2021 Minerva Informatics Equality Award
UK’s EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems wins the sixth edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award for their support for both the encouragement and retention of female students in advanced graduate study of Robotics, Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics. The Award was presented during the 17th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2021), a hybrid event in Madrid and online. The Award celebrates successful initiatives that have had a measurable impact on the recruitment and support of female students within the institution. Learn more about the winner here and read the winning Award submission.
| On the photo from left to right: Letizia Jaccheri (EUGAIN COST Action Chair, NTNU), Claire Ordoyno (Winner Representative, EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems), Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President). |
About the 2021 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, 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 Award Committee are not eligible.
The Award Committee, with participation of EUGAIN members, reviews and evaluates each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals.
Award Committee:
- Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK (Chair)
- Hagit Attiya, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
- Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Sarah Jane Delany, TU Dublin, Ireland
- Steve Kremer, Inria, France
- Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
- Brenda Murphy, University of Malta, Malta
- Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg, Germany.
Click here for the 2021 Call for submissions.