[ie-announce] Call for Submissions - 2022 Minerva Informatics Equality Award

[Informatics Europe Office]

Dear colleagues,

Coming into its seventh year, Informatics Europe proudly announces its 
2022 Minerva Informatics Equality Award devoted to initiatives seeking 
to encourage and support the careers of women in informatics research 
and education.

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*Minerva Informatics Equality Award 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/social-impact/minerva-informatics-equality-award.html>**
**2022 Edition: "Developing the careers of female faculty, including 
retention and promotion."*

Presented by Informatics Europe & EUGAIN COST Action
Sponsored by Google

<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2022>*Now Open for 
Submissions* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2022>
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The Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises best practices in 
Departments/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 of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers
    into faculty positions;
  * Encouraging female students to enrol in computer science/informatics
    programmes and retaining them.

*The 2022 Award**is devoted to gender equality initiatives and policies 
to develop the careers of female faculty, including retention and 
promotion.*

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 2022, examples of impact could include an improved success rate in 
recruiting, retaining and promoting female staff, increased satisfaction 
scores from objective surveys of staff experience, achievement of 
'beacon' status (i.e. being used as an exemplar within national or 
regional initiatives).

*The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.*

The Award will be given to a Department or Faculty to be used for 
further work on promoting gender equality. To be eligible for the award, 
applying institutions must be located in one of the member or candidate 
member countries of the Council of Europe <http://www.coe.int/>, or 
Israel. *Institutions associated with members of the Award Committee are 
not eligible.* For organizations with more than one Departments or 
Institutes, applications coming only from the Department or the 
Institute with which an Award Committee member is affiliated will not be 
considered.

The Award committee reserves the right to split the prize between 
different applications. Moreover, noteworthy runners up may also be 
included as exemplars of best practice 
<https://www.informatics-europe.org/social-impact/minerva-informatics-equality-award/best-practices-in-supporting-women.html> 
in future Informatics Europe publications.

*Proposals should be submitted only at:*
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2022

They must be in English, in pdf format and at least 11-point font with 
reasonable margins.

*The submission should include:*

  * Contact information of the Head/Director of the applying Department
    or Faculty and the responsible person 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
    materials);
  * Optionally, one or two letters of support. The letters of support
    may come, for example, from female faculty who have benefited from
    the scheme, or from the Dean/Head of the organization of the
    applying Institution confirming impact;
  * 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.

Submissions not conforming to the above rules and applications outside 
of the scope of the current cycle of the Award will be rejected without 
consideration.

*Key Dates:*

  * Submission Deadline: *1 June 2022*
  * Notification of winner(s): *August 2022*

The Award will be presented during the 18th European Computer Science 
Summit <https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html> (ECSS), which 
will be held in Hamburg, Germany, October 24-26, 2022, where a 
representative of the winning institution(s) will be invited to give a 
talk on their achievements.

*Award Committee:*

  * Karima Boudaoud, Ecole Polytechnique de Nice Sophia Antipolis,
    France (Co-Chair)
  * Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK (Co-Chair)
  * David Billard, Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève, Switzerland
  * Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
  * Lucia Happe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, German
  * Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo
    Moro", Italy
  * Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy
  * Simona Motogna, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania
  * Paula Alexandra Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal

*Further inquiries:*
minerva-award at informatics-europe.org

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