Summer School on Artificial Intelligence & Creativity

7 - 13 July 2024
CEUB - Bertinoro Residential Center of the University of Bologna

This Una Europa Summer School brings together graduate and PhD students pursuing diplomas in computer science, engineering, arts, design, law or humanities who are eager to expand their knowledge of AI and its applications in creative domains. It is also intended for academics, and creative professionals, who want to incorporate AI tools and techniques into their work and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in AI and creativity.

Relevant topics include: AI in Literature and Visual Art; AI-Driven Music Composition; AI in Cinema; Computational Creativity; Conditional generation; Copyright and plagiarism ; Deep fake detection; Digital restoration; Emotional AI; Generative Models; Interactive Chatbots; Large Language Models (LLMs); Liability and Accountability; Multi-modal creativity; Privacy, consumer protection; Procedural Content Generation; Representation Learning; Style Transfer.

Blended Activities Schedule:

• June 20, 10-11 a.m. Alberto Naibo: Welcoming. School objectives and practical organization.
• June 20, 11-12:30 p.m. Claudio Sartori: Discriminative vs. Generative Machine Learning
• June 24, 11-12:30 p.m. Andrea Asperti: Generative models for Imaging: an introduction
• June 26, 11-12:30 p.m. Paolo Torroni, Unibo: Introduction to Large Language Models
• June 27, 11-12:30 p.m. Mark T Keane: Explaining eXplainable AI (XAI)

HOW TO APPLY

UnaEuropa Participants: All participants from member universities of the UnaEuropa consortium are invited to contact the local representatives within the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Self-Steering Committee to express their interest and explore funding options.

List of contact persons/office for the applications, for each  university (Erasmus+ Bip partners):
Universidad Complutense de Madrid: cgr@sip.ucm.es
Université Paris 1 - Panthéhon Sorbonne : Arianna.Novaro@univ-paris1.fr; Alberto.Naibo@univ-paris1.fr
University College Dublin: brian.macnamee@ucd.ie; tony.veale@ucd.ie 

Università di Bologna: andrea.asperti@unibo.it

Other Participants: including the other partner universities of Una Europa that are not Erasmus+ BIP partners and all individuals interested in participating in the school are invited to express their interest to Prof. Asperti (andrea.asperti@unibo.it). Admissions will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Registrations are closed, as we have reached the maximum number of possible participants.

REGISTRATION FEES

• BIP STUDENTS AND SPEAKERS*: none;
• STUDENTS/RESEARCHES FROM UNIVERSITIES INVOLVED IN THE CONSORTIUM UnaEuropa : euro 100,00;
• OTHERS: euro 250,00;

The fee includes tuition, course material, lunches, welcome and social dinner (the other dinners are not included), half day excursion, coffee breaks and transportation from/to Forlì train station on July 7/13. The departure time of the bus from Forlì train station will be communicated soon.

 *This activity has been organised under the BIP (Blended Intensive Intensive Program) format of the Erasmus+ programme. If your university has registered as a partner in this particular BIP programme, you will be exempted from paying any fee and you can also apply for financial support for the travel expenses.

ACCOMMODATION

You’ll be lodged at the Course Venue (or hotels nearby the course venue if necessary).
The rate for a single room occupancy in bed and breakfast is €49,00/night.
The rate for a double room occupancy in bed and breakfast is € 39,00/night/person. If you’d like to be lodge in a double room please specify in the field note of the registration form your roommate.

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