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<font face="Calibri">Informatics Europe proudly announces its <a
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/services/education-award.html">2014
Best Practices in Education Award </a>devoted to initiatives
promoting informatics education in primary and secondary schools.<br>
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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.<br>
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As in 2013, the Award will reward a successful teaching effort in
Europe that:<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri"><strong>has made a measurable difference
in informatics education in schools</strong></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"><strong>is widely applicable and useful
for the teaching community</strong></font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"><strong>has made a measurable impact in
its original institution and beyond it</strong></font></li>
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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.<br>
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Examples of impact include course results, student projects,
textbooks, influence on the curriculum of other schools.<br>
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The 2014 Award is devoted to curriculum initiatives promoting
informatics education in primary and secondary schools and funded
through a generous grant from Microsoft.<br>
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<strong>The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.00</strong><br>
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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 (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.coe.int">www.coe.int</a>),
or Israel. Members of the Informatics Europe Board and of the
Award Committee are not eligible.<br>
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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).<br>
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<strong>Proposals should be submitted only at:</strong><br>
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<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2014</a><br>
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<strong>The proposal should include:</strong><br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">Names and addresses of the applicant or
applicants;</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Indication of whether the submission is
on behalf of an individual or a group;</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Description of the achievements (max 5
pages);</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Evidence of availability of the curricula
materials to the teaching community (max 2 pages);</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Evidence of impact (max 5 pages);</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">A reference list (which may include URLs
of supporting material);</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">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.</font></li>
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<strong>Deadlines:</strong><br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">Abstract: May 1, 2014</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Full proposal: June 1, 2014</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2014</font></li>
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The Award will be presented at the <a
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2014.html"
target="_blank">10th European Computer Science Summit</a>, 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.<br>
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<strong>Award Committee:</strong><br>
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<li><font face="Calibri">Gérard Berry, Collège de France (Chair)</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Michael Caspersen, University of Aarhus</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Barbara Demo, Politecnico di Torino</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Michael Fourman, University of Edinburgh</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Avi Mendelson, Technion - Israel
Institute of Technology</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Maciej Sysło, University of Wrocław &
UMK, Toruń</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri">Jan Vahrenhold, University of Münster</font></li>
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<strong>Further inquires:</strong><br>
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<a href="mailto:curriculum-award@informatics-europe.org">curriculum-award@informatics-europe.org</a></font>
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Dr. Cristina Pereira <br>
Informatics Europe <br>
ETHZ - RZ - Clausiusstrasse 59 <br>
8092 Zurich, Switzerland <br>
Phone: +41 44 633 9374 <br>
Cell: +41 77 455 2370 <br>
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