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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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