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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/education-award.html"><b>Best
Practices in Education Award</b></a><br>
<b> </b><b><br>
</b><b>2019 Edition</b><b><br>
</b><b>'Inclusive Education'</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><b>Presented by Informatics Europe</b><b><br>
</b><b>Sponsored by Microsoft</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/education-award/call-for-submissions-19.html"><b>Call
for Submissions Now Open</b></a><br>
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<p>Informatics Europe proudly announces its 2019 Best Practices in
Education Award devoted to initiatives targeting Inclusive
Education of different student groups such as the elderly,
immigrants or people with functional diversity. <br>
</p>
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;</li>
<li>is widely applicable and useful for the teaching community;</li>
<li>has made a measurable impact in its original institution and
beyond.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Examples of impact include course results, e-accessibility
frameworks and techniques, such as guidelines or frameworks based on
robotics; traditional and online courses, learners' projects,
textbooks, professional development, and influence on the curriculum
of other institutions/countries. The initiatives are not limited to
programming but include design and use of technology. <br>
<p>The 2019 Award is devoted to outstanding European educational
innovations that address Inclusion in Informatics teaching in the
classroom or beyond, at school or university level, or outside of
institutions. Innovation maybe technology-based (for example using
instructional technologies, MOOCs, learning analytics, etc.) or
pedagogical. The Award honours original contributions that focus
on innovative Informatics teaching practice toward Inclusion. <br>
</p>
<p>Experiences and reports showing how to use software or hardware
tools in order to improve inclusion and learning in other
disciplines than informatics will not be considered.</p>
<p><b>The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries a prize of EUR
5,000.</b></p>
<p><b>Submissions:</b></p>
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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/home">www.coe.int</a>), or
Israel. Members of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/working-groups/informatics-education.html">Informatics
Europe Education Working Group</a> 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>
<p><b>Proposals should be submitted only at:</b></p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2019">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2019</a></p>
<b>The proposal should include:</b><br>
<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.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<b>Deadlines:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Proposal: June 1, 2019</li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2019<br>
</li>
</ul>
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</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>
<b>Award Committee:</b><br>
<ul>
<li>Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway (Chair)</li>
<li>Michal Armoni, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel</li>
<li>
<div>Tone Bratteteig, University of Oslo, Norway</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>Sharon Lynn Chu, University of Florida, US</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>Michael Kölling, King's College London, UK</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera italiana,
Switzerland</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>Gabriela Marcu, University of Michigan, US</div>
</li>
<li>Jan Vahrenhold, <span class="p-name">University of Münster,
Germany</span></li>
</ul>
<p><b>Further inquiries:</b></p>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:education-award@informatics-europe.org">education-award@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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