Informatics for All

The ACM Europe Council, Informatics Europe and the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) have launched an initiative whose main purpose is to give due recognition to Informatics as an essential foundational discipline for education in the twenty-first century.

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Informatics for All Coalition Welcomes European Recommendation on Informatics Education at School

Informatics for All Welcomes European Council Recommendations

The Council of the European Union has adopted a set of recommendations on digital skills and education. The Informatics for All Coalition has endorsed the bold recommendations outlined in the new Council report. The recommendations of the Council reflect a timely and ambitious approach towards the development of digital competences, addressing the need to make education fit for a genuine digital transformation and able to keep pace with the times, while providing the necessary skills and competences that are necessary in this new reality.

Informatics for All Members Emphasize Need for Informatics Education at Digital Education Action Plan Closing Event

Informatics for All steering committee members Enrico Nardelli (President of Informatics Europe) and Austeja Trinkunaite (Secretary General of CEPIS) participated in the 9 September closing event of public consultation on renewing the European Commission's Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP), which seeks to support the use of technology in education and the development of digital competences in European Union countries. They cited the Informatics for All position paper that came out of their March workshop focused on DEAP.
View a recording of the reports from public sessions that were livestreamed.

Informatics for All Releases Their Informatics Reference Framework for School

The Informatics for All coalition recently released their Informatics Reference Framework for School. The new report advances informatics as a fundamental discipline for the 21st century, while also indicating how informatics may become a driver for renewal and innovation of other disciplines. The Framework is designed to help schools develop their informatics curricula and includes a set of core topic areas with their associated practices that all students are expected to be competent in by the end of their upper secondary education (age 18 years). Read the news release.

ACM Europe Education Committee

Chair

Judith Gal-Ezer

Members

Michael Caspersen

Andrew McGettrick

Enrico Nardelli

Informatics for All Committee Members

Chair

Michael Caspersen, Aarhus University, Denmark

Members from ACM Europe Council

Judith Gal-Ezer, Open University of Israel
Andrew McGettrick, University of Strathclyde, UK

Members from Informatics Europe

Enrico Nardelli, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Members from CEPIS

Gerald Futschek, CEPIS Representative
Ulrik Lorck, CEPIS Representative
Austeja Trinkunaite, CEPIS HQ Liaison

ACM HQ Liaison

Pat Ryan