Informatics Europe
is still accepting submissions
for its 2017 Best Practices in Education Award devoted to
initiatives
making Informatics education available to all.
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 Award will reward a successful teaching/dissemination
effort in Europe that:
• has made a measurable difference in Informatics education
• 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, traditional and
online courses, learners’ projects, textbooks, professional
development, and influence on the curriculum of other
institutions/countries.
The 2017 Award is devoted to curriculum and professional
development initiatives for making Informatics education
available to all. The Award will honour original contributions
that emphasize successful initiatives for teaching of
Informatics fundamentals in one of the following areas:
• Reaching out to non-traditional audiences, e.g., in
continuing professional development or to senior citizens.
• Educating the general public, e.g., with respect to data
security and privacy.
• Including Informatics education in other curricula, e.g.,
in general teacher training.
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 carries a prize of EUR 5000.
Submissions:
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=iebpea2017
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);
Deadlines:
• Proposal: June 1, 2017
• Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2017
The Award will be presented at the
13th
European Computer Science Summit, in Lisbon, 23-25
October 2017, 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:
• Jan Vahrenhold, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
(Chair)
• Mordechai Ben-Ari, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Michael E. Caspersen, Aarhus University
• Kathi Fisler, Brown University
• Lisa Kaczmarczyk, Lisa Kaczmarczyk PhD Consulting LLC
• Aiko Pras, University of Twente
Further inquiries:
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