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Informatics Europe is still accepting submissions for its 2018
Best Practices in Education Award devoted to <b>initiatives
transforming Informatics education.</b><br>
<br>
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>
<br>
The Award rewards a successful teaching effort in Europe that:<br>
<ul>
<li>has made a measurable difference in Informatics education;
<br>
</li>
<li>is widely applicable and useful for the teaching community;</li>
<li>has made a measurable impact in its original institution(s)
and beyond.<br>
</li>
</ul>
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>
<br>
<b>The 2018 Award is devoted to</b> <b>European educational
innovation that transforms Informatics teaching</b><b> </b>in
the classroom or beyond, at school or university level, or outside
of institutions. Innovation may be technology-based (for example
using instructional technologies, MOOCs, learning analytics, etc.)
or pedagogical. The Award will honour original contributions that
focus on innovative Informatics teaching practice.
<p>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.</p>
<strong>The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries a prize of
EUR 5,000.</strong><b><br>
<br>
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
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>
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>
<br>
Proposals should be submitted only at:<strong><br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2018">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2018</a><br>
<br>
The proposal should include:</strong>
<ul>
<li>Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants;</li>
<li>Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an
individual or a group;</li>
<li>Description of the achievements (max 5 pages);</li>
<li>Evidence of availability of the outcomes of the initiative
to the teaching community (max 2 pages);</li>
<li>Evidence of impact (max 5 pages);</li>
<li>A reference list (which may include URLs of supporting
material);</li>
<li>One or two letters of support. The letters of support may
come for example from school or university management,
associations, or colleagues in the same or another
institution.</li>
</ul>
<b>Deadlines:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Proposal: June 1, 2018</li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2018<br>
</li>
</ul>
The Award will be presented at the <a
data-mce-href="index.php?Itemid=671" moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">14th
European Computer Science Summit</a>, in Gothenburg, Sweden,
8-10 October 2018, where the winner or winners (one representative
in the case of an institution) will be invited to give a talk on
their achievements.<br>
<b><br>
Award Committee:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Michael Kölling, King's College London, UK (Chair)</li>
<li>Michal Armoni, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel</li>
<li>Tim Bell, University of Canterbury, New Zealand</li>
<li>Peter Hubwieser, Technische Universität München, Germany</li>
<li>Peter McOwen, Queen Mary University of London, UK</li>
<li>Arnold Pears, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden</li>
<li>Jan Vahrenhold, Universität Münster, Germany</li>
</ul>
<b>Further inquiries:<br>
</b><a href="mailto:education-award@informatics-europe.org"
data-mce-href="mailto:education-award@informatics-europe.org">education-award@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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