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    <p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
    <p>A friendly reminder of the upcoming Award deadline (June 30th).
      We look forward to receiving your nominations.</p>
    <p>Best regards,</p>
    <p>Informatics Europe</p>
    <p></p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/02/2023 13:19, Informatics Europe
      Office wrote:<br>
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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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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>
      </p>
      <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
          moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
      </p>
      <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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