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<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
<div class="moz-forward-container">Submissions to our <b>Minerva
Informatics Equality Award</b> are still welcome! <b>Submit
your proposal</b> <b>now <u>until June 15th (Wed)</u></b> for
this year's award devoted to initiatives seeking to encourage and
support the careers of women in informatics research and
education.
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/social-impact/minerva-informatics-equality-award.html">Minerva
Informatics Equality Award</a></b><b><br>
</b><b>2022 Edition: "Developing the careers of
female faculty, including retention and
promotion."</b><br>
<br>
Presented by Informatics Europe & EUGAIN COST
Action<br>
Sponsored by Google<br>
<b>*</b><b>with a prize of EUR 5,000*</b></p>
<p> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/social-impact/minerva-informatics-equality-award/call-for-submissions-2022.html"><b>Now
Open for Submissions</b></a><br>
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<p>The Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises
best practices in Departments/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>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Developing the careers of female faculty,
including retention and promotion;</li>
<li>Supporting the transition of female PhD and
postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions;</li>
<li>Encouraging female students to enrol in computer
science/informatics programmes and retaining them.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>The 2022 Award</b><b> is devoted to gender
equality initiatives and policies to develop the
careers of female faculty, including retention and
promotion.</b><br>
<br>
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>
For 2022, examples of impact could include an
improved success rate in recruiting, retaining and
promoting female staff, increased satisfaction
scores from objective surveys of staff experience,
achievement of 'beacon' status (i.e. being used as
an exemplar within national or regional
initiatives).<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 promoting gender
equality. To be eligible for the award, applying
institutions must be located in one of the member or
candidate member countries of the <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.coe.int/">Council
of Europe</a>, or Israel. <b>Institutions
associated with members of the Award Committee are
not eligible.</b> For organizations with more than
one Departments or Institutes, applications coming
only from the Department or the Institute with which
an Award Committee member is affiliated will not be
considered.<br>
<br>
The Award committee reserves the right to split the
prize between different applications. Moreover,
noteworthy runners up may also be included as <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/social-impact/minerva-informatics-equality-award/best-practices-in-supporting-women.html">exemplars
of best practice</a> in future Informatics Europe
publications.<br>
<br>
<b>Proposals should be submitted only at:</b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2022"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2022</a><br>
<br>
They must be in English, in pdf format and at least
11-point font with reasonable margins.<br>
<br>
<b>The submission should include:</b><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Contact information of the Head/Director of the
applying Department or Faculty and the responsible
person 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 materials);</li>
<li>Optionally, one or two letters of support. The
letters of support may come, for example, from
female faculty who have benefited from the scheme,
or from the Dean/Head of the organization of the
applying Institution confirming impact;</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.</li>
</ul>
<p>Submissions not conforming to the above rules and
applications outside of the scope of the current
cycle of the Award will be rejected without
consideration.<br>
<br>
<b>Key Dates:</b><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Submission Deadline: <b>15 June 2022</b></li>
<li>Notification of winner(s): <b>August 2022</b></li>
</ul>
<p>The Award will be presented during the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">18th
European Computer Science Summit</a> (ECSS), which
will be held in Hamburg, Germany, October 24-26,
2022, where a representative of the winning
institution(s) will be invited to give a talk on
their achievements.<br>
<br>
<b>Award Committee:</b><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Karima Boudaoud, Ecole Polytechnique de Nice
Sophia Antipolis, France (Co-Chair)</li>
<li>Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK
(Co-Chair)</li>
<li>David Billard, Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève,
Switzerland</li>
<li>Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany</li>
<li>Lucia Happe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
German</li>
<li>Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Università degli
Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy</li>
<li>Emanuela Merelli, University of Camerino, Italy</li>
<li>Simona Motogna, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania</li>
<li>Paula Alexandra Silva, University of Coimbra,
Portugal</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Further inquiries:</b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:minerva-award@informatics-europe.org"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">minerva-award@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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