European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence &
Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence

The European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI) is a direct product of European AI research being increasingly coordinated and scaled up across projects, research organisations and countries. ESSAI’s immediate predecessors are the Advanced Course on AI (ACAI), organised since 1985 under the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), and the TAILOR Summer School on Trustworthy AI organised since 2021 by the European ICT-48 Network of Excellence on Trustworthy AI through Integrating Learning, Optimisation and Reasoning. In In 2022 these two schools were for the first time co-located in Barcelona with two parallel tracks as well as joint events. In 2023 EurAI and TAILOR continued their collaboration to deliver a significantly larger one-week event in Ljubljana with over 30 courses and tutorials presented in seven parallel tracks.

This year, ESSAI & ACAI-2024 is again expanded into a two-week event taking place in the premises of the National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos". The local organization of ESSAI & ACAI 2024 is led by the Artificial Intelligence Team of the Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in collaboration with the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society.

ACAI-2024 will offer 13 invited tutorials (90min each) delivered by international experts, while ESSAI-2024, together with the fourth TAILOR Summer School, will offer 30 courses (5x90min each) on a range of current topics of AI, solicited through an open call for course proposals and selected by an international program committee.