The CEPIS Informatics Education group strives for the recognition of Informatics as a vital subject in school curricula. It recommends that Informatics be included in 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.
CEPIS is a founding member of Informatics for All, a coalition that aims at getting academia, industry, government and society together to influence education policy in Europe towards the full recognition and establishment of Informatics as a foundational discipline in schools. The other founding members are ACM Europe Council and Informatics Europe. IFIP joined the Coalition in 2020.
Members of Informatics Education expert group participated crucially in the creation of the Informatics Reference Framework for Schools, edited by the Informatics for All Coalition. The future focus of the Coalition will be on Informatics teachers education.
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.
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).
The Computing in Schools (CIS) SIN and the Slovak Society for Computer Science (SSCS) held the event ‘Strategies for Informatics Teachers Education’ on 21 June in Bratislava. It was organised by CEPIS and SSCS in cooperation with the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava.
On 20 February 2019, CEPIS joined ACM Europe and Informatics Europe (IE) in Brussels to host a gathering of stakeholders invested in the promotion of computer science across Europe. Representatives from both private and public sectors were present, including from the European Commission, to brainstorm key challenges and gather the ideas into a concrete action plan.
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Europe Council (ACM) and Informatics Europe have co-developed a new strategy, titled ‘Informatics for All: The Strategy’. The strategy offers a comprehensive plan to establish informatics as a fundamental subject for students in Europe at all educational levels. The strategy was presented at a panel discussion with leading informatics educators, …
The CEPIS Informatics Education expert group 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.
The group meets several times a year, either online, in hybrid (using Zoom) format, or face-to-face. Currently there are eight countries participating in the expert group. Members have backgrounds in Informatics, education and technology.
You can find more information about the group and its priorities and activities in this document.
For the moment, the invitation is open only to CEPIS members.
For more information, contact Prof. Dr. Gerald Futschek, the Chair of the Informatics Education expert group at gerald.futschek@tuwien.ac.at or Tom Scott-Redford (CEPIS Secretariat) at tom.scott-redford@cepis.org.
In 2017, the Slovak Society for Computer Science (SSCS) organised a mini-conference on “Computing in Schools – Past, Present, Future”. The conference focused on issues such as the state of computing in schools in Slovakia and initiatives in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Bulgaria to introduce or improve computing in schools.
Download the conference presentations (.zip file).
In 2016, CEPIS and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) co-organised a mini-conference on “Computational Thinking & Coding at Schools”. The conference focused on issues such as a strategy for introducing computational thinking in schools, ways to assess computational thinking skills, the benefits of learning programming for all, computational thinking in primary and secondary schools and informatics curriculum in British schools, amongst others.
Download the conference presentations (.zip file).
