****************************************************************************** Call for scholarships to attend the scientific event sponsored by the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) ESSLLI 2016 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ******************************************************************************* The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence offers travel grants, which partially support the registration fees, travel, accommodation and meal expenses, for the participation of students in the 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information--ESSLLI'16. 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 2016; - Have good English skills. The candidates should submit their proposal by May 6, 2016, sending an email to Alessandro Artale . Students should also register as a fee waiver at ESSLLI'16 by filling the registration form. The application should include: - The personal data, the phone number and the email address; - 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; - A letter from a researcher/professor including an assessment of the current status of the candidate (i.e., student/recently graduated); - A budget estimating the fees, travel, accommodation and meal expenses; - The amount of the requested grant (that must be lower than 500 euros and lower than or equal to the estimated budget). The applications will be evaluated by a commission formed by: - The Organizing Committee of ESSLLI'16; - AI*IA secretary (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) Bachelor and master students and, among these, according to the average of their exam grades; 2) recent graduates; 3) PhD students. After the event, the selected students will have to send a scanned copy of the certificate of attendance and of the receipts of their travel, accommodation and meal expenses for which they ask reimbursement, to the AI*IA treasurer Stefano Ferilli together with their IBAN account number. Moreover, they have to send the originals of the receipts by mail to the AI*IA Treasurer as well: Prof. Stefano Ferilli Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Bari Via E. Orabona, 4 70126 Bari – Italy For additional information on this call, please contact Alessandro Artale by sending an email to artale@inf.unibz.it.