The European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI) intends to serve as a central hub for PhD students and young researchers working in all aspects of AI.
The ESSAI Summer School covers one week of courses in the summer, at different sites around Europe, for both beginning and advanced students, and junior and senior researchers. ESSAI provides introductory and advanced courses in all areas of AI, emphasizing topics that allow students to gain a broad view of AI and understand connections between subdisciplines. ESSAI also offers several social activities for students and researchers alike. One of the tracks of ESSAI consists of advanced tutorials on a specific subject and corresponds to the traditional ACAI school organized by EurAI since 1989.

ESSAI-2025, the 3rd edition of ESSAI, will be held from June 30 to July 4, 2025, in Bratislava (Slovakia).

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 Drotár (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)

Proposals for courses at ESSAI 2024 are invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following:

1. Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (MAS)
2. Causality and Causal Learning (CL)
3. Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of AI (ELS)
4. Foundation Models (FM)
5. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)
6. Learning Theory (LT)
7. Natural Language Processing (NLP)
8. Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NSLR)
9. Planning & Strategic Reasoning (PLAN)
10. Reinforcement Learning (RL)
11. Robotics (ROB)
12. Safe, Explainable and Trustworthy AI (SET)
13. Search & Optimization (SO)
14. Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (ML)
15. Vision (VIS)
16. Human-In-The-Loop AI (HLAI)
17. AI for Social Good (A4SG)
18. Quantum Machine Learning (QML)

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

Visit the website for more information! https://essai2025.eu/

The 1st edition of ESSAI&ACAI was held in 2023 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and was extremely successful, attracting over 500 participants.

• The event pictures are available on this page.
• The video lectures are available on this page.

In 2024, the 2nd edition of ESSAI&ACAI was celebrated in Athens, Greece, and received excellent feedback from the student and lecturer participants. All ESSAI courses are available on the ESSAI-2024 website