The Winter School aims to highlight groundbreaking innovations in foundation models across a range of subfields, offering participants a deep understanding of how Europe is shaping its own research priorities in this rapidly evolving area. Over four immersive days, participants will engage in cutting-edge lectures delivered by leading experts from academia and industry, explore collaborative […]

Hosted by National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and co-organised by ELLIS Unit Jena, the the MeDiTwin and AI4PEX projects, the ELLIS Winter School 2026 brings together researchers, practitioners, and students to explore how artificial intelligence can advance Earth system and climate science. With growing urgency to understand and mitigate floods, wildfires, droughts, and other extreme events, […]

The scientific program will run from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday, featuring lectures by ELLIS Fellows and prominent researchers from academia and industry. The lectures will cover topics such as large-scale foundation models, self-supervised and multi-modal representation learning, multi-modal learning for robotics, and machine learning for sustainable solutions. The program will also […]