University Debrecen, Hungary
• Monica Divitini, Professor in Cooperation Technologies, IDI-NTNU, Norway
• Anna Ingólfsdóttir, Professor of Informatics, University Reykjavik, Iceland
• Mema Roussopoulos, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Athens, Greece
• Letizia Tanca, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

Click here for the 2017 Call for submissions.