The ACM Europe Council is a new effort recently launched by ACM to recognize and support European ACM members and activities.

ACM has launched a new effort to recognize and support European ACM members and ACM activities in Europe. The European ACM community is significant, with more than 15,000 members, many ACM chapters, and a large number of ACM sponsored conferences and symposia. Like the ACM itself, the European ACM community has been in existence for more than 50 years. The goal of this effort is to serve the European members of ACM by improving the exchange of ideas, and by raising awareness with the public and with European decision-makers of important technical, educational, and social issues related to computing.

The ACM Europe Council, a new organization within ACM, aims to increase the level and visibility of ACM activities across Europe. This council comprises European computer scientists committed to fostering the visibility and relevance of ACM in Europe, and is focused on a wide range of European ACM activities, from high-quality ACM conferences in Europe, to expanding ACM chapters, to encouraging greater participation of Europeans in all dimensions of ACM.

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Chair: Fabrizio Gagliardi, Europe, Middle East and Africa Director for External Research, Microsoft Research | Author profile

Members:

• Reyyan Ayfer, Bilkent University, Turkey | Author profile
• Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona Spain | Author profile
• Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Universite Paris-Sud, France | Author profile
• Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy | Author profile
• Mashhuda Glencross, Loughborough University, UK | Author profile
• Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, UK (past ACM President) | Author profile
• David Harper, EMEA University Relations, Google, Zurich, Switzerland | Author profile
• Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy | Author profile
• Matthias Kaiserswerth, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland | Author profile
• Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria | Author profile
• Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands | Author profile
• Andrew McGettrick, University of Strathclyde, Scotland | Author profile
• Avi Mendelson, Microsoft Research, Israel | Author profile
• Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland | Author profile
• Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz, Research Division, SAP AG, Germany | Author profile
• Gerhard Schimpf, Chair, German ACM Chapter, Pforzheim, Germany | Author profile
• Marc Shapiro, INRIA and LIP6, France | Author profile
• Paul Spirakis, University of Patras and the Greek Computer Technologies Institute, Greece | Author profile
• Per Stenström, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | Author profile
• Serdar Tasiran, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey | Author profile
• Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain | Author profile
• Alexander Wolf, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK | Author profile

• Encouraging nominations of ACM European members for the advanced member grades of Senior Member, Distinguished Member, and Fellow;
• Working with ACM SIGs to increase the number of ACM conferences in Europe;
• Increasing the number of ACM chapters and level of chapter activity in Europe; and
• Ensuring the perspective of senior European ACM members is brought to Europe-wide discussions on the future of computing

The ACM Europe Council is encouraging all eligible ACM members in Europe to consider applying for advanced member status within ACM. ACM advanced member grades require five years of continuous ACM membership and varying degrees of experience and accomplishment. For more information on how to nominate someone for these grades, click on these links:

Senior Member nominations

Distinguished Member nominations

Fellow nominations

Follow the links below for a list of current Europeans holding advanced ACM member grades:

European ACM Senior Members

European ACM Distinguished Members

European ACM Fellows

Chapters

There are 44 chapters of the ACM across Europe. Each of these chapters has a series of technical events that will provide both interesting technical content and career networking opportunities:

ACM European Professional/Special Interest Group Chapters

ACM European Student Chapters

Conferences

In addition, there are a number of ACM sponsored conferences and events within Europe. View some of the upcoming events taking place in Europe over the coming months, extracted from the ACM Conference Calendar:

ACM European Conferences

International societies with whom ACM has reciprocal membership agreements

For more information on ACM Europe contact: acmeurope@acm.org