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Informatics Europe proudly announces the second Minerva Informatics
Equality Award devoted to initiatives which seek to encourage and
support the careers of women in Informatics research and education.
The second of this annual award will be presented in October 2017
and is sponsored by Google.<br>
<br>
The Informatics Europe Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognizes
best practices in Departments or Faculties of European universities
or research 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:<br>
<ul>
<li>Developing the careers of female faculty, including retention
and promotion;</li>
<li>Supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral
researchers into faculty positions;</li>
<li>Encouraging female students to enroll in Computer
Science/Informatics programmes and retaining them.</li>
</ul>
<br>
<b>The 2017 Award is devoted to initiatives supporting the
transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty
positions.</b><b><br>
</b><br>
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. Nominations will need to demonstrate the impact that
has been achieved.<br>
<br>
<b>For 2017 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.</b><br>
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<b>The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000</b><br>
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The Award will be given to a Department or Faculty to be used for
further work on supporting the transition of female PhD or post-docs
to faculty positions. To be eligible, nominated institutions must be
located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the
Council of Europe, or Israel. Institutions associated with members
of the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award panel are not
eligible.<br>
<br>
The Award panel will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves
the right to split the prize between at most two different
proposals. Moreover, noteworthy runners up may also be included as
exemplars of best practice in future Informatics Europe
publications.<br>
<br>
<b><br>
Proposals should be submitted only at:</b><br>
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<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2017">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2017</a><br>
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<b><br>
The proposal should include:</b><br>
<ul>
<li> Contact information for the Head of the nominated
Department or Faculty and the nominator (who can be the same);</li>
<li> A brief summary or abstract (100 words or less) which can
be made public.</li>
<li> Description of the initiative (max 2 pages);</li>
<li> Evidence of its impact (max 2 pages);</li>
<li> An optional reference list (which may include URLs of
supporting material);</li>
<li> 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.</li>
</ul>
<br>
<b> Deadlines:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Full nominations: June 1, 2017</li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2017</li>
</ul>
<br>
The Award will be presented at the <a
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">13th
European Computer Science Summit</a>, in Lisbon, October 23-25,
2017, where a representative of the winning institution(s) will be
invited to give a talk on their achievements.<br>
<br>
<b>Award Panel:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Christine Choppy, Professor of Informatics, University Paris
13 (SPC), France (Chair)</li>
<li>Serge Abiteboul, Senior Researcher, Inria, France (co-chair
Comité Parité-Égalité)</li>
<li>Tibor Bosse, Associate Professor of Informatics, VU University
Amsterdam, Netherlands (Gender Equality Officer)</li>
<li>Gyöngyi Bujdosó, Professor of Informatics, University
Debrecen, Hungary</li>
<li>Monica Divitini, Professor in Cooperation Technologies,
IDI-NTNU, Norway</li>
<li>Anna Ingólfsdóttir, Professor of Informatics, University
Reykjavik, Iceland</li>
<li>Mema Roussopoulos, Associate Professor of Computer Science,
University of Athens, Greece</li>
<li>Letizia Tanca, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy</li>
</ul>
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<b>Further inquiries:</b><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:minerva-award@informatics-europe.org">minerva-award@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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