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<p>Dear colleagues, </p>
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<p>We invite you to nominate for the 2024 Minerva Informatics
Equality Award, <b>honoring initiatives which foster women’s
careers in informatics research and education</b>. Now in
its ninth year, the Award is proudly sponsored by Google.</p>
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<p><a
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/minerva-informatics-equality-award.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b>2024 Minerva Informatics Equality
Award: Apply Now</b></a><br>
<b>Submission Deadline: 1 June 2024</b><br>
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<p>Presented by Informatics Europe & EUGAIN COST Action<br>
Sponsored by Google<br>
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<p>The Award celebrates <b>impactful initiatives benefiting
women’s careers in informatics research and education at all
stages</b>, serving as community best practices and
potential models for other institutions. Submissions need to
demonstrate the impact achieved.</p>
<p><b>The Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000</b>, granted to a
winning individual or group for their further work on
promoting gender equality in informatics. Eligible candidates
must be affiliated with institutions in one of the member or
candidate member countries of the <a
href="http://www.coe.int/" moz-do-not-send="true">Council of
Europe</a>, or Israel. <b>Members of this year’s Award
Committee are not eligible to the Award.</b></p>
<p>This year the Award committee comprises members from IE’s <a
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/diversity-and-inclusion/working-group.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">Diversity & Inclusion Working
Group</a>, representative(s) of <a
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/minerva-informatics-equality-award/best-practices-in-supporting-women.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">previous Minerva Award recipients</a>,
as well as members of <a href="https://eugain.eu/"
moz-do-not-send="true">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
among multiple winners.<br>
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<p><b>For full details and to apply, please visit the dedicated
Award <a
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/minerva-informatics-equality-award.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">webpage</a>.</b></p>
<p>The Award will be presented at the <a
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/home.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">20th European Informatics Leaders
Summit (ECSS)</a> in Malta, October 28-30, 2024, where a
representative of the winning proposal(s) will be invited to
give a brief talk on their achievements. Notable runners-up
may also be featured as <a
href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/society/minerva-informatics-equality-award/best-practices-in-supporting-women.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">exemplars of best practice</a> in
future Informatics Europe publications.<br>
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<p>For enquiries, please email to <a
href="mailto:minerva-award@informatics-europe.org"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">minerva-award@informatics-europe.org</a>.<br>
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<p>We look forward to receiving your nominations.<br>
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<p>Best regards,<br>
Informatics Europe<br>
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