Dear distinguished AI Professor or Senior Scientist (PhD holder),

the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) aims to become a reference initiative for AI education in Europe and implement mechanisms for inter-university sharing of AI educational assets at PhD-level. As part of the program, AIDA offers a series of courses on Artificial Intelligence and related fields given by distinguished lecturers.

*We invite you to contribute to this initiative for the definition of the AIDA Spring 2024 semester program*.

You can participate in the AIDA program by offering new or opening-up existing courses targeted to AIDA students* or other students worldwide according to the participation terms of your own organization. Short/Very Short course formats (5-16 hours) are typically encouraged, while semester courses, or asynchronous mode web courses will be considered as well. Accepted courses will be listed on AIDA website ( https://www.i-aida.org/) and will be advertised for free with the support of AIDA dissemination channels. Proposals for courses for the AIDA Spring 2024 semester program should be sent to: Prof. Prof. Stefano Berretti stefano.berretti@unifi.it, and Ms. Efi Patmanidou epatman@csd.auth.gr no later than *January 31st, 2024* and will be evaluated by the AIDA Committee by *February 10th, 2024*.

Proposals for AIDA Courses should include (pls, fill in the attached document):

*Course title:*

*Lecturer name & affiliation:*

*Host Institution:*

*Content and organization: *Course details about the content. 1 paragraph

*Level: *(Undergraduate/Postgraduate)

*Course Duration: *Hours

*Course Type: *(Short/Semester/Lecture series/Seasonal School*)*

*Participation terms: **Registration fee policy for external (non-AIDA) students*, e.g., free of charge or fee of ??? Euros. *Special terms for AIDA students*, e.g., discount 50% or free for X number of AIDA students. *Add text for a) non-AIDA student registration and AIDA student registration/enrollment, as in (6) below.*

*Lectures plan: *Days/time

*Proposed schedule: *Start date – End date

*Language: *English/Other

*Modality: *Online/in person

*Notes: *Are there exams? Details on how to successfully complete the course. 1-2 sentences.

*Course Link:*

*AIDA students may be PhD students, post-doc researchers, possibly qualified MSc students or professionals of AIDA Members

Best regards,

Stefano Berretti

AIDA course planning

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Prof. Stefano Berretti, Ph.D.

Media Integration and Communication Center (MICC) &

Department of Information Engineering (DINFO)

University of Florence

via S. Marta 3 - 50139, Florence - ITALY

email: stefano.berretti 'at' unifi.it

phone: +39 055 2758529