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ESSAI 2025 CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS


The 3rd European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence - ESSAI 2025

June 30 to July 4, 2025

Bratislava, Slovakia


https://essai2025.eu/


IMPORTANT DATES:

December 8, 2024: Course preliminary details (mandatory)

December 15, 2024: Full course proposal submission

January 26, 2025: Notification of acceptance or rejection


ESSAI SUMMER SCHOOLS

ESSAI 2025 is the third edition of the annual summer school on AI held unde
r the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (Eur
AI).


ESSAI 2025 will provide an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are o
ffered in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and also from wider scientif
ic, historical, and philosophical perspectives. ESSAI is a central meeting 
place for students and young researchers in Artificial Intelligence to disc
uss current research and share knowledge.


The first edition of  ESSAI was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the second
 one in Athens, Greece. Both editions were very successful and received exc
ellent feedback from the student and lecturer participants. We look forward
 to a third edition of ESSAI, which we believe will be  very successful as 
well.


TOPICS AND FORMAT OF COURSES

ESSAI aims to cover subdisciplines of AI and the interactions between them.
 Proposals for courses at ESSAI 2024 are invited in all areas of Artificial
 Intelligence, including but not limited to the following:

* Autonomous Agents  and Multi-agent Systems (MAS)

* Causality and Causal Learning (CL)

* Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of AI (ELS)

* Foundation Models (FM)

* Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)

* Learning Theory (LT)

* Natural Language Processing (NLP)

* Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NSLR)

* Planning & Strategic Reasoning (PLAN)

* Reinforcement Learning (RL)

* Robotics (ROB)

* Safe, Explainable and Trustworthy AI (SET)

* Search & Optimization (SO)

* Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (ML)

* Vision (VIS)

* Human-In-The-Loop AI  (HLAI)

* AI for Social Good (A4SG)

* Quantum Machine Learning (QML)


Each course will consist of five 90-minute lectures offered daily (Monday-F
riday) in the week the school takes place.


COURSE CATEGORIES

Each proposal should fall under one of the following two categories.


*Introductory Courses*

Introductory courses are intended to introduce a research area of AI to stu
dents, young researchers, and other non-specialists and to foster a sound u
nderstanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enabl
e researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competen
ce in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary ar
ea may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines.


*Advanced Courses*

Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to ac
quire a level of comfort and understanding of current research in an area o
f AI.


While introductory courses will typically focus on one subarea of  AI only,
 advanced courses are encouraged to present a broader perspective on AI, an
d they should be of interest beyond a single specific area.


COURSE PROPOSAL GUIDELINES

To be considered, course proposals should closely adhere to the following g
uidelines.


Courses must be presented by lecturers who submitted the proposal. For cour
ses with more than two lecturers, the role of each lecturer should be clear
ly explained and justified in the proposal.


Course proposals should explicitly state the intended course category. Prop
osals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for exam
ple, as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Propos
als for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail.


Submitted proposals should include all of the following:

a. Contact information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, address, email
, web page

b. General proposal information: Title, category

c. Information about the course content:

* Abstract of up to 150 words

*  Motivation and description (up to two pages)

  *   Tentative outline
  *   Expected level and prerequisites
  *   Appropriate references (e.g., textbooks, monographs, proceedings, sur
veys)
  *   Whether the course will appeal to students outside of the main area o
f the course.

d. Information about the proposer(s):

  *   Short CVs of the proposer(s)
  *   Evidence that the proposer(s) are excellent lecturers with relevant t
eaching experience, particularly in delivering intensive interdisciplinary 
courses.


The course proposals will be reviewed by a Program Committee covering all t
he research areas presented above.


PARTICIPATION

To keep registration fees to a minimum, all ESSAI's instructional and organ
izational work is performed completely voluntarily. However, the registrati
on fees of organizers and instructors will be waived. In addition and where
 appropriate and possible, ESSAI will seek to partially reimburse travel an
d accommodation expenses associated with delivering a course. If lecturers 
can cover their travel and accommodation expenses from other sources, this 
is greatly appreciated.


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

By December 8,  2024: Proposers must submit on Microsoft CMT the name(s) of
 the lecturers(s), the course title, the ESSAI area targeted, the course le
vel, and a short abstract.


By December 15, 2024: The submission must be completed by uploading a PDF w
ith the full course proposal as detailed above.


By January 24, 2025, Proposer(s) will be notified whether their proposal ha
s been accepted or not.


SUBMISSION PORTAL

Please submit your proposals as a single PDF file to

https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FESSAI2025


ESSAI 2025 ORGANIZERS

General Chair

Vida Groznik

University of Ljubljana


Program Chairs

Manolis Koubarakis

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens


Fabrizio Silvestri

Sapienza University of Rome


Local Chair

Peter Drotr

Technical University of Kosice


ESSAI Steering Committee Members

Giuseppe De Giacomo (Chair, EurAI Board representative)

University of Oxford


Brian Logan

University of Aberdeen & Utrecht University


Magdalena Ortiz

Technical University of Vienna
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