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Informatics Europe proudly announces its 2017 Best Practices in
Education Award devoted to initiatives making Informatics
education available to all.<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. The Award rewards a successful
teaching/dissemination effort in Europe that:<br>
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• has made a measurable difference in Informatics education<br>
• is widely applicable and useful for the teaching community<br>
• has made a measurable impact in its original institution(s)
and beyond<br>
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Examples of impact include course results, traditional and online
courses, learners’ projects, textbooks, professional development,
and influence on the curriculum of other institutions/countries. <br>
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<b>The 2017 Award is devoted to curriculum and professional
development initiatives for making Informatics education
available to all.</b> The Award will honour original
contributions that emphasize successful initiatives for teaching
of Informatics fundamentals in one of the following areas:<br>
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• Reaching out to non-traditional audiences, e.g., in
continuing professional development or to senior citizens.<br>
• Educating the general public, e.g., with respect to data
security and privacy.<br>
• Including Informatics education in other curricula, e.g., in
general teacher training.<br>
<br>
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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<b>The Award carries a prize of EUR 5000.</b><br>
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<b>Submissions:</b><br>
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
href="www.coe.int">www.coe.int</a>), or Israel. Members of the
Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not
eligible.<br>
<br>
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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Proposals should be submitted only at:<br>
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<b><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2017">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2017</a></b><br>
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<b>The proposal should include:</b><br>
• Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants;<br>
• Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an
individual or a group;<br>
• Description of the achievements (max 5 pages);<br>
• Evidence of availability of the curricula materials to the
teaching community (max 2 pages);<br>
• Evidence of impact (max 5 pages);<br>
• A reference list (which may include URLs of supporting
material);<br>
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<b>Deadlines:</b><br>
• Proposal: June 1, 2017 <br>
• Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2017<br>
<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, 23-25 October
2017, 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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<b>Award Committee:</b><br>
• Jan Vahrenhold, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
(Chair)<br>
• Mordechai Ben-Ari, Weizmann Institute of Science<br>
• Michael E. Caspersen, Aarhus University<br>
• Kathi Fisler, Brown University<br>
• Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Lisa Kaczmarczyk PhD Consulting<br>
• Aiko Pras, University of Twente<br>
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<b>Further inquiries:</b><br>
<a href="mailto:education-award@informatics-europe.org">education-award@informatics-europe.org
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