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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>
<br>
<b>2020 Edition</b><br>
<b> </b><b>'Lifelong Education and Talent Gap in Informatics'</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="https://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/education-award/call-for-submissions-20.html"><b>Call
for Submissions Still Open - Deadline Extended to 15 June 2020</b></a><br>
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<p>Informatics Europe is <b>extending the submissions deadline to
15 June</b> for the 2020 Best Practices in Education Award
devoted to educational initiatives that promote lifelong education
in Informatics as a mean to reduce the talent gap. <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, traditional and online
courses, learners’ projects, textbooks, professional development,
and influence on the curriculum of other institutions/countries.<br>
<p><b>The 2020 Education Award Theme is Lifelong Education and
Talent Gap in Informatics</b>. Working lives nowadays are so
long and fast-changing that it is not possible to limit education
to the traditional 13-18 years period in the youth of each
individual. People should be allowed to acquire new skills
throughout their career without this interfering with their
personal and family life. Thus, new educational paths must be
conceived that allow people to modernize their know-how and also
to increase their abilities and competences in emerging sectors
that are not necessarily contiguous to their main expertise. The
talent gap we are experiencing in Informatics poses this
discipline as one of those that should certainly be incorporated
in such lifelong educational paths. The winner of the 2020
Education Award will be an outstanding <b>European Informatics</b><b>
</b><b>educational initiative that</b> <b>promotes lifelong
education in Informatics as a mean to reduce the talent ga</b><b>p</b>.
Experiences in this area, as well as new educational approaches
with some evidence of their effectiveness, are welcomed. <br>
</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). Moreover, noteworthy runners up
may also be included as exemplars of best practice in future
Informatics Europe publications.<br>
<p><b>Proposals should be submitted only at:</b></p>
<p><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2020"
target="_blank" rel="noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2020</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: 15 June 2020</li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): 1 August 2020<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">16th
European Computer Science Summit</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>
<p><b>Award Committee:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (Chair)</li>
<li>Ismael García-Varea, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain</li>
<li>Jean-Marc Jézéquel, IRISA / University of Rennes, France</li>
<li>Michael Kölling, King's College London, UK</li>
<li>Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera italiana,
Switzerland</li>
<li>Gabriela Marcu, University of Michigan, US<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
</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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