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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EL link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><div><div><div><div id="x_x_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Dear AI Professors and senior AI scientists,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>this message presents you a new option to offer AI short courses and summer schools through the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/">https://www.i-aida.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>As many of you organize such courses anyway, this option allows you to catapult the registration number and impact of your courses, because:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=a><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>AIDA offers a seal of excellence to your courses<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-US>AIDA-AUTH use targeted dissemination channels that can catapult the registration number and impact of your course (The attached figure shows tha (t registrations increased by 8x fold after a single course announcement in these channels). <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AIDA has 73 excellent members (Universities, Research Centers and Companies with top AI record), 100 AIDA Lecturers (offering courses and/or supervising AIDA students) and 200 AIDA Students (PhD candidates or Postdoc researchers from AIDA members).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>So far, in its first year (2021), it had a robust educational offer, consisting of many AI short courses, summer schools and semester courses/lecture series, as well as top AI Excellence Lectures on bi-weekly basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Any qualified AI Professors or senior AI scientists worldwide is welcomed to offer an AIDA short or summer school or open up her/his semester courses to AIDA students, no matter if her/his Institution is an AIDA member.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>You can set up your own terms on how to offer such courses (including registration fee policy), in cooperation with the AIDA Educational Planning committee, whose primary aim is to ensure top AIDA course quality. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>You can have both AIDA student and external student registrations in these courses, while offering favorable terms to AIDA students. No AIDA fees are involved in such courses.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Alternatively, you can always ask AIDA technical sponsorship of your courses (with neither dissemination aid nor financial contribution). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Instructions on how to apply to offer such a course and application template can be found in:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/short-courses/">https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/short-courses/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Please cc such an application to Stefano Berretti <a href="mailto:stefano.berretti@unifi.it">stefano.berretti@unifi.it</a>; Pietro Pala <a href="mailto:pietro.pala@unifi.it">pietro.pala@unifi.it</a>; and Ioannis Pitas <a href="mailto:pitas@csd.auth.gr">pitas@csd.auth.gr</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>You are invited to attend the 1-hour free e-lecture and Q & A session on ’How to get involved and get the most out of the AIDA web system’, on Tuesday 15/3/2022, 17:00-18:00 CET. Please book this time slot!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Telco Zoom link:</span></strong><span lang=EN-US><br><a href="https://authgr.zoom.us/j/94866425617">https://authgr.zoom.us/j/94866425617</a><br>Passcode: 867064<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>You will learn how-to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0in' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><span lang=EN-US>become AIDA Lecturer and start offering AIDA courses or contributing to AIDA Educational Resource Repository<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><span lang=EN-US>get involved in AIDA activities<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:0in;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><span lang=EN-US>ask your Institution (University, Research Center or Company with AI record) to become AIDA member.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Anybody coming from AIDA members or external is welcomed to attend and spread the word. AIDA aims high to become an international reference point on AI excellence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Related course offers for the Spring semester 2022 can be found in the AIDA www site:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/short-courses/">https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/short-courses/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/lecture-series-2/">https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/lecture-series-2/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Prof. Ioannis Pitas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>AIDA Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Registration increase by 8x fold after a single course announcement in the AIDA-AUTH dissemination channels<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><img border=0 width=491 height=389 style='width:5.1145in;height:4.052in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D83467.AF6CAB40" alt="Chart, line chart
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