1 Informatics education: Europe cannot afford to miss the boat Report of the joint Informatics Europe & ACM Europe Working Group on informatics education February 2013 Working group members Informatics Europe: Walter Gander (chair), ETH Zurich, Switzerland Antoine Petit, Inria & ENS Cachan, France Gérard Berry, Collège de France Barbara Demo, University of Turin, Italy Jan Vahrenhold, University of Munster, Germany ACM Europe: Andrew McGettrick, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Roger Boyle, University of Aberystwyth, Wales Michèle Drechsler, INRP, Lyon, France Avi Mendelson, Microsoft, Israel Chris Stephenson, Comp. Sc. Teachers’ Association, USA ACM Europe and Informatics Europe liaison: Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Switzerland Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, ITMO, Russia, and Eiffel Software, USA Final draft for committee approval, 11 February 2013