[ie-announce] ECSS 2020 - First Call for Participation

[Franziska Hauffe]

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*_ECSS 2020 - 16^th European Computer Science Summit 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html>_***

*“Diversity in Informatics Research and Education”*

26 – 28 October 2020, Online Event

With an opening speech by Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for 
Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.

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The European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) is the meeting place for 
anyone interested in issues of research, education and policy in 
Informatics.

For the first time in its sixteen years of history, ECSS is going to be 
a fully online event, the result of the Covid-19 health crisis that 
affected the whole continent and changed our way of living, working, 
networking and socializing.

While we understand the power of personal contact for effective 
networking, and ECSS is above all a networking event, we also see a 
unique opportunity in creating a space of discussion and learning from 
peers that can be much more pervasive. We hope that bringing ECSS to 
your offices and home-offices we will be able to reach more members in 
each member department, creating more interest to our activities and 
inspiring people to take action and participate in Informatics Europe 
activities and being more active at the European level.

The 16th edition - ECSS 2020 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html>- will be held via 
Zoom, October 26-28, 2020. The conference this year will consist of the 
main summit of *three days* composed of a number of complementary online 
events and sessions.

We are proud to announce that the conference will be opened on Monday, 
October 26, with a speech by *Mariya Gabriel*, *European Commissioner 
for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth*. She will be 
opening the first session, on the topic Informatics Education,**of the 
*Workshop for Leaders of Informatics Research and Education. *The 
session will include also presentation and discussion on the 
*Informatics for All initiative*and the *European Commission Digital 
Education Action Plan*.

The following sessions of the Leaders Workshop will focus on the central 
theme: *“Post-Pandemic Ways for Learning and Researching in 
Informatics”*. It will feature sessions in which speakers will share 
their expertise with the audience in a webinar-style including virtual 
breakout rooms for a deeper Q&A.

On the morning of October 27, two high-profile keynote speakers, *Ewan 
Birney* Director from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - 
European Bioinformatics Institute and *Vivian Lagesen* from the 
Norwegian University of Science and Technology will be addressing two 
different aspects of “Diversity in Informatics Research and Education”, 
interdisciplinarity and gender balance. The session will be highly 
interactive, allowing attendees to pose questions and discuss with the 
speakers.

The afternoon session on October 27 will include presentations by the 
winners of the two *Informatics Europe Annual Awards*, *Best Practices 
in Education* and *Minerva Informatics Equality*. Rounding up Tuesday’s 
program a*Dialogue with Members Session*including the *Informatics 
Europe Annual General Assembly* will take place, where key topics of 
relevance to the community and the development of the organisation will 
be actively discussed.

The ECSS 2020 closes on Wednesday, October 28, with two special 
workshops. In the morning, the *National Associations Workshop* on 
"Interdisciplinarity and Informatics" will address how the increasing 
emphasis on interdisciplinarity in science affects the Informatics 
community in different European countries. In the afternoon, the *2020 
**WIRE Workshop *will take place addressing key topics for the 
Informatics European community working to improve gender diversity in 
Informatics research and education.

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****The 2020 Summit program had the intellectual contribution of: *

  * Enrico Nardelli, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Informatics Europe
  * Cristina Pereira, Informatics Europe
  * Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University
  * Harald Gall, University of Zurich
  * Letizia Jaccheri, NTNU
  * Mehdi Jazayeri, Università della Svizzera italiana
  * Kim Mens, Université catholique de Louvain
  * Pekka Orponen, Aalto University
  * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara
  * Jaak Vilo, University of Tartu

     Organizational Support:

  * Wieneke Emans, Franziska Hauffe, Svetlana Tikhonenko, Informatics
    Europe Office


For further information, you can visit the _ECSS website 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html>_or access directly 
the information concerning each specific session:

  * Leaders Workshop
    <https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/leaders-workshop.html>
  * Diversity in Informatics Research and Education
    <https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/diversity-informatics-research-education.html>
  * Informatics Europe Awards Session
    <https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/awards.html>
  * Informatics Europe Session
    <https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/ie-session.html>
  * <https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/ie-session.html>___National
    Associations Workshop_
    <https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/national-associations-workshop.html>
  * WIRE Workshop
    <https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/wire-workshop.html>

A preliminary version of the conference schedule 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/program/schedule.html>is 
available on the ECSS 2020 website.
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*Registration*

Registrations will open by the end of July. The ECSS 2020 will be held 
as a 3-day event with different sessions and webinars using the Zoom 
platform. We will grasp the opportunity of the online format and offer 
the possibility of a departmental registration, i.e. one paid 
registration per department allowing multiple members of that department 
to attend the event simultaneously.

*About ECSS*

ECSS conferences are devoted to important and timely strategic issues 
and trends regarding all aspects of Informatics, including research, 
education, entrepreneurship, funding, career development, management and 
policies. The key audience includes:

  * Heads (deans, chairs) of academic Informatics (Computer Science,
    Computing, IT, ICT) departments (schools, faculties, institutes);
  * Research directors and managers of research centres, institutes and
    laboratories, both in public institutions and in the industry;
  * Faculty members and researchers from both academia and industry;
  * Members of funding and governmental agencies at European, national,
    regional and local level;
  * Experts, advisors and thinkers of numerous key issues like ethics,
    the relation between Informatics and other sciences, the
    discipline’s future and its influence on the academic world and
    society.

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