Call for Travel Grants

General Information and Budget

The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) offers grants for the participation of students in the 23rd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA2024). The objective of AIxIA students support is to encourage students interested in subjects related to Artificial Intelligence to become active members of the AIxIA community. All assigned grants cover conference fees (retained by the grant amount), and support travel and accommodation expenses. Each student may obtain a grant up to € 500 (five hundreds euro). Grant recipients are expected to help in the conference organization as student volunteers. 

Requirements

To apply, the candidates should satisfy the following requirements:

  • be enrolled in a Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. program or be recently (at most 1 year) graduated from a Bachelor or Master program;
  • be a member of AIxIA for (the second half of) 2024;
  • have good English skills.

Application

Applications must be sent via this Google Form by October, 10th, 2024. The application must include the following information: 

  • Personal data, phone number, email address and social security number (or Codice Fiscale for Italian students).
  • A scanned copy of the passport or ID card.
  • Status of the candidate (i.e., student/recently graduated).
  • A letter from a researcher or professor including an assessment of the current status.
  • A one-page (at most 500 words) curriculum vitae of the candidate (PDF). Bachelor and Master students must include the average mark. Recently graduated students must include the graduation date.

Evaluation

The applications will be evaluated by the commission formed by Valentina Poggioni (University of Perugia), Riccardo Rasconi (National Research Council of Italy), and Christian Tamantini (National Research Council of Italy). The commission will evaluate the submitted applications and will select the students that will receive grants, on the basis of the following priorities: 

  1. Students (co)-authors of a contribution in the Doctoral Consortium.
  2. Students (co)-authors of a contribution at the conference.
  3. Students (co)-authors of a contribution at the workshops.
  4. Students attending the conference and workshops.

Important: The selected students must confirm their participation in the conference within 3 days after the notification.

Reimbursement

Instructions for getting the reimbursement after the event will be sent to the selected students by email. All grant winners should keep all (original) receipts as well as the certificate of attendance in order to be refunded. The early student registration fee for the Conference and Workshops will be retained by the student grant. Students who intend to attend the Conference are recommended to wait for the grant notification before registering.