EDUCATION / SUMMER SCHOOLS

The Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School (AthNLP) will take place from 2 to 8 September 2025 the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens, Greece. The summer school is organised jointly by NCSR Demokritos,  ATHENA RC , Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of Informatics), Heriot-Watt University and ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems). AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS.

The Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School (AthNLP) took place from 4 to 10 September 2025 the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens, Greece. The summer school is organised jointly by NCSR Demokritos, RC “Athena” (through Archimedes and ILSP), Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of Informatics), Heriot-Watt University and University of Manchester. AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS.

The Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School (AthNLP) took place from 19 to 25 September 2024 the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens, Greece. The summer school was organised jointly by NCSR Demokritos, RC “Athena” (through Archimedes and ILSP), Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of Informatics), and Heriot-Watt University. AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS.

The Summer School on Artificial Intelligence 2024 took place on 1-3 July 2024, organised by the “Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies” (HIAS) in NCSR Demokritos. Founded by Greek scientists of the diaspora, this event was a unique meeting ground for Greek experts in artificial intelligence from universities and research centers of the diaspora and Greece.
During the three days of its implementation, approximately 450 undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students, as well as researchers, attended 22 lectures on artificial intelligence. The speakers included, among others, Greek scientists from important educational institutions around the world: Harvard, Columbia, ETH Zurich, University of Texas at Austin, University of Toronto, Rice University, University of Wisconsin and University of Pennsylvania.

The HIAS Universal AI Course 2023 was organised by the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies (HIAS), in the framework of the HIAS Summer Events 2023. The 3-day course was held during 2-5 July 2023, on the premises of NCSR Demokritos.
The purpose of the AI course was to familiarize students from diverse backgrounds, including science, engineering, law, medicine, social sciences, humanities, and the arts, with the latest developments in AI and its potential to revolutionize various fields.
During those 3 days, a diverse group of experts shared their insights and discussed the current trends in AI, the challenges of AI application development, as well as the opportunities and benefits that arise from integrating AI into various domains.

The IS-ENES3 Summer School on Data Science for Climate Modelling took place from 1 to 7 September 2022 on the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens, Greece. The Summer School was organised by the IS-ENES3 consortium and aims to increase expertise and skills on theoretical and practical concepts of Data Science, building upon and mainly targeting how to accelerate scientific discovery from data.

The 1st Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School took place from 18 to 25 September 2019 on campus of NCSR “Demokritos” in Athens, Greece. The summer school was organised jointly by NCSR Demokritos, RC “Athena” (through Archimedes and ILSP), Athens University of Economics and Business (Department of Informatics), and Heriot-Watt University. AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS.

The Wireless Communications Laboratory (WiCom Lab) of IIT organised the European School of Antennas 2019 (ESoA2019). The five day-long Postgraduate School took place from 10 to 14 June 2019 at the School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Loughborough, UK and was organised in collaboration with the Wireless Communications Research Group (WiCR) of the University of Loughborough. The School is a European geographically-distributed postgraduate school, supported by the European Association of Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), aiming to enhance European training and research in antennas and related applications.

The Integrated Systems Laboratory of IIT, in collaboration with the Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning (Arsakeia – Tositseia Schools) hosted on a yearly basis for 5 years and until 2018 the SMARTcamp.  This Summer Workshop wass in the field of Information Technology and took place in two individual weekly sections at the premises of Arsakeia Schools in Psychico. The first section targeted Robotics whilst the second dealt with Digital Arts and Projection Mapping techniques.

The International Research-centered Summer School (IRSS) has an innovative format as it is focused on research, whereby University students form small groups and work on an actual research project for a whole month. This not only teaches them valuable research skills and fosters future collaborations and networking, but also has produced a number of research papers which were published in leading international conferences and journals. In addition, the projects of the school cover a number of research topics which are of joint interest to both IIT and collaborating Universities.
During the School there were a number of lectures given by our collaborators on various cutting edge topics of research to broaden the students’ knowledge on a variety of topics.