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ACM Europe Report

ACM Europe Report. Andrew McGettrick San Francisco, November 2013. Education Initiatives. Two such initiatives were planned: The production of a report to advance education in schools throughout Europe

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ACM Europe Report

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  1. ACM Europe Report Andrew McGettrick San Francisco, November 2013

  2. Education Initiatives • Two such initiatives were planned: • The production of a report to advance education in schools throughout Europe • The creation of a high level computing education research conference in Europe – following on from the earlier Informatics Education Europe conferences

  3. Schools Report • This has been completed • It advocates education in digital literacy and informatics; the latter is heavy on programming • Both are seen as compulsory for all students, up to university / college entrance level

  4. Conference Initiative • This was to involve collaboration between Informatics Europe and SIGCSE, with ACM Europe having a watching brief, to consider creating a highly prestigious computing education conference in Europe for Europeans • A meeting was due to take place at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science, in Amsterdam • This would be adjacent to the (ninth) annual European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) organized by Informatics Europe and taking place on 7-9th October 2013 • SIGCSE will be present as well as Informatics Europe (IE) but also others who hold conferences on computing education in Europe • Possible annual conference co-sponsored by SIGCSE and IE

  5. Joint Advisory Committee SIGCSE / ACM Europe Michael Caspersen, Denmark mec@cse.au.dk Guido Rossling, Germany guido@tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de SerdarTasiran, Turkey stasiran@ku.edu.tr Informatics Europe Barbara Demo, University of Turin barbara@di.unito.it Antoine Petit, InriaAntoine.petit@inria.fr Jan Vahrenhold, University of Munster jan.vahrenhold@uni-muenster.de Other Important Addresses Susan Rodger, Chair of SIGCSE rodger@cs.duke.edu FabrizioGagliardi, Chair of ACM EuropeFabrizio.Gagliardi@hotmail.com Carlo Ghezzi, Chair of Informatics Europe carlo.ghezzi@polimi.it

  6. Outcome of Meeting • The meeting that took place in Amsterdam was less formal than anticipated. These notes are based on informal feedback • Michael Caspersen and Fabio Gagliardi (chair of ACM Europe) represented ACM interests • Antoine Petit, Barbara Demo and Jan Vahrenhold as well as Carlo Ghezzi attended on behalf of IE. • Explored remits, road map for next 2 years, etc • Observatory: work to be done on identifying thestate of Informatics education in each European country (similar to earlier CSTA activity)? To be ongoing. • Agreed to review major computing education conferences in Europe and explore need for a new major conference

  7. Informatics Europe Report • http://www.informatics-europe.org/images/documents/informatics-education-europe-data-2008-2012.pdf • This was published on 30th September 2013 and provides data about informatics education at university level in Europe. • Statistics (to be interpreted with some caution): • Roughly 500,000 students enrolled on bachelors degrees in Informatics, and • Roughly 200,000 enrolled in Masters degrees in Informatics

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