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<p>Dear WG Members,</p>
<p>First of all we would like to wish you a Happy and Successful New
Year! We hope that our productive cooperation will continue in
2020 and we are happy to announce you some further plans and
updates of the working group on Ethical/Social Impact of
Informatics as a Study Subject.</p>
<ul>
<li>We would like to gratefully thank Paola Mello from Università
di Bologna for leading the work of our group in a very
productive way and are happy to welcome a new WG coordinator –
Viola Schiaffonati, an associate professor of Logic and
Philosophy of Science at the Dipartimento di Elettronica,
Informazione e Bioingegneria of Politecnico di Milano. You can
find her background and research areas here: <a
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href="https://www.deib.polimi.it/eng/people/dettagli/70304">https://www.deib.polimi.it/eng/people/dettagli/70304</a>.
We wish Viola the success in her role.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>At the end of 2019, Informatics Europe became a partner of the
Erasmus+ Project <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/Ethics4EU">Ethics4EU - Ethical
Computer Science Education for Europe</a>. The key aims of
the project are to develop a common understanding of European
values in Ethics in Technology, to develop a community of
practice amongst Computer Science and Ethics lecturers who will
work together to develop online resources for the teaching and
assessment of ethics in Computer Science programmes, and to
upskill lecturers with the knowledge, skills and competencies in
ethical technology development in a European context.
Informatics Europe will work together with the leading
organization, TU Dublin, Ireland, and the other partners, and
support dissemination and communication of all actions and
outcomes, as well as help to recruit participants to the
different surveys and training phases.</li>
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<li>As the topic and goals of the project are aligned with the
focus of our Ethics Working group, we invite you all to <b>participate
in the project’s survey </b>examining existing practices in
the teaching of Ethics in Computer Science programmes across
Europe. <b>We would be very grateful if you could fill in the <a
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href="https://www.informatics-europe.org/survey/index.php/survey/index/sid/353637">online
questionnaire</a> on behalf of your
Department/School/Faculty/Institute <span
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only 15-20 minutes of your time. For your convenience, we have
also attached the PDF version of the questionnaire so that you
can see all questions together. Your feedback will help us to
prepare a report in which we summarize the existing practices
and outline possible approaches for developing a future
curriculum of Ethics in Computer Science programmes. Please also
feel free to <b>share the online questionnaire with your
colleagues from other universities </b>– the more diverse
the circle of participants, the more complete state of affairs
on the topic we could describe. <br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Thank you for your contribution!<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
</p>
<p>Enrico Nardelli (Informatics Europe President)<br>
Viola Schiaffonati (Working Group Coordinator)<br>
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Prof. Enrico Nardelli
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Informatics Europe President
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.informatics-europe.org">http://www.informatics-europe.org</a>
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