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. 

 

Chair:     Fabrizio Gagliardi, External Research Programs,  Microsoft Research Europe

Members:

• Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Universite Paris-Sud, France
• Wendy Hall, University of Southampton, UK (and ACM President)
• Thomas Hofmann, Google EMEA, Zurich, Switzerland
• Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy
• Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
• Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Andrew McGettrick, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
• Avi Mendelson, Microsoft Research, Israel
• Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz,  Research Division, SAP AG, Germany
• Gerhard Schimpf, Chair, German ACM Chapter, Pforzheim, Germany
• Marc Shapiro, INRIA and LIP6, France
• Paul Spirakis, University of Patras and the Greek Computer Technologies Institute, Greece
• Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
• Alexander Wolf, Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

• 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 more than 100 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