New EU Guidelines to Support Teachers in Leading Europe’s Digital Education
The European Commission has released four new sets of digital education guidelines designed to empower teachers at the forefront of Europe’s digital transformation. These resources provide practical support for educators working to address online disinformation, navigate artificial intelligence (AI), teach informatics effectively, and make informed decisions when selecting digital learning content.
AICA to Co-Host 2025 Olympiads to Boost Digital Talent and Cooperation
The competition, launched in 2000 and involving over 250,000 students to date, is organised by the Ministry of Education and Merit in collaboration with AICA – Associazione Italiana per l’Informatica e il Calcolo Automatico, a long-standing promoter of digital skills in Italy and a member of CEPIS.
Computer Science in Education: By Humans, For Humans: Event Recap
On 13 – 14 May 2025, the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies) hosted a major international symposium in Vienna under the theme “Computer Science in Higher Education.”
Computer Science in Education: By Humans, For Humans – Vienna, 13-14 May
The Austrian Computer Society (OCG), together with CEPIS, will be hosting an international symposium titled “Computer Science in Education: By Humans, for Humans” on May 13–14, 2025.
Informatics Teachers Education Mini-Conference
A miniconference devoted to Informatics Teachers Education, Curricula, and Technology in Teaching Informatics, organised by the CEPIS Expert Group on Informatics Education, in cooperation with the Slovak Society for Computer Science, and the Department of Computer Science of Comenius University was held on May 31, 2024 in Bratislava, as one of the events organized at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Department of Computer Science.
CEPIS Appointed to Commission Expert Group on High-Quality Informatics
As part of the continuous work of CEPIS to build closer ties with the European institutions, CEPIS has been recently appointed by the European Commission to be a member in the new informal Commission expert group for the development of guidelines on high-quality informatics.
Inf4All Welcomes European Recommendation on Informatics Education at School
On 23 November 2023, the Council of the European Union has adopted a set of recommendations on digital skills and education. The Informatics for All Coalition, a consortium formed to promote informatics education across Europe, of which CEPIS is a founding member, has endorsed the bold recommendations outlined in the new Council report.
CEPIS to take part in IT Education 2023 conference in Türkiye
The CEPIS Informatics Education (IE) expert group will hold a mini-conference within this year’s edition of The Education in the Light of Information Technologies Conference and Exhibition (BTIE’23). Organised by the Informatics Association of Türkiye (IAT), it will be held In Ankara on 6 and 7 October 2023. IAT is a member of both CEPIS and the IE expert group.
Join the CEPIS Informatics Education expert group
The CEPIS Informatics Education expert group (formerly Computing in Schools SIN) strives for the recognition of Informatics/Computer Science as a vital subject in school curricula. It recommends that Informatics should be included in compulsory school curricula like other subjects such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and thus provide students with the skills needed to participate in today’s increasingly digital society.
“Teaching informatics for all teachers”mini-conference held in Italy
The CEPIS Informatics Education (IE) expert group held a mini-conference on teaching informatics to teachers on 11 November 2022 in Milan, Italy. The mini-conference was organised within the scope of the two-day Didamatica 2022 conference, which was organised by the Italian ICT Association (AICA).
