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    <p>Dear Colleagues,<br>
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        <p><b>Until June 1st</b>, you can <b>submit your proposal to
            Informatics Europe's 2022 Best Practices in Education Award</b>
          devoted to initiatives educating the workforce for the digital
          transformation. </p>
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                  <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/education/education-award.html">Best
                      Practices in Education Award</a></b><br>
                  <b>2022 Edition: "Educating the Workforce for the
                    Digital Transformation"</b><br>
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                <p>Presented by Informatics Europe<br>
                  Sponsored by Microsoft<b><br>
                    *with a prize of EUR 5,000*</b></p>
                <p> <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/education/education-award/call-for-submissions-22.html">Now
                      Open for Submissions</a></b><br>
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                <p>The Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education
                  Award recognises 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>
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                  The Award will reward a successful teaching effort in
                  Europe that:<br>
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                  <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(s) and beyond.</li>
                </ul>
                <p>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>
                  <br>
                  <b>The 2022 Education Award Theme is educating the
                    workforce for the digital transformation.</b> The
                  winner will be an outstanding European informatics
                  educational initiative that prepares the workforce for
                  the digital transformation in the classroom or beyond,
                  at school or university level, or outside of
                  institutions. Educational initiatives may be
                  technology-based (for example, using instructional
                  technologies, MOOCs, learning analytics, etc.) or
                  pedagogical. Experiences in this area, as well as new
                  educational approaches with some evidence of their
                  effectiveness, are welcomed.<br>
                  <br>
                  <b>The Award is sponsored by Microsoft and carries <u>a
                      prize of EUR 5,000</u>.</b><br>
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                  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="http://www.coe.int/">www.coe.int</a>), or
                  Israel. Members of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/education/informatics-in-schools.html">Informatics
                    Europe Education Task Force</a> and of the Award
                  Committee are not eligible.<br>
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                  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>
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                  <b>Proposals should be submitted only at:</b><br>
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2022"
                    class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2022</a></p>
                <p>They must be in English, in pdf format and at least
                  11-point font with reasonable margins.<br>
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                  <b>The proposal should include:</b><br>
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                  <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.</li>
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                <p><b>Deadlines:</b><br>
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                  <li>Proposal: <b>1 June 2022</b></li>
                  <li>Notification of winner(s): <b>August 2022</b></li>
                </ul>
                <p>The Award will be presented at the <a
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                    href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">18th
                    European Computer Science Summit</a> (ECSS), which
                  will be held between 24 and 26 October 2022 in Hamburg
                  where a representative of the winning institution(s)
                  will be invited to give a talk on their achievements.<br>
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                  <b>Award Committee:</b><br>
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                  <li>Ismael García-Varea, Universidad Castilla-La
                    Mancha, Spain (Chair)</li>
                  <li>Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science
                    and Technology, Norway</li>
                  <li>Jean-Marc Jézéquel, IRISA / University of Rennes,
                    France</li>
                  <li>Kim Mens, Université Catholique de Louvain,
                    Belgium</li>
                  <li>Lili Nemec Zlatolas, University of Maribor,
                    Slovenia</li>
                  <li>Violetta Lonati, University of Milan, Italy</li>
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                <p><b>Further inquiries:</b><br>
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:education-award@informatics-europe.org"
                    class="moz-txt-link-freetext">education-award@informatics-europe.org
                  </a><br>
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