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There is an ongoing discussion about the definition of informatics as a discipline and its foundations in education at an university level. Questions about the goals of studying and an informatics curriculum are formulated from different viewpoints. Women have special interests in changing the structure, culture and contents of the discipline. In May 1997, the project Informatica Feminale — Summer University for Women in Informatics started in the Department of Informatics at the University of Bremen (Germany). This project brings together female students and female professors from all German departments of informatics to work on new educational concepts in informatics. Three aspects are seen as focal points: new definitions of the informatics curriculum from women’s viewpoints, the creation of test-fields for new educational concepts (mainly in the context of summer courses), and further education of female university staff in informatics. In this paper we first give a brief description of the project. Then we outline some starting points of our curricular discussion and we explain the concept of the first Summer Courses for Women in Informatics to be held in Bremen in September 1998.
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Oechtering, V., Vosseberg, K. (2001). Informatica Feminale: A Place for Educational Experiences. In: Rasmussen, L.B., Beardon, C., Munari, S. (eds) Computers and Networks in the Age of Globalization. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 57. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35400-2_3
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