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Dear Colleagues, <br>
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<p>Informatics Europe <b>is still accepting submissions</b> for
the Minerva Informatics Equality Award.<br>
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Informatics Equality Award</b></a><br>
<b>2021 Edition</b><b><br>
</b><b>'Recruiting and Supporting Female Students'</b><br>
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<b>Presented by Informatics Europe</b><b> & EUGAIN COST
Action<br>
</b><b>Sponsored by Google</b><br>
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href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/minerva-informatics-equality-award/call-for-submissions-2021.html"><b>Call
for Submissions Now Open - Deadline: 1 June 2021</b></a><br>
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<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>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.<b> </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. <br>
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<b>The Award is sponsored by Google and carries a prize of EUR
5,000.</b><br>
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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>
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<p><b>Proposals should be submitted only at: </b><a
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Further detailed information about this year's award, the
proposal requirements and Award Committee can be found on the <a
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href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/awards/minerva-informatics-equality-award/call-for-submissions-2021.html">award
website</a>. <br>
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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
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href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">17th
European Computer Science Summit (ECSS)</a> as a hybrid event
from 25-27 October 2021 in Madrid, where a representative of the
winning institution(s) will be invited to give a talk on their
achievements.
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<p><b>Further inquiries: </b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:minerva-award@informatics-europe.org">minerva-award@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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