The Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) has been held annually since 1996. Formed as the second conference sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group for Computing Education (ACM SIGCSE), ITiCSE has been held in or around Europe for most of its history. After an experimental conference in South America in 2016 that ultimately resulted in the creation of the ACM Global Computing Education Conference, the SIGCSE Board committed to holding ITiCSE in Europe indefinitely. SIGCSE partnered with ACM Europe Council and Informatics Europe (IE) in 2018 to raise the conference profile in the European informatics education community, agreeing to form a joint steering committee for the conference. Much more about ITiCSE governance is found on the governance page.
During its history, ITiCSE has had an impact both within and beyond Europe. Working groups and conference-sponsored excursions were developed at ITiCSE, and their popularity has resulted in other SIGCSE conferences adopting similar events. The desire to host a conference like ITiCSE in other locations around the globe inspired the creation of the fourth SIGCSE conference, the ACM Global Computing Education Conference.
Since 2019, a doctoral consortium (DC) has been offered at the conference. Originally a pilot supported by the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance, the DC proved popular in the community. In 2021, the SIGCSE Board approved the indefinite co-location of a DC at ITiCSE, with support provided jointly by SIGCSE and ACM Europe Council. While the DC was held virtually in 2020 and 2021 due to the global pandemic, the DC is back in person since 2022.
Below is a list of all ITiCSE conferences and the best paper award winners. The ITiCSE Best Paper Award was installed in 2014; since 2018, a prize of 1,000 € sponsored by ACM Europe Council has accompanied the award.
See also the website with historic information about all SIGCSE conferences (SIGCSE TS, ITiCSE, ICER, CompEd and more).
| List of conferences | Best paper award winners |
|---|---|
| 29. ITiCSE 2024: Milan, Italy | TBD |
| 28. ITiCSE 2023: Turku, Finland | TBD |
| 27. ITiCSE 2022: Dublin, Ireland | Briana Bettin, Linda Ott and Julia Hiebel |
| 26. ITiCSE 2021: Paderborn, Germany | Emily Winter, Lisa Thomas and Lynne Blair |
| 25. ITiCSE 2020: Trondheim, Norway | Kirsten Mork, John Wilcox and Zoë Wood |
| 24. ITiCSE 2019: Aberdeen, Scotland | Quintin Cutts, Matthew Barr, Mireilla Bikanga Ada, Peter Donaldson, Steve Draper, Jack Parkinson, Jeremy Singer and Lovisa Sundin |
| 23. ITiCSE 2018: Larnaca, Cyprus | Ali Erkan |
| 22. ITiCSE 2017: Bologna, Italy | Allison Scott, Alexis Martin, Frieda McAlear and Sonia Koshy |
| 21. ITiCSE 2016: Arequipa, Peru | Suzanne Dazo, Nicholas Stepanek, Robert Fulkerson and Brian Dorn |
| 20. ITiCSE 2015: Vilnius, Lithuania | David Insa and Josep Silva |
| 19. ITiCSE 2014: Uppsalsa, Sweden | Christopher Watson and Frederick W.B. Li |
| 18. ITiCSE 2013: Canterbury, England | – |
| 17. ITiCSE 2012: Haifa, Israel | – |
| 16. ITiCSE 2011: Darmstadt, Germany | – |
| 15. ITiCSE 2010: Ankara, Turkey | – |
| 14. ITiCSE 2009: Paris, France | – |
| 13. ITiCSE 2008: Madrid, Spain | – |
| 12. ITiCSE 2007: Dundee, Scotland | – |
| 11. ITiCSE 2006: Bologna, Italy | – |
| 10. ITiCSE 2005: Lisbon, Portugal | – |
| 9. ITiCSE 2004: Leeds, England | – |
| 8. ITiCSE 2003: Thessaloniki, Greece | – |
| 7. ITiCSE 2002: Aarhus Denmark | – |
| 6. ITiCSE 2001: Canterbury, England | – |
| 5. ITiCSE 2000: Helsinki, Finland | – |
| 4. ITiCSE 1999: Krakow, Poland | – |
| 3. ITiCSE 1998: Dublin, Ireland | – |
| 2. ITiCSE 1997: Uppsala, Sweden | – |
| 1. ITiCSE 1996: Barcelona, Spain | – |