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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/minerva-informatics-equality-award.html"><b>Minerva
Informatics Equality Award</b></a><br>
<br>
<b>2019 Edition</b><b><br>
</b><b>'Developing the Careers of Female Faculty'</b><br>
<br>
<b>Presented by Informatics Europe</b><b><br>
</b><b>Sponsored by Google</b><br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/minerva-informatics-equality-award/call-for-submissions-2019.html"><b>Call
for Submissions Now Open</b></a><br>
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Informatics Europe proudly announces the fourth Minerva Informatics
Equality Award devoted to initiatives seeking to encourage and
support the careers of women in Informatics research and education.
The fourth of this annual award will be presented in October 2019
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 for PhD and postdoctoral researchers
into faculty positions;</li>
<li>Encouraging female students to enroll in Computer
Science/Informatics programs and retaining them.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The <b>2019 Award</b> is devoted to <b>gender equality
initiatives and policies to develop the careers of female
faculty</b>.</p>
<p>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. Submissions will need to
demonstrate the impact that has been achieved.<br>
<br>
<b>For 2019 examples of impact could include an improved success
rate in recruiting, retaining and promoting female staff,
increased satisfaction scores from objective surveys of staff
experience, achievement of 'beacon' status (i.e. being used
as an exemplar within national or regional initiatives).</b><br>
<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 promoting gender equality. To be eligible,
institutions must be located in one of the member or candidate
member countries of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/home">Council of Europe</a>,
or Israel. Institutions associated with members of the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/working-groups/women-in-icst-research-and-education.html">WIRE
Working Group</a> and of the Award panel are not eligible. 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>
<br>
Proposals should be submitted only at:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2019">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2019</a><br>
</p>
<p>The proposal should include:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Contact information of the Head/Director of the applying
Department or Faculty and the responsible for the application;</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.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Deadlines:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Full submissions: June 1, 2019</li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2019<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The Award will be presented at the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">15th
European Computer Science Summit (ECSS)</a>, in Rome, October
28-30, 2019, where a representative of the winning institution
will be invited to give a talk on their achievements.<br>
<br>
Award Panel:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Dana Petcu</b>, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara,
Romania (Chair)</li>
<li><b>Josephina Antoniou</b>, University of Central Lancashire,
Cyprus</li>
<li><b>Maria Carla Calzarossa</b>, Università di Pavia, Italy</li>
<li><b>Elisabetta Di Nitto</b>, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</li>
<li><b>M.J. Escalona</b>, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain</li>
<li><b>Maria Ganzha</b>, Politechnika Warszawska, Poland</li>
<li><b>Ilona Heldal</b>, Bergen University College, Norway</li>
<li><b>Aneta Karaivanova</b>, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgaria</li>
<li><b>Olaf Owe</b>, University of Oslo, Norway</li>
<li><b>Laura Ricci</b>, Università di Pisa, Italy.</li>
</ul>
<p>Further inquiries:<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:minerva-award@informatics-europe.org">minerva-award@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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