[TYPES/announce] Call for Nominations - 1st Minerva Informatics Equality Award
Inge van Halst
inge.van.halst at informatics-europe.org
Thu Mar 10 08:25:20 EST 2016
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*1st Minerva Informatics Equality
Award***<http://www.informatics-europe.org/services/minerva-award.html>
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2015.html>
*2016 Edition*
*"Developing the Careers of Female Faculty"*
*presented by Informatics Europe*
*Sponsored by Google *
*Call for Nominations now
open.**<http://www.informatics-europe.org/services/minerva-award/34-minerva-award/243-minerva-2016.html>*
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Informatics Europe proudly announces the first Minerva Informatics
Equality Award
(http://www.informatics-europe.org/services/minerva-award.html) devoted
to initiatives which seek to encourage and support the careers of women
in Informatics research and education.
The first of this annual award will be made in October 2016 and will be
sponsored by Google.
The Minerva Informatics Equality Award recognizes best practices in
Departments or Faculties of European universities or research labs that
have been demonstrated to have a positive impact for women.
On a three-year cycle the award will focus each year on a different
stage of the career pipeline:
* Developing the careers of female faculty, including retention
and promotion;
* Supporting the transition for PhD and postdoctoral researchers
into faculty positions;
* Encouraging female students to enroll in Computer
Science/Informatics programmes and retaining them.
The *2016 Award* is devoted to gender equality*initiatives and policies
to develop the careers of female faculty*.
*Criteria*
The Award seeks to celebrate successful initiatives that have had a
measurable impact on the careers of women within the institution. Such
initiatives can serve as exemplars of best practices within the
community, with the potential to be widely adopted by other
institutions. Nominations will need to demonstrate the impact that has
been achieved. For 2016 examples of impact could include an improved
success rate in recruiting, retaining and promoting female staff,
increased satisfaction scores from objective surveys of staff
experience, achievement of “beacon” status (i.e. being used as an
exemplar within national or regional initiatives).
*Prize*
This Google-sponsored Award carries a prize of EUR 5,000.
The Award will be given to a Department or Faculty to be used for
further work on promoting gender equality. To be eligible, nominated
institutions must be located in one of the member or candidate member
countries of the Council of Europe, or Israel. Institutions associated
with members of the Informatics Europe Board and of the Award panel are
not eligible. The Award panel will review and evaluate each proposal. It
reserves the right to split the prize between at most two different
proposals. Moreover, noteworthy runners up may also be included as
exemplars of best practice in future Informatics Europe publications.
*Nomination*
Proposals should be submitted only at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miea2016
*The proposal should include*:
* Contact information for the Head of the nominated Department or
Faculty and the nominator (who can be the same)
* A brief summary or abstract (100 words or less) which can be
made public
* Description of the initiative (max 2 pages)
* Evidence of its impact (max 2 pages)
* An optional reference list (which may include URLs of
supporting material)
* Optionally, one or two letters of support. The letters of
support may come, for example, from female staff members who have
benefited from the scheme
*Deadlines:*
* Public summary: May 1, 2016
* Full nominations: June 1, 2016
* Notification of winner(s): August 1, 2016
The Award will be presented at the 12th European Computer Science Summit
(ECSS), in Budapest, October 24-26, 2016, where a representative of the
winning institution will be invited to give a talk on their achievements.
*Award Panel:*
* Micheline Beaulieu, Emeritus Professor of Information Science,
University of Sheffield, UK (Chair)
* Erika Abraham, Professor of Hybrid Systems, RWTH Aachen
University, Germany
* Luca Aceto, Professor of Computer Science, Reykjavik
University, Iceland
* Christine Choppy, Professor of Logic, Calculi and Reasoning,
University of Paris Nord, France
* John Clark, Professor of Critical Systems, University of York, UK
* Dunja Mladenic, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Jozef
Stefan Institute, Slovenia
* Pierangela Samarati, Professor of Information Technologies,
University of Milan, Italy
*Further inquiries:*
minerva-award at informatics-europe.org
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