2018 Minerva Informatics Equality Award

The Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Sciences of the University of Bamberg (Germany) is the winner of the third edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award for their contribution to the enrolment and retention of female students in Computer Science programs. The Award was presented during the 14th European Computer Science Summit held in Gothenburg (Sweden) on October 9, 2018. Read the winning Award submission.

The third edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognizes best practices in departments or faculties of European universities and research labs that encourage female students to enrol in Informatics programmes and retain them. 

On the photo from left to right: Panagiota Fatourou (Award Chair, FORTH and University of Crete), Beate List (Google), Ute Schmid and Daniela Nicklas (Winner Representatives, University of Bamberg), Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President). 

About the 2018 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

• Panagiota Fatourou, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas and University of Crete, Greece (Chair)
• Liliana Cucu, INRIA, France
• Susan Eisenbach,  Imperial College London, UK
• Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
• Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Kurt Mehlhorn, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
• Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel 

Click here for the 2018 Call for submissions.