Informatics Higher Education in Europe: A Data Portal and Case Study

What is it about?

The article offers - by way of case-study research a data-driven perspective over how Informatics education can be studied and improved in a data driven-fashion. The work is based on the data available on the Informatics Europe Higher Education (IEHE) data portal which was created to provide the informatics academic community, policymakers, and industry with a complete and reliable picture of the state of informatics higher education in Europe. As a case study, the article analyzes the role of universities of applied science as opposed to traditional research universities in five representative European countries, and shows that the first ones have an important role in training a qualified workforce for the European informatics field.

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Why is it important?

The demand for people skilled in informatics is increasing constantly; therefore, analyzing data about higher education in informatics and assessing its impact on society is of paramount importance. This article elaborates and discusses the need for coordinated and governed computing education initiatives of the future, a need that shall be steered in a data-driven fashion, with planning and policymaking which are equally data-driven.