Call for Applications for Travel Grants (Deadline: April 17th, 2026)

4th European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI 2026)
2nd International Summer School on Bilateral AI

6-10 July 2026, Vienna, Austria

https://essai2026.eu


The purpose of travel grants is to support students who have limited or no
access to other funding for supporting their attendance at ESSAI 2026. The
amount of the travel grant awarded to each student will be 525€ (amount
equal to the early registration fee for students).


*** Deadline for submissions: April 17th, 2026 (updated deadline). ***
*** Notification: April 27th, 2026 (updated deadline). ***


Application details can be found at:

https://essai2026.eu/grants.php


*General Information*


ESSAI is the annual summer school on AI held under the auspices of the
European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), and in 2026 it
will encompass the 2nd International Summer School on Bilateral AI. ESSAI
is the largest school of broad AI in Europe, offering courses in all areas
of Artificial Intelligence and from a wide range of perspectives. Its
thematic scope is analogous to major AI conferences like ECAI, IJCAI and
AAAI, covering all AI subdisciplines and their interconnections. ESSAI is a
central meeting place for AI students and young researchers to deepen their
knowledge, broaden their perspectives, discuss current research, and build
connections with other researchers.


*Registration is Open*


Registration fees and dates can be found at:


https://essai2026.eu/registration.php


***Early Registration Deadline: April 30, 2026***

***Register now to secure your spot at ESSAI 2026!***


*Location*


The fourth edition of ESSAI will be held in Vienna, a city where history
and innovation walk side by side. Home to world-renowned universities and
research centers, Vienna has inspired great thinkers for centuries—think of
Erwin Schrödinger, Lise Meitner, Sigmund Freud, Kurt Gödel, Ludwig
Wittgenstein, or the Vienna Circle. Today, Vienna continues to welcome
students, scholars, and curious minds from around the globe. Vienna awaits
you with world-class culture, groundbreaking science, and cozy coffee
houses --- all in a city celebrated for its quality of life.


*Tentative List of Long Courses*


1. AI for Autonomous Robots: Bridging Theory and Practice

2. Specification-Guided Reinforcement Learning

3. Introduction to Constraint Satisfaction

4. Why Is Symbolic Reasoning Computationally Hard?

5. Wikidata: A backbone for Hybrid/Bilateral AI

6. The Art of Compressing LLMs: Pruning, Distillation, and Quantization
Demystified

7. Trustworthy AI

8. Data Driven Approaches in (Multi-objective) Bayesian Optimisation

9. Multi-Perspective Reasoning in Knowledge Representation: An Introduction
to Standpoint Logic

10. Recommender Systems: Past, Present, and Future (Challenges)

11. Logic meets Learning

12. Beyond Breakpoints: AI for Software Fault Localization

13. Foundations of Concept-Based Interpretable Deep Learning

14. Learning Deep Low-dimensional Models from High-Dimensional Data: From
Theory to Practice

15. Decision trees: from efficient prediction to responsible AI

16. Trustworthy Machine Learning from Data to Models

17. Reward and Constraint Learning: Foundations for Human-AI Alignment

18. Recurrent GNNs: The Power of Iteration

19. Knowledge Compilation: Theory, Practice, and Applications

20. AI for Fair and Transparent Decision-Making from Legal and Technical
Perspectives

21. Uncertainty in Machine Learning: From Aleatoric to Epistemic

22. Tractable Circuits: A Common Language for Logic, Probability, and
Neural Models

23. Modern Constraint Programming

24. From In-Context Learning to Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning with Large
Reasoning Models


More details on the program can be found at:


https://essai2026.eu/

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