Call for Scholarships to Attend AI*IA 2015

The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence offers grants for the participation of students in the 14th Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2015).
Grants cover conference fees and possibly partially support travel and accommodation, on the basis of the number of requests.
All candidates should

  • be enrolled in a Bachelor, Master or PhD program or be recently graduated from a Bachelor/Master program;
  • be a member of AI*IA for 2015;
  • have good English skills.

The candidates should send the travel grant application to Fabrizio Riguzzi (by email fabrizio.riguzzi@unife.it) by the 15th of July 2015.

The application should include:

  1. personal data, phone number, email address and social security number (or Codice Fiscale for Italian students);
  2. a scanned copy of the passport or ID card;
  3. a one-page (at most 500 words) curriculum vitae of the candidate. Bachelor/Master students should include the average mark; recently graduated students should include the graduation mark;
  4. a budget estimating registration, travel, accommodation and meal expenses;
  5. a letter from a researcher/professor including an assessment of the current status;
  6. status of the candidate (i.e., student/recently graduated);

The applications will be evaluated by the commission formed by

  • Evelina Lamma (organizing committee of the event)
  • Marco Gavanelli (organizing committee of the event)
  • Fabrizio Riguzzi (organizing committee of the event and AI*IA board of directors)

The commission will evaluate the submitted applications, and will select the students that will receive the grant on the basis of the following priorities

  1. Ph.D. students participating in the Doctoral Consortium (please note that the Call for DC Papers is still open: http://aixia2015.unife.it/events/doctoral-consortium/)
  2. students with a paper accepted at the AI*IA conference, or any of the AI*IA Workshops
  3. other Ph.D. students
  4. bachelor and master students and, among these, according to the average of their exam grades
  5. recent graduates

The selected students will have to confirm their participation in the symposium in 2 days.
After the event, the selected students will have to send a scanned copy of the certificate of attendance to the AI*IA  treasurer Sara Manzoni (by email manzoni@disco.unimib.it) together with their IBAN account number.
Moreover, they have to send the originals of the receipts by mail to the AI*IA accountant

Dott. Marco Ori
Studio associato Mancaruso
Via S. Mamolo 29
CAP 40136
Bologna