<div dir="ltr"><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Dear colleagues,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">We are excited to announce the <b>AI4Europe Winter School and AI & Robotics 2024</b>, which will be held at Örebro University, Sweden, between December 09 and 13, 2024. This event is opened to Ph.D. students. Participation to the school is free (travel and accommodation are not covered) and 30 places are available.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Applicants will be selected based on their background, to ensure they have the required competence to follow the school and ensure diversity.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Location: Örebro University, Sweden,</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Dates: December 9-13, 2024</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Application deadline : October 20, 2024 AoE</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Notification  : November 8, 2024.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><b>Aim of the school</b></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">AI and robotics are too often considered separate fields. Typical graduate student curricula concentrate on AI or on robotics, but rarely on both. This school continues the tradition of the successful series of Lucia Schools on AI and Robotics, which aim at filling this educational gap and providing future researchers with theoretical and methodological knowledge to realize integrated intelligent robots. The courses in this school are focused towards topics that are complementary to the ones usually encountered in graduate programs.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><b>Format and lectures</b></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">During the week, mornings will be filled with lectures from various renowned international speakers on topics relevant to the integration of AI and Robotics, as well as methodological approaches to human-centered AI and Robotics. In particular, lecture topics are:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Fuzzy Logic Control - Alessandro Saffiotti, Örebro University, Sweden</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Task Planning - Jenrik Seipp, Linköping University, Sweden</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Reproducibility in AI and Robotics - Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Knowledge Graphs and Robotics - Ilaria Tiddi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Ethics of AI & Robotics - Juraj Podrouzek, KINIT, Slovakia</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- Usability Studies - Andrea Hrckova, KINIT, Slovakia</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">The afternoons will be filled with labs during which the students will work in groups towards an integrated system, putting in practice the knowledge acquired during the lectures. A unique feature of this school will be the use of the emerging <a href="https://aiod.eu/" title="Click to open https://aiod.eu/">AI-on-Demand platform</a> (AIoD) for the performance of the hands-on exercises.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">In addition, an evening keynote will be given during the week by  Pedro U. Lima, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">For an up-to-date program, visit <a href="https://lucia2024.aass.oru.se/" title="Click to open https://lucia2024.aass.oru.se/">lucia2024.aass.oru.se</a> (currently under construction).</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><b>Application</b></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">To apply, interested students must send:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- A resume</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- A cover letter</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">- A summary of their research topic (max. 1 page)</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Application should be sent to<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jennifer.renoux@oru.se" title="Click to mail jennifer.renoux@oru.se">jennifer.renoux@oru.se</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:asaffio@aass.oru.se" title="Click to mail asaffio@aass.oru.se">asaffio@aass.oru.se</a><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>by October 20, 2024, Anywhere on Earth.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Results of the selection will be announced by November 8, 2024.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><b>Fees</b></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Participation to the school is free, and include lunches and a social dinner on Wednesday.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">Travel, accommodation, and other meals are not covered.</div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><b>Sponsors</b></div><div style="unicode-bidi:plaintext;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Luciole;font-size:17.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">The AI4Europe Winter School on AI & Robotics 2024 is supported by the <a href="https://ai4europe.aiod.eu/">AI4Europe</a> project, whose mission is to manage, develop, and facilitate the AI-on-Demand Platform (AIoD).</div></div>