Informatics Europe proudly announces the Minerva Informatics Equality Award devoted to initiatives seeking to encourage and support the careers of women in Informatics research and education.
The fifth of this annual award will be presented in October and is sponsored by Google. On a three-year cycle the award will focus each year on a different stage of the career pipeline:. The Award is devoted to gender equality initiatives and policies supporting the transition of female PhD and postdoctoral researchers into faculty positions. 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. Submissions will need to demonstrate the impact that has been achieved. For examples of impact could include an improved career development and better agreements on career planning for female PhD students and postdocs as recorded in objective surveys of staff experience, and increasing numbers of female faculty.
The Award will be given to a Department or Faculty to be used for further work on supporting the transition of female PhD or postdocs to faculty positions. To be eligible, institutions must be located in one of the member or candidate member countries of the Council of Europe, or Israel.
The Award committee will review and evaluate each proposal. It reserves the right to split the prize between different applications.
