The European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence
6 - 10 July 2026, Vienna, Austria
ESSAI, the largest school of broad AI in Europe, will offer courses in wide areas of Artificial Intelligence and from a wide range of perspectives. Its thematic scope is analogous to major AI conferences like ECAI, IJCAI and AAAI, covering all AI subdisciplines and their interconnections. The courses and tutorials will be given by leading AI researchers and we expect to welcome around 400 students with diverse backgrounds, who can choose courses from parallel tracks in order to deepen their understanding of familiar AI disciplines, dive into new ones, and discover new interdisciplinary research areas combining different AI approaches. The teaching offering of ESSAI 2026 is currently under development and it will be announced in February 2026. If you are interested in teaching at this summer school, please see the Call for Course Proposals.
The educational program of ESSAI 2026 will consist of courses (each comprising four 90-minute lectures) as well as tutorials. Courses will belong to one of the following two categories:
Introductory Courses are intended to introduce an AI research area to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists and to foster a sound understanding of basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop confidence and competence in the topic considered.
Advanced Courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding of current research in an area of AI.
Below you can find the list of courses and tutorials given in the past editions of ESSAI:
