2019 Minerva Informatics Equality Award

TU Dublin Computer Science, Ireland, is the winner of the fourth edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award for their gender equality initiatives and policies to develop the careers of female faculty. The Award was presented during the 15th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2019) in Rome, Italy, October 2019. The Award celebrates successful initiatives that have had a measurable impact on the careers of women within the institution. Read the winning Award submission.

On the photo from left to right: Susan Susan McKeever, Deirdre Lillis (Winner Representatives, TU Dublin), Beate List (Google), Dana Petcu (Award Chair, West University of Timișoara), Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President). 

About the 2019 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 WIRE Working Group and of the Award Committee are not eligible.

Award Committee

•  Dana Petcu, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, Romania (Chair)
• Josephina Antoniou, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus
• Maria Carla Calzarossa, Università di Pavia, Italy
• Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• M.J. Escalona, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
• Maria Ganzha, Politechnika Warszawska, Poland
• Ilona Heldal, Bergen University College, Norway
• Aneta Karaivanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
• Olaf Owe, Unversity of Oslo, Norway
• Laura Ricci, Università di Pisa, Italy

Click here for the 2019 Call for submissions.