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style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Call
for Fall 2026 International AI Doctoral Academy
(AIDA) AI course or seasonal school proposals</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear
Al Professors, Postdocs or Senior AI researchers,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">the
International AI Doctoral Academy (<a
href="https://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#467886">AIDA</span></a>)
offers a series of courses on Artificial
Intelligence and related fields delivered by
distinguished AI lecturers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">AIDA had
an excellent AI course offer in the past 4 years:
106 courses and 14 seasonal schools with more than
4200 registrants.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This
semester (Fall 2026), AIDA intends once again to
offer an exciting selection of short,
semester courses and web-lecture series designed to
deepen AI knowledge and skills.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We
invite you to contribute to the AIDA Fall 2026
semester course program (from 1<sup>st</sup>
September 2026, to January 31<sup>st</sup> 2027)
by offering AIDA courses and becoming part of this
vibrant AI teaching community</span></b><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The
benefits for offering an AIDA course can be found
in: <a
href="https://www.i-aida.org/why-aida-courses/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:#467886">https://www.i-aida.org/why-aida-courses/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You
can participate in the AIDA course program by
offering new or repeating existing courses targeted
to any student/scientist/engineer worldwide.
Short/Very Short course formats (5-16 hours) are
typically encouraged, while semester courses, or
asynchronous mode web courses will be considered as
well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">See
the related AIDA pages:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a
href="https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/short-courses/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#467886">https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/short-courses/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a
href="https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/lecture-series-2/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:#467886">https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/lecture-series-2/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a
href="https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/summer-school/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#467886">https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/summer-school/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Any
qualified Al Professor/Postdoc or Senior AI
researcher (PhD holder) can apply to offer an
AIDA course or seasonal school.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The course lecturer(s)
and/or their host University/Institution
define course fees and other course-related issues.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Course/school
proposals using the <a
href="https://www.i-aida.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/AIDA-COURSE-APPLICATION-FORM-v4.0.docx"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:#467886">AIDA course/school
proposal form</span></a> should be sent to:
Prof. Stefano Berretti <a
href="mailto:stefano.berretti@unifi.it"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:#467886">stefano.berretti@unifi.it</span></a>,
and to the AIDA secretariat <a
href="mailto:secretariat@i-aida.org"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="color:#467886">secretariat@i-aida.org</span></a>.
They will be evaluated by the AIDA Educational
Planning Committee.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Accepted courses will
be listed on AIDA website (<a
href="https://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="color:#467886">https://www.i-aida.org/</span></a>) and
will be promoted through the AIDA/AUTH dissemination
channels reaching 50K+ AI professionals and students
worldwide.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best
regards</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">S.
Berretti, I. Pitas</span><span lang="EL"
style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Post
scriptum: To stay current on AIDA, AI, or CV/ML
matters, you may want to register in the CVML email
list, following instructions in: <a
href="https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml"
moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://lists.auth.gr/sympa/info/cvml</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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