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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>
<b>2020 Edition</b><b><br>
</b><b>'Supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral
researchers into faculty positions'</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="https://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/minerva-informatics-equality-award/call-for-submissions-2020.html"><b>Call
for Submissions Still Open - Deadline Extended to 15 June 2020</b></a><br>
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<br>
Informatics Europe <b>is extending the submissions deadline to 15
June</b> for the fifth Minerva Informatics Equality Award devoted
to initiatives seeking to encourage and support the careers of women
in Informatics research and education. The fifth of this annual
award <b>carries a prize of EUR 5,000 </b>and is sponsored by
Google.<br>
<br>
The Informatics Europe Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises
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 enrol in Computer
Science/Informatics programs and retaining them.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The <b>2020 Award</b> is devoted to <b>gender equality
initiatives and policies supporting the transition of female PhD
and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions.</b><br>
</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 2020 examples of impact could include an improved career
development and better agreements on career planning for female
PhD students and postdocs as recorded in objective surveys of
staff experience, and increasing numbers of female faculty.</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 committee are not eligible.
The Award committee 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>
</b><b> Proposals should be submitted only at:</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2020"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2020</a>
</p>
<p><b>The proposal should include:</b><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Contact information of the Head/Director of the applying
Department or Faculty and the responsible for the application
(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.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Deadlines:</b><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Full submissions: 15 June 2020</li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): 1 August 2020<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">16th
European Computer Science Summit (ECSS)</a>, which will be held
online on 26-28 October 2020, where a representative of the
winning institution(s) will be invited to give a talk on their
achievements<br>
<br>
<b>Award Committee:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Chalmers University of Technology and
Mälardalen University, Sweden (Chair)</li>
<li>Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria</li>
<li>Sylvia Ilieva, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski",
Bulgaria</li>
<li>Dympna O'Sullivan, TU Dublin, Ireland</li>
<li>Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway</li>
<li>Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology,
Netherlands.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
</ul>
<p><b>Further inquiries:</b><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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