<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear Al
Professors, Postdocs or Senior AI researchers,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">the
International AI Doctoral Academy (<a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">AIDA</a>) offers a series of courses on Artificial
Intelligence and related fields given by distinguished lecturers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AIDA had
an excellent AI course offer in the past 4 years: </span></p>
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<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">55
short courses and 44 semester courses with more than
3500 registrants</span></li>
<li class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">14
AIDA Summer Schools, 700 registrants.</span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This semester
(Fall 2025/Winter 2026) AIDA is excited to once again present an exciting
selection of short, semester courses, web-lecture series or seasonal
school designed to deepen registrant knowledge and skills.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We invite
you to contribute to this initiative for the definition of
the AIDA Fall semester program (from Sept 1st, 2025, to January 31st,
2026) by offering courses and becoming part of this vibrant learning
community</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">You can
participate in the AIDA program by offering new or opening-up
existing courses targeted to AIDA students<sup>*</sup> or
other students worldwide according to the participation terms of your own
organization. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Short/Very Short course formats
(5-16 hours) are typically encouraged, while semester courses, or
asynchronous mode web courses or seasonal schools will be considered
as well. See the related AIDA pages:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/summer-school/" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/summer-school/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Accepted courses or
seasonal schools will be listed on AIDA website (<a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">https://www.i-aida.org/</a>) and
will be advertised for free with the support of AIDA dissemination
channels. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proposals
for courses for the AIDA Fall semester program should
be sent to: Prof. Stefano Berretti <a href="mailto:stefano.berretti@unifi.it" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">stefano.berretti@unifi.it</a>, and
Ms. Efi Patmanidou <a href="mailto:epatman@csd.auth.gr" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">epatman@csd.auth.gr</a> and will be evaluated
by the AIDA Committee.</span></p>
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Please find the details of what should be included in
the course proposals in the AIDA Course Application
Form <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/phd-studies/short-courses/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(70,120,134)">here</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Any qualified
Al Professor/Postdoc or Senior AI researcher (PhD holder) can apply to offer
a course or seasonal school, no matter if she/he belongs to a host
University that is an AIDA member or not. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The course lecturer(s)
and/or their host University/Institution define course fees and
other course-related issues.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">* AIDA Students
(PhD students, Postdoc researchers, possibly qualified MSc students
of AIDA Members).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Best regards</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">S. Berretti,
Ioannis Pitas</span></p></div>