[ie-announce] Informatics Europe Higher Education Data Portal

[Franziska Hauffe]

Dear Colleagues,

Informatics Europe wishes you all a Happy New Year and we hope you 
already had a great start in 2020!

We are very happy to introduce you to our new *Informatics Higher 
Education Data Portal 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/data/higher-education/>* - a project 
of Informatics Europe created with the goal of providing our members, 
the Informatics academic community, policymakers, industry and other 
stakeholders a complete and reliable picture of the state of Informatics 
(Computer Science, Computing, IT, ICT) higher education in Europe.

The portal offers user-friendly access to a wealth of fundamental data 
such as statistics of*students enrolled *and *degrees awarded at 
Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD level*, including *gender distribution* in 
absolute numbers and percentages, both at *Research Universities and 
Universities of Applied Sciences*. A range of qualitative data 
complements the statistics presented, including a list of subjects 
identifying Informatics programs and a list of universities and academic 
units (with direct links to their websites) offering Informatics higher 
education in each country.

The portal is one of the most useful and important services Informatics 
Europe can offer to its members. It provides plenty of opportunities for 
data visualization and in-depth analyses of key trends, issues, and 
aspects that need or could be improved with a better understanding of 
the higher education system in the field.

*Members of Informatics Europe also have the additional benefit of 
having privileged access and download rights for the whole dataset 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/data/higher-education/download.html>.*

The central role played by data curation makes the portal unique, 
reliable and relevant. Data is collected from national sources across 
Europe and a considerable amount of time and effort is spent in 
carefully analysing and screening the raw data. Consulting with 
academics, active and knowledgeable in the field in their countries is 
an integral part of our data curation process. This quality control 
allows us to publish statistics that indeed represent what we, as a 
community, understand and recognize as Informatics higher education 
studies and programs in Europe. The different national languages and 
semantics of the terms used to define the discipline in different 
countries was also carefully considered. The portal was developed by 
Informatics Europe in collaboration with the Software Institute 
<https://www.si.usi.ch/>, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).

In previous years, the data presented in the portal has been shared with 
the members and the community through the annual publication of the 
report series “Informatics Education in Europe - Institutions, degrees, 
students, positions, salaries – Key Data” available here 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/working-groups/data-collection-reporting.html>. 
*The latest issue of the Key Data Report (2019) has been recently 
published and can be downloaded here 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/component/phocadownload/category/10-reports.html?download=128:informatics-education-europe-data-2013-2018>*. 
It complements the statistics presented in the portal with the detailed 
description of the different national higher education systems and 
much-needed data about academic titles and salaries across European 
countries.

We thank everyone who contributed to find and interpret data at national 
level allowing its inclusion in the dataset and providing an opportunity 
to make the status of Informatics education in their countries better 
known at European level.

If your country is not yet on the portal or the report and you can help 
finding and interpreting statistics for your country, please contact: 
svetlana.tikhonenko at informatics-europe.org 
<mailto:svetlana.tikhonenko at informatics-europe.org>.

We kindly ask you to *disseminate the news about the portal in your 
institution and research community* (we have attached a press release 
and an infographic to help you with that).

Thank you and best wishes,

Franziska Hauffe

-- 
Franziska Hauffe
Communications Specialist
Informatics Europe
Binzmühlestrasse 14/54
8050 Zurich
Switzerland

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