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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-western"> <font face="Calibri">Dear
Colleagues,<br>
<br>
We would like to remind about the 2011 Informatics Europe
Curriculum Best Practices Award (see info below) and call your
attention for the near deadline of proposal abstract
submissions: <u><b>1 May 2011.</b></u><br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Cristina Pereira<br>
Informatics Europe <br>
Secretary-General<br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><b><font face="Calibri">2011 Informatics
Europe Curriculum Best Practices Award</font></b><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"></span>Informatics
Europe proudly announces the <b style="">2011 Curriculum Best
Practices Award</b>, devoted to curriculum initiatives in the
area of <b>Parallelism and Concurrency</b>. <br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"><b
style=""><br>
</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">The
Informatics Europe Curriculum Best Practices 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. </span></font><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> The
Award will reward a successful teaching effort in Europe that:<br>
</span>
<ul>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">has made a measurable difference in the teaching of parallelism and concurrency</span></pre>
</li>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">is widely available for reuse by the teaching community</span></pre>
</li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">has
made a measurable impact in its original institution and
beyond it.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> Examples
of impact include: course results, industry collaboration,
student projects, textbooks, influence on the curriculum of
other universities.<br>
<br>
</span>
<div align="justify"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> The
2011 Award is devoted to curriculum initiatives in the general
area of parallelism and concurrency. It is funded through a
generous grant from Intel Corporation.</span><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"><br>
<br>
<font color="#ff0000"><u>The amount of the Award is EUR
30,000.00</u></font></span></b><u><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"></span></u><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">The
Award can be awarded 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 (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.coe.int">www.coe.int</a>),
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). </span><br>
<br>
<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Proposals
should be submitted only at</span></b><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">: </span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informaticseuropebes">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informaticseuropebes</a><br>
<br>
</span></b>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"><b>The proposal should include</b></span></pre>
<ul>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Names and addresses of the applicant or applicants;</span></pre>
</li>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Indication of whether the submission is on behalf of an individual or a group;</span></pre>
</li>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Description of the achievements (max 5 pages);</span></pre>
</li>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Evidence of availability of the curriculum’s materials to the teaching community (max 2 pages) ;</span></pre>
</li>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Evidence of impact (max 5 pages);</span></pre>
</li>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Up to 5 letters of support. The letter of support will play an important role in the evaluation and may come from (for example) department management, academic colleagues in the same or another institution, industry colleagues;</span></pre>
</li>
<li>
<pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt; text-indent: -14.2pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">A reference list (which may include URLs of supporting material) (max 3 pages).</span></pre>
</li>
</ul>
<b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Deadlines:</span></b><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"><font
color="#ff0000"><u>Abstract:<span style=""> </span><span
style=""> </span><span
style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><b><span
style=""> </span></b><b style="">May 1, 2011</b></u> </font><span
style=""><font color="#ff0000"><b><u> </u> </b> </font>
</span> </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Full
proposal: <span style=""> </span><span
style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span
style=""> </span><b style="">June 1, 2011</b></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Notification
of winner(s):<span style=""> </span><span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><b
style="">August 1, 2011</b></span>
<pre style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> </span></pre>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">The
Award will be presented at the 7<sup>th</sup> European Computer
Science Summit, in Milan, 7-9 November 2011, where the winner or
winners (one representative in the case of an institution) will
be invited to give a talk on their achievements.</span> <br>
<br>
<br>
<b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Award
Committee:</span></b><br>
<b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"></span></b><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Michel
Raynal, IRISA/University of Rennes 1 (chair)</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Gregor
Engels, University of Paderborn (vice-chair)</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Gregory
Andrews, University of Arizona</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Mordechai<span
style=""> </span>Ben-Ari, Weizmann Institute </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Thomas
Gross, ETH Zurich</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Dan
Grossman, University of Washington </span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Rachid
Guerraoui, EPF Lausanne</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Mark
Harris, Intel</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Jeff
Kramer, Imperial College</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Walter
Tichy, University of Karlsruhe</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">Akinori
Yonezawa, University of Tokyo</span><br>
<br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> </span><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">For
full details visit:</span></b><br>
<br>
<span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/curriculum-award">www.informatics-europe.org/curriculum-award</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"> </span><br>
<br>
<b style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB">For
further inquires:</span></b><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-GB"><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:ie-curriculum-award@informatics-europe.org">ie-curriculum-award@informatics-europe.org</a></span>
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<p style="font-family: calibri,cursive;"> Dr. Cristina Pereira<br>
Informatics Europe<br>
Clausiusstrasse 59<br>
8092 Zurich <br>
Switzerland<br>
Tel: +41 44 633 9374<br>
Cell: +41 77 455 2370<br>
Fax: +41 44 632 1435<br>
Skype: cris-zh-work<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:cristina@informatics-europe.org">cristina@informatics-europe.org</a><br>
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