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Informatics Europe <b>is </b><b>still accepting submissions</b>
for the third Minerva Informatics Equality Award devoted to
initiatives which seek to encourage and support the careers of
women in Informatics research and education. The third of this
annual award will be presented in October 2018 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 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:<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>
<b>The 2018 Award is devoted to initiatives </b><strong>encouraging
female students to enroll in Computer Science/Informatics
programmes and retaining them.</strong><b><br>
</b><br>
The Award seeks to celebrate successful initiatives that have had
a measurable impact on the recruitment and support of female
students 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.<br>
<br>
<b>For 2018 examples of impact could include fostering gender
balance in all aspects of students’ education, better admission,
recruitment and graduation rates for female students, better
gender ratio of students receiving stipends, scholarships and
other financial support, improved curriculum, designed based on
gender analysis, as recorded in objective surveys of staff and
student experience, etc.<br>
</b> <br>
<b>The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.</b><br>
<br>
The Award will be given to a Department or Faculty to be used for
further work on enforcing the recruitment and support of female
students. 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 different
applications. Moreover, noteworthy runners up may also be included
as exemplars of best practice in future Informatics Europe
publications.<br>
<b><br>
Proposals should be submitted only at:</b><br>
<br>
<a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=minervaieaward2018"
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=minervaieaward2018</a><br>
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<b>The proposal should include:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Contact information for the Head/Director 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>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<b>Deadlines:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Full submissions: June 1, 2018</li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2018</li>
</ul>
The Award will be presented at the <a
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">14th European Computer Science Summit</a>,
in Gothenburg (Sweden), October 8-10, 2018, 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>Panagiota Fatourou, Foundation for Research and
Technology-Hellas (FORTH) and University of Crete, Greece
(Chair)</li>
<li>Liliana Cucu, INRIA, France</li>
<li>Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK</li>
<li>Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland <br>
</li>
<li>Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</li>
<li>Kurt Mehlhorn, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany</li>
<li>Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania</li>
<li>Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel</li>
</ul>
<b>Further inquiries:</b><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:minerva-award@informatics-europe.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">minerva-award@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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