The Informatics for All coalition was created to advocate for the inclusion of Informatics as a foundational discipline in schools across Europe. Its purpose is to give due recognition to Informatics as an essential foundational discipline for education in the twenty-first century.
We have an open call to sign the “Rome Declaration“, an appeal to national and international institutions to promote Informatics education in school and for all citizens.
Informatics for All is 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 coalition was established in 2018 by the ACM Europe Council, the CEPIS Education Committee, and Informatics Europe. IFIP joined in 2020.
The initiative builds on the recommendations of the report Informatics Education in Europe: Are We All In The Same Boat? where a thorough study of the state of Informatics education in schools in all European countries has been carried on.
In February 2018 the paper Informatics for All: The Strategy presenting a detailed strategy for the initiative was published. The paper has been distributed to key members of the European Commission who joined members of the Informatics Europe Board and the ACM Europe Council for a constructive discussion panel held in Brussels on March 15.
In February 2019 the Informatics for All coalition hosted a hands-on workshop in Brussels for over 50 representatives from leading European universities and industry where the top challenges for the initiative were identified and discussed. An important output of this workshop is the Action Plan that was developed and this forms the basis of Coalition activities in the coming months.
Following the 2019 successful Workshop, the coalition hosted a second Workshop on 17th March 2020 on Informatics for All and the EU Digital Education Action Plan.
In February 2022, the coalition has released the Informatics Reference Framework for School to ensure a coherent vision and shared terminology related to providing informatics to all pupils in Europe.