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<p>Dear Colleagues,<br>
<br>
We are happy to forward you the call for submissions of our 2021
Minerva Informatics Equality Award:<br>
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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>2021 Edition</b><br>
<b> </b><b>'Recruiting and Supporting Female Students'</b><br>
<br>
<b>Presented by Informatics Europe</b><b> & EUGAIN COST Action<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-2021.html"><b>Call
for Submissions Now Open</b></a><br>
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<br>
Informatics Europe proudly announces the Minerva Informatics
Equality Award devoted to initiatives seeking to encourage and
support the careers of women in Informatics research and education.
The sixth of these annual awards will be presented in October 2021
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 programmes and retaining them.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The <b>2021 Award</b> is devoted to <b>gender equality
initiatives encouraging female students to enrol in Computer
Science/Informatics programmes and retaining them. </b><br>
</p>
<p>The Award seeks to celebrate successful initiatives that have had
a measurable impact on the recruitment and support of female
students 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 2021 examples of impact could include fostering gender
balance in all aspects of students’ education, better admission,
recruitment and graduation rates for female students, better
gender ratio of students receiving stipends, scholarships and
other financial support, improved curriculum, designed based on
gender analysis, as recorded in objective surveys of staff and
student experience, etc.</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 encouraging the recruitment and support of female
students. To be eligible, institutions must be located in one of
the member or candidate member countries of the <a
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href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/home">Council of Europe</a>,
or Israel. Institutions associated with members of the Award
committee are not eligible. <br>
</p>
<p>The Award committee, with participation of members from the <a
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href="https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19122/">EUGAIN COST Action</a>,
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 <a
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href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/minerva-informatics-equality-award/best-practices-in-supporting-women.html">exemplars
of best practice</a> in future Informatics Europe publications.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b> Proposals should be submitted only at:</b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2021</a>
<br>
</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 students 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: 1 June 2021</li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): 1 August 2021<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The Award Ceremony, jointly organized by <a
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href="https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA19122/">EUGAIN</a> and
Informatics Europe, will be held at the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">17th
European Computer Science Summit (ECSS)</a>, 25-27 October 2021
in Madrid (if the COVID-19 situation allows), 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>Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK (Chair)</li>
<li>Hagit Attiya, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Israel</li>
<li>Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic</li>
<li>Sarah Jane Delany, TU Dublin, Ireland</li>
<li>Steve Kremer, Inria, France</li>
<li>Monica Landoni, Università della Svizzera italiana,
Switzerland</li>
<li>Brenda Murphy, University of Malta, Malta</li>
<li>Ute Schmid, University of Bamberg, Germany</li>
</ul>
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<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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