[ie-announce] 2014 Best Practices in Education Award - Call for Submissions
Cristina Pereira
cristina.pereira at informatics-europe.org
Wed Feb 19 19:37:41 CET 2014
Informatics Europe proudly announces its 2014 Best Practices in
Education Award
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/services/education-award.html>devoted
to initiatives promoting informatics education in primary and secondary
schools.
The Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education Award recognizes
outstanding European educational initiatives that improve the quality of
informatics teaching and the attractiveness of the discipline, and can
be applied and extended beyond their institutions of origin.
As in 2013, the Award will reward a successful teaching effort in Europe
that:
* *has made a measurable difference in informatics education in schools*
* *is widely applicable and useful for the teaching community*
* *has made a measurable impact in its original institution and beyond it*
The 2014 Award is devoted to curriculum initiatives for promoting
informatics in schools as a mandatory subject for all students. The
Award will honor original contributions who emphasize successful
initiatives for teaching of informatics fundamentals in schools.
Experiences and reports showing how to use software or hardware tools in
order to improve learning in other disciplines than informatics will not
be considered.
Examples of impact include course results, student projects, textbooks,
influence on the curriculum of other schools.
The 2014 Award is devoted to curriculum initiatives promoting
informatics education in primary and secondary schools and funded
through a generous grant from Microsoft.
*The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.00*
The Award can be given to an individual or to a group. To be eligible,
participants must be located in one of the member or candidate member
countries of the Council of Europe (www.coe.int), or Israel. Members of
the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not eligible.
The Award Committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves
the right to split the prize between at most two different proposals
(individuals or teams).
*Proposals should be submitted only at:*
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2014
*The proposal should include:*
* Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants;
* Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an individual
or a group;
* Description of the achievements (max 5 pages);
* Evidence of availability of the curricula materials to the teaching
community (max 2 pages);
* Evidence of impact (max 5 pages);
* A reference list (which may include URLs of supporting material);
* One or two letters of support. The letters of support may come for
example from school management or colleagues in the same or another
institution.
*Deadlines:*
* Abstract: May 1, 2014
* Full proposal: June 1, 2014
* Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2014
The Award will be presented at the 10th European Computer Science Summit
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2014.html>, in Wroclaw,
13-15 October 2014, where the winner or winners (one representative in
the case of an institution) will be invited to give a talk on their
achievements.
*Award Committee:*
* Gérard Berry, Collège de France (Chair)
* Michael Caspersen, University of Aarhus
* Barbara Demo, Politecnico di Torino
* Michael Fourman, University of Edinburgh
* Avi Mendelson, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
* Maciej Sys?o, University of Wroc?aw & UMK, Torun'
* Jan Vahrenhold, University of Münster
*Further inquires:*
curriculum-award at informatics-europe.org
<mailto:curriculum-award at informatics-europe.org>
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Dr. Cristina Pereira
Informatics Europe
ETHZ - RZ - Clausiusstrasse 59
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 633 9374
Cell: +41 77 455 2370
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