 The Ada Awards
The 2015 European Ada Awards are organised
by the Digital Leadership Institute in partnership
with the Council of European Professional
Informatics Societies (CEPIS), DIGITALEUROPE,
the European Centre for Women and Technology
(ECWT) and European SchoolNET.
The Ada Awards were first
announced at the Digital
Agenda Assembly in June
of 2013 as a pledge to
the Grand Coalition for
Digital Skills and Jobs in
Europe, and are part of
the e-Skills for Jobs
Campaign 2015. The Awards aim to increase the
number of digitally-skilled girls and women, and
help close the ICT skills gap in Europe by
recognising girls and women who have
distinguished themselves in digital studies and
careers, and organisations that help to increase
the participation of girls and women in the digital
sector. The Ada Awards recognise deserving
candidates in three categories:
• Digital Girl of the Year
• Digital Woman of the Year
• Digital Impact Organisation of the Year
Patronage
The inaugural Ada
Awards enjoyed
European patronage by
Ms. Neelie Kroes, Vice
President of the European
Commission responsible
for the Digital Agenda,
and global
patronage from the Dr.
Hamadoun Touré, Secretary
General of the United Nations
International Telecoms Union.
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
A message from
NEELIE...
“Tomorrow's world will be
driven by digital
technology,
and having digital skills will
open a goldmine of
opportunities.
I want women to be in the
goldmine. That is why I am
so happy to congratulate
these talented women and
girls who have achieved
great things in ICT. I hope
they go on to inspire more women to
explore the digital sector.”
Neelie Kroes
Former European Commission Vice
President responsible for the Digital
Agenda for Europe and inaugural patron
of the European Ada Awards
2015 Milestones
Nominations Open: 23 April 2015
Deadline for Nominations: 23 October 2015
Finalist Announcement: 10 November 2015
Award Ceremony: 11 December 2015
Conditions & Nomination Form:
AdaAwards.com
Ada Lovelace
The Awards are affectionately known
as the “Adas” in honour of Ada
Lovelace, the first computer
programmer and author of the
algorithm for Babagge's mechanical
computer.
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GIRL Finalists
2014 Digital Woman of the Year
2014 Digital Girl of the Year
WOMAN Finalists
Awarded to a woman, 18 years of age or older, who
distinguishes herself in a digitally-driven or digitallyenabled area of study or work.
*Esther Roure Vila, Cisco, from Spain:
From a young age, Esther was leaning towards
technology. There was no specific role model that
inspired her. It is actually this lack of female role
models that drives her today to be a role model
herself for people currently working or studying.
That also drives her petition to the entertainment
industry. Among many achievements, Esther
has launched "WISE EMEA" - ‘Women in
Science and Engineering’ is a Cisco employee
recourse group which includes 200 members across all
countries in EMEA; and WIN, ‘Women in Networking,’ - a
group of female technical support engineers that aims to
attract, build and retain strong female technical support
engineers, which includes than 100 female engineers.
Martine Tempels, Telenet, from Belgium:
Initially Martine studied philosophy because she
wanted to learn about people and life. Afterwards
she did a degree in business administration,
where she learned about the technical knowledge
on the job and discovered that she is more a
“techie” than a philosopher. However, according
to Martine, it is the combination of her technical
insight and philosophical approach that has
helped her a lot to become who she is. Among
many other accomplishments, Martine is Member
of Executive Committee of BEL20 Company
Telenet, Senior Vice president of Telenet For Business, with an
annual 350Mio turnover, and responsibility for 300 employees.
She launched CoderDojo Belgium with 25 clubs in Belgium for
children from the age of 7, where about 900 children attend
coding workshops every month.
Cathrin Stöver, DANTE, from Spain:
Among may global accomplishments, Cathrin is
project manager of the DEVCO funded
AfricaConnect project which builds the first ever
telecommunications infrastructure crossing
borders in the African continent, and she plays a
leading role in the GÉANT project, a collaboration
between 41 European partners. GÉANT plays a
crucial part in the European Commission’s
Excellent Science: e-infrastructures program with
a vital role to ensure Horizon 2020 project participants are
able to collaborate, share and access data, discuss and learn
together, and test their innovations across the network
unimpeded.
