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    <p>Dear Colleagues,<br>
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    <p>Informatics Europe proudly announces the <b>Minerva Informatics
        Equality Award</b>, devoted to initiatives seeking to encourage
      and support the careers of women in informatics research and
      education. Coming into its eighth year, the Award is sponsored by
      Google.</p>
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      <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/minerva-informatics-equality-award.html">Minerva
          Informatics Equality Award: Now Open for Submissions</a></b><br>
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      Presented by Informatics Europe & EUGAIN COST Action<br>
      Sponsored by Google<br>
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    <p>The Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognises outstanding
      European initiatives and best practices that <b>encourage and
        support the careers of women in informatics research and
        education. </b><br>
      <br>
      The Award seeks to celebrate <b>s</b><b>uccessful initiatives
        that have had a measurable impact on the careers of women at all
        stages</b>. Such initiatives can serve as exemplars of best
      practices within the community, with the potential to be widely
      adopted by other institutions. Submissions need to demonstrate the
      impact that has been achieved.</p>
    <p><b>The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.</b><br>
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    <p>The Award will be given to an individual or to a group to be used
      for further work on promoting gender equality. To be eligible for
      the award, applying candidates must be affiliated with
      institutions 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>Members of the Award Committee are
        not eligible. </b><br>
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    <p>This year the Award committee is composed by <a
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href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/minerva-informatics-equality-award/best-practices-in-supporting-women.html">past
        Minerva winners</a>, members of our <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/diversity-and-inclusion/working-group.html">Diversity
        & Inclusion Working Group</a>, as well as members of <a
        moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://eugain.eu/">EUGAIN</a>, the
      COST Action on Gender Equality in Informatics initiated by
      Informatics Europe in 2020. The Committee reserves the right to
      split the prize between different applications. <br>
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    <p><b>Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023 <br>
      </b></p>
    <p><b>Submission and Award committee details: </b>please visit the
      <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/minerva-informatics-equality-award.html">Minerva
        Award dedicated page</a>.</p>
    <p>The Award will be presented during the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html">19th
        European Computer Science Summit (ECSS)</a>, which will be held
      in Edinburgh, UK, between October 23-25, 2023, where a
      representative of the winning institution(s) will be invited to
      give a short talk on their achievements. Noteworthy runners up may
      also be included as <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/minerva-informatics-equality-award/best-practices-in-supporting-women.html">exemplars
        of best practice</a> in future Informatics Europe publications.</p>
    <p><b>Further inquiries: </b><br>
      <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Further
        inquiries:minerva-award@informatics-europe.org">minerva-award@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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