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2016 Best Practices in Education Award
Presented by Informatics Europe
Sponsored by Microsoft Research
Deadline for Submissions - June 1, 2016
Nomination form at:
http://www.informatics-europe.org/services/education-award/14-curriculum-award/246-education-award-2016.html
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Informatics Europe proudly announces its 2016 Best Practices in
Education Award
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/services/education-award/14-curriculum-award/246-education-award-2016.html>
devoted to initiatives promoting informatics education in primary and
secondary schools.
The Informatics Europe Best Practices in Education Award recognizes
outstanding European educational initiatives that improve the quality of
informatics teaching and the attractiveness of the discipline, and can
be applied and extended beyond their institutions of origin.
The 2016 Award will reward a successful teaching effort in Europe that:
* has made a measurable difference in informatics education in schools
* is widely applicable and useful for the teaching community
* has made a measurable impact in its original institution(s) and beyond
Examples of impact include course results, student projects, textbooks,
professional development, and influence on the curriculum of other
schools/countries.
The 2016 Award is devoted to curriculum and professional development
initiatives for promoting informatics in schools as a mandatory subject
for all students. Initiatives at the (upper) secondary level are
particularly encouraged. The Award will honor original contributions
that emphasize successful initiatives for teaching of informatics
fundamentals in schools. Experiences and reports showing how to use
software or hardware tools in order to improve learning in other
disciplines than informatics will not be considered.
The Award, funded through a Microsoft grant, carries a prize of EUR 5,000.
The Award can be given to an individual or to a group. To be eligible,
participants must be located in one of the member or candidate member
countries of the Council of Europe (www.coe.int), or Israel. Members of
the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award Committee are not
eligible.The Award Committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It
reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different
proposals (individuals or teams).
Proposals should be submitted only at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iebpea2016
The proposal should include:
* Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants;
* Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an individual
or a group;
* Description of the achievements (max 5 pages);
* Evidence of availability of the curricula materials to the teaching
community (max 2 pages);
* Evidence of impact (max 5 pages);
* A reference list (which may include URLs of supporting material);
* One or two letters of support. The letters of support may come for
example from school management or colleagues in the same or another
institution.
Deadlines:
* Abstract and full proposal: June 1, 2016
* Notification of winner(s):August 1, 2016
The Award will be presented at the 12th European Computer Science Summit
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2016.html>, in Budapest,
24-26 October 2016, where the winner or winners (one representative in
the case of an institution) will be invited to give a talk on their
achievements.
Award Committee:
* Michael E. Caspersen, Aarhus University (Chair)
* Gerard Berry, Collège de France
* Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow
* Judith Gal-Ezer, The Open University of Israel
* Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology
* Lauri Malmi, Aalto University
* Carsten Schulte, Paderborn University
* Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano
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