Awarded to girls by age category who demonstrate,
promote and/or actually increase
• digital skills among girls and women;
• participation of girls and women in digital studies and
careers; and/or
• use of digital skills and know-how for the benefit of
society.
*Manon from Belgium:
Manon is eleven years old and started coding
with Scratch at a young age. She now actively
coaches kids and especially girls to learn to
code and be interested in technology by using
Arduino. For two years, she has been promoting
Coderdojo Belgium to reach more kids (and
girls) to become interested in technology and
STEM education. Her dream is to get more girls
interested in technology and that more
technology be taught at primary and secondary school.
*Lauren from Ireland:
9-year-old Lauren developed a site that
was coded by a kid for kids. She
mentors at Coderdojo in Ireland teaching
kids Scratch, HTML, CSS, etc., and is
also part of a group called Code for
Ireland who meet and develop apps for
community challenges and problems to
assist government.
Anne from England:
Anne is nine years old and attends a
weekly coding club where she writes
programs in Scratch. She helps the
other girls at the club if they get stuck.
Her participation in the club has
inspired other girls in her class at
school to try programming. At the
Devoxx4Kids event in London this summer, Anne also showed
that girls could program robots. Anne has lots of plans and
wants to take part in a hackathon for robot fashion (aimed at
adults) in 2015.
Noa from Belgium:
11-year-old Noa spent a year on a
mini project for school called "social
media for kids". She's greatly
interested in social media and found
that too little information was available
about social media for children. She
hopes to help children to explore social media in a fun and safe
way.
*Winners
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
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WOMAN Finalists
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship and in-kind support for the Ada
Awards is sought to address:
• Award-winner Prizes & Trophies
• Internship Hosting & Study Opportunities for
Award-winners
• Study Bursary for Award-winners
• Award-winner Award Ceremony Travel &
Accommodations
• Award Promotion, Outreach Activities &
Operational Support
Promotional Consideration:
Promotional and collaboration consideration for
event sponsorship extends to:
• Award Jury Membership
• Award Promotional Materials
• Award Communications, Press & Media
• Online & Social Media Channels, including:
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http://www.digitalwomanaward.com
http://www.digitalgirlaward.com
http://www.digitalimpactaward.com
http://www.twitter.com/euwomen
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http://www.facebook.com/adaawards
http://www.facebook.com/digitalgirlaward
http://www.facebook.com/digitalwomanaward
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Sponsorship Levels:
• Platinum: €10.000+*
• Gold: €8.000+
• Silver: €5.000+
• Bronze: €1.500+
*Exclusive Sector Partner
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2014 Digital Woman of the Year
Valentina Dagiene, BEBRAS Founder & PhD
Professor in Physical Sciences (Informatics),
from Lithuania:
Valentina has founded many initiatives for bringing
digital technologies to children, including BEBRAS,
an online platform to teach technology to kids that
has reached 40 countries around the world and
more than 5 million children. She initiated bringing
Lithuanians to the international Olympiad in
Informatics in 1992. In the early days, Valentina
organised Olympiads in Informatics for school pupils in Lithuania,
and then she established the Baltic Olympiads in Informatics in
1996. She is founder of two international journals, author of over
200 scientific publications and of 60 textbooks on Informatics &
Education of Informatics.
IMPACT Finalists
2014 Digital Impact Organisation of the Year
Awarded to an organisation fundamentally
impacting the eco-system to increase:
• the number of girls and women studying and working
in ICT and digital sectors,
• digital skills among girls and women; and
• the number of women studying, working and leading
in ICT and digital sectors.
*STEMettes, United Kingdom:
The Stemettes aim to inspire the
next generation of females into
Science, Technology, Engineering
and Maths (STEM) fields by
showing them the amazing women already in STEM via a series of
panel events, hackathons, exhibitions, and mentoring schemes.
VHTO, The Netherlands:
VHTO, the Dutch national expert organisation
on girls/women and science/technology,
makes an effort in many different ways to
increase the involvement of women and girls in
science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM).
*Winner
Thank you to our 2014 Partners & Sponsors!