2024 Minerva Informatics Equality Award

The International Women´s Degree Programme in Computer Science at Hochschule Bremen – City University of Applied Sciences (Germany) wins the 2024 Minerva Informatics Equality Award celebrating successful initiatives that have had a measurable impact on the careers of women in all stages. The Minerva Award, organised by Informatics Europe in collaboration with COST Action EUGAIN – European Network For Gender balance in Informatics and sponsored by Google, was presented during the 20th European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2024), an in-person event in Sliema, Malta.  Given this year’s strong nominations, the Award Committee also recognised two runners-up:

• the Women in Information and Computing Sciences (WICS) network and the ICS diversity committee at Utrecht University, the Netherlands;
• the Steering Committee of “Alice & Eve: a celebration of women in computing” initiative, a joint effort among several Dutch universities since 2020.

Read the winning Award submission and learn what the winner say about it in the post-ceremony press release.

We close this year's process by warmly thanking the 2024 Award Committee with the participation of EUGAIN members:

• Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy (Chair)
• Lenuta Alboaie, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania 
• Sonay Caner Yildirim, Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, Turkey
• Miguel Goulão, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
• Gerti Kappel, TU Wien, Austria
• Kévin Perrot, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, France
• Gerit Wagner, University of Bamberg, Germany