The winner of the first edition of the Minerva Informatics Equality Award is the Computer Science Department at University College London (UCL), UK, for its comprehensive gender policy, the diversity of initiatives put in place as well as the strong evidence of positive impact.

The winner of the Informatics Europe 2016 Best Practices in Education Award is the ALaDDIn project, proposed by Carlo Bellettini, Violetta Lonati, Dario Malchiodi, Mattia Monga, Anna Morpurgo and Massimo Santini, from the ALaDDIn working group at the Computer Science Department, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.

The objective of IPIN (Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation Conference) is to measure the performance of indoor localisation systems designed for offices, hospitals or large public buildings. The 2016 edition  was held in Madrid from 4-7 Ocotober and attracted 25 teams. Participants tested their localisation solutions, exploiting the complex and multi-floor structure of the  University of Alcalà de Henares.