STUDENT GRANTS 

General Information and Budget

The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) offers 4 grants for the participation of students to the 1st AIxIA Lake Como Summer School on Advances in Artificial Intelligence. The objective of the AIxIA student grant is to encourage students interested in subjects related to Artificial Intelligence to become active members of the AIxIA community. All assigned grants cover School fees (retained by the grant amount). Each awarded student will obtain a grant of € 470 (four hundred and seventy euro). 

Requirements

To apply, the candidates should satisfy the following requirements:

• be enrolled in a Master or Ph.D. program or be recently (at most 1 year) graduated from a Bachelor or Master program;

• be a member of AIxIA for (the second half of) 2024 (being a member of AIxIA is - in general - a prerequisite for participating to the School) ;

• have good English skills.

Application

Applications must be sent via email to Antonio Lieto, Roberto Micalizio and Luciano Serafini (alieto@unisa.it, roberto.micalizio@unito.it, serafini@fbk.eu)  by 6th September 2024 (please use the subject “AIxIA School Student Grant”). The application must include the following information:

• Personal data, phone number, email address and social security number (or Codice Fiscale for Italian students).

• A scanned copy of the passport or ID card.

• Status of the candidate (i.e., student/recently graduated). If the status is “student” it is necessary to provide documentation from the Institution in which the student is enrolled. If the status is “recently graduated” the student should supply the certification of the obtained degree with the corresponding dates/marks.

• A one-page (at most 500 words) curriculum vitae of the candidate (PDF). Bachelor and Master students must include the average mark. Recently graduated students must include the graduation mark and the graduation date.

Evaluation

The applications will be evaluated by the Commission formed by Antonio Lieto (University of Salerno), Roberto Micalizio (University of Turin) and Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, FBK). The Commission will evaluate the submitted applications and will select the students that will receive grants on the basis of the following priorities:

1. Quality of the curriculum vitae.

2. Declared impossibility to have other funds to attend the School.

The selected students will have to confirm their participation in the School within 3 business days after the notification.

Reimbursement

Instructions for getting the reimbursement after the event will be sent to the selected students by email. In order to be refunded the certificate of attendance shall be sent within one month after the end of the conference, that is, no later than 27th October  2024.