[ie-announce] 2020 Minerva Informatics Equality Award - Submissions Deadline Extended to 15 June
Svetlana Tikhonenko
svetlana.tikhonenko at informatics-europe.org
Tue Jun 2 15:49:11 CEST 2020
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*Minerva Informatics Equality Award*
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/minerva-informatics-equality-award.html>
*2020 Edition**
**'Supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers
into faculty positions'*
*Presented by Informatics Europe**
**Sponsored by Google*
*Call for Submissions Still Open - Deadline Extended to 15 June 2020*
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/minerva-informatics-equality-award/call-for-submissions-2020.html>
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Informatics Europe *is extending the submissions deadline to 15 June*
for the fifth Minerva Informatics Equality Award devoted to initiatives
seeking to encourage and support the careers of women in Informatics
research and education. The fifth of this annual award *carries a prize
of EUR 5,000 *and is sponsored by Google.
The Informatics Europe Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises
best practices in Departments or Faculties of European Universities or
Research Institutes and Labs that have been demonstrated to have a
positive impact for women. On a three-year cycle the award will focus
each year on a different stage of the career pipeline:
* Developing the careers of female faculty, including retention and
promotion;
* Supporting the transition for PhD and postdoctoral researchers into
faculty positions;
* Encouraging female students to enrol in Computer Science/Informatics
programs and retaining them.
The *2020 Award* is devoted to *gender equality initiatives and policies
supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers
into faculty positions.*
The Award seeks to celebrate successful initiatives that have had a
measurable impact on the careers of women within the institution. Such
initiatives can serve as exemplars of best practices within the
community, with the potential to be widely adopted by other
institutions. Submissions will need to demonstrate the impact that has
been achieved.
*For 2020 examples of impact could include an improved career
development and better agreements on career planning for female PhD
students and postdocs as recorded in objective surveys of staff
experience, and increasing numbers of female faculty.*
The Award will be 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 <https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/home>, or
Israel. Institutions associated with members of the WIRE Working Group
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/working-groups/women-in-icst-research-and-education.html>
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 different applications. Moreover, noteworthy runners up
may also be included as exemplars of best practice in future Informatics
Europe publications.
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**Proposals should be submitted only at:*
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2020
*The proposal should include:*
* Contact information of the Head/Director of the applying Department
or Faculty and the responsible for the application (who can be the
same);
* A brief summary or abstract (100 words or less) which can be made
public;
* Description of the initiative (max 2 pages);
* Evidence of its impact (max 2 pages);
* An optional reference list (which may include URLs of supporting
material);
* Optionally, one or two letters of support. The letters of support
may come, for example, from female staff members who have benefited
from the scheme;
* An indication of whether the submission can be considered as a
runner up (if it does not win the award) and be included as an
exemplar of best practice in future Informatics Europe publications.
*Deadlines:*
* Full submissions: 15 June 2020
* Notification of winner(s): 1 August 2020
The Award will be presented at the 16th European Computer Science Summit
(ECSS) <http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html>, which will be
held online on 26-28 October 2020, where a representative of the winning
institution(s) will be invited to give a talk on their achievements
*Award Committee:*
* Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology and
Mälardalen University, Sweden (Chair)
* Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria
* Sylvia Ilieva, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria
* Dympna O'Sullivan, TU Dublin, Ireland
* Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway
* Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.
*Further inquiries:*
minerva-award at informatics-europe.org
<mailto:minerva-award at informatics-europe.org>
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