1. ACM Europe Report Andrew McGettrick San Francisco, November 2013

2. Education Initiatives Two such initiatives were planned: – The production of a report to advance education in schools throughout Europe – The creation of a high level computing education research conference in Europe – following on from the earlier Informatics Education Europe conferences

3. Schools Report This has been completed It advocates education in digital literacy and informatics; the latter is heavy on programming Both are seen as compulsory for all students, up to university / college entrance level

4. Conference Initiative This was to involve collaboration between Informatics Europe and SIGCSE, with ACM Europe having a watching brief, to consider creating a highly prestigious computing education conference in Europe for Europeans A meeting was due to take place at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science, in Amsterdam – This would be adjacent to the (ninth) annual European Computer Science Summit (ECSS) organized by Informatics Europe and taking place on 7-9 th October 2013 – SIGCSE will be present as well as Informatics Europe (IE) but also others who hold conferences on computing education in Europe – Possible annual conference co-sponsored by SIGCSE and IE

5. Joint Advisory Committee SIGCSE / ACM Europe Michael Caspersen, Denmark mec@cse.au.dk Guido Rossling, Germany guido@tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.deguido@tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Serdar Tasiran, Turkeystasiran@ku.edu.trstasiran@ku.edu.tr Informatics Europe Barbara Demo, University of Turinbarbara@di.unito.it Antoine Petit, Inria Antoine.petit@inria.frAntoine.petit@inria.fr Jan Vahrenhold, University of Munster jan.vahrenhold@uni-muenster.de Other Important Addresses Susan Rodger, Chair of SIGCSErodger@cs.duke.edurodger@cs.duke.edu Fabrizio Gagliardi, Chair of ACM EuropeFabrizio.Gagliardi@hotmail.comFabrizio.Gagliardi@hotmail.com Carlo Ghezzi, Chair of Informatics Europe carlo.ghezzi@polimi.itcarlo.ghezzi@polimi.it

6. Outcome of Meeting The meeting that took place in Amsterdam was less formal than anticipated. These notes are based on informal feedback Michael Caspersen and Fabio Gagliardi (chair of ACM Europe) represented ACM interests Antoine Petit, Barbara Demo and Jan Vahrenhold as well as Carlo Ghezzi attended on behalf of IE. Explored remits, road map for next 2 years, etc Observatory: work to be done on identifying the state of Informatics education in each European country (similar to earlier CSTA activity)? To be ongoing. Agreed to review major computing education conferences in Europe and explore need for a new major conference

7. Informatics Europe Report http://www.informatics- europe.org/images/documents/informatics- education-europe-data-2008-2012.pdf http://www.informatics- europe.org/images/documents/informatics- education-europe-data-2008-2012.pdf This was published on 30 th September 2013 and provides data about informatics education at university level in Europe. Statistics (to be interpreted with some caution): – Roughly 500,000 students enrolled on bachelors degrees in Informatics, and – Roughly 200,000 enrolled in Masters degrees in Informatics