<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><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">*Deadline for application : Oct. 31st (extended)*</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">Dear colleagues,</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> </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> </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 31st, 2024 AoE (<b>extended</b>)<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">- Notification  : November 8, 2024.<span> </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> </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> </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 - Jendrik 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/" target="_blank">AI-on-Demand platform</a> (AIoD) for the performance of the hands-on exercises.<span> </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> </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/" target="_blank">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> </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> </span><a href="mailto:jennifer.renoux@oru.se" title="Click to mail jennifer.renoux@oru.se" target="_blank">jennifer.renoux@oru.se</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="mailto:asaffio@aass.oru.se" title="Click to mail asaffio@aass.oru.se" target="_blank">asaffio@aass.oru.se</a><span> </span>by October 20, 2024, Anywhere on Earth.<span> </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> </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> </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/" target="_blank">AI4Europe</a> project, whose mission is to manage, develop, and facilitate the AI-on-Demand Platform (AIoD).</div></div></div>
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