Venue

Black Box – Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
Luxembourg

Transportation

Public transport is free in Luxembourg. The Belval campus is well connected to all transport hubs within Luxembourg, including direct train links from the central train station.

The closest stops to the Belval Campus are:
Train: Belval-Université
Bus:
– Esch-sur-Alzette, Porte des Sciences
– Belval, Porte de France
– Esch-sur-Alzette, Raemerich
– Belval (Université), Gare Routière

Plan your journey easily with , Luxembourg’s official, comprehensive mobility platform provided by the Public Transport Administration.

Dates & Registration

Participation in the Summer School is subject to a two-step application and registration process.

Application

Interested participants are invited to submit an application by 31 May 2026. Applications should be sent by email to as-summerschool@uni.lu and must include:

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Motivation letter, including a short research statement describing your research interests and how they relate to the themes of the summer school.

Applications will be reviewed by the organisers. Selected applicants will receive a confirmation email by 15 June 2026, together with a link to complete registration. Please note the number of seats is limited to 30.

Selected applicants will be required to prepare, print, and bring a poster highlighting their research, which will be showcased on the second day of the Summer School.

Registration

Once participants have been selected, they will be asked to complete the online registration form.

The participation fee is 100 EUR, which covers:

• Coffee breaks
• Lunches (first and second day)
• Social dinner (second day)

Accommodation

A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a nearby hotel at the following special rates:

• 112 EUR per night – single room (including breakfast)
• 129 EUR per night – double room (including breakfast)

Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Practical Information

Embodied Intelligence for Safe Autonomous Systems

The program is organized around three core themes:

1. Enhancing efficiency, sustainability, and safety through trustworthy and explainable AI;
2. Enabling the integration of autonomous systems in complex environments;
3. Advancing data-driven and distributed AI approaches for autonomous systems.

It addresses the inherently physical nature of autonomy across land systems (intelligent transport and infrastructure), air systems (UAVs and aerial mobility), and space systems (robotics and satellites). A central premise of the Summer School is that autonomy is fundamentally embodied: intelligence arises from the closed-loop interaction between perception, actuation, physical dynamics, and environmental constraints.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Summer School, participants will have been exposed to the latest research on autonomous systems and will be able to position their work within the broader ATLAS research framework from a system-level perspective and design high-level architectures of embodied autonomous systems. They will be trained to integrate sensing, perception, decision-making, and actuation within coherent AI-driven autonomous system architectures, and to apply distributed and federated learning approaches in networked and decentralized autonomous systems. Participants will also be able to consider safety constraints and explainability principles into system architectures, formulate cross-domain research concepts spanning Land, Air, and Space, and critically assess simulation-to-real gaps and validation strategies for physical AI systems.

Plan your visit

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Belval Campus is the 91����Ƶ’s main site. Close to Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg’s second largest city, Belval combines research with teaching and urban life with leisure activities. Once home to Luxembourg’s largest steelworks, this site now features research and learning facilities, the University library and learning centre as well as the student accommodations. The campus is located at the centre of an urban district and has excellent connection to public transportation.

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Successful attacks on information systems rarely target technology alone. They also exploit the human element from insecure user behaviour and poorly designed interfaces to unclear or unrealistic security policies. Addressing security effectively therefore requires more than reducing technical vulnerabilities; it demands a clear understanding of user needs, behaviours, and contexts. Technology designers and policy-makers must take these human factors into account to build truly secure systems.

This new conference brings together two well-established events in socio-technical, user-centred privacy and security: European Symposium on Usable Security (EuroUSEC) and International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security (STAST). By combining their strengths, the conference aims to unite researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, engineering, psychology, social sciences, and economics. It provides a forum to present research and to discuss the human-computer interaction challenges that shape security and privacy today.

Conference goal

The goal of our conference is to provide an opportunity to pause and reflect on the epistemological and ethical aspects of computer science. We propose as a theme the concept of undone science: the intriguing yet essential notion that areas of research may remain incomplete, overlooked, or unfunded despite being worthy of exploration—and the exploration into the causes of these situations.

Any discussion of systematic lack of production or dissemination of knowledge is welcome, whether in a specific area or in computer science in general, whether past or present; whether due to limitations of available methodologies, blind spots of dominant paradigms, institutional and industrial biases, lack of social representation, or other factors.

For full details about the conference, visit . Check back here soon for practical information on how to attend.

Plan your visit

The Conference will be hosted at the .

Free public transport

Free transport since 1 March 2020

Public transport (buses, trains, and tram) is free of charge in Luxembourg.

The website of the Luxembourg Public Transport Administration, , makes it easy to plan your journey.

University – Campus Kirchberg can be reached from:

Clervaux is:

• 1 hour by train from Luxembourg City
• 1 hour 30 minutes from Luxembourg Airport (by bus and train)
• 1 hour by car from Luxembourg City
• Train stop: Clervaux (15-minute walk to Hotel Koener from the station)

What to expect

• Engaging talks and panels with top academics and industry leaders.
• Hands-on workshops showcasing emerging technologies.
• Networking opportunities with peers and innovators.

Whether you’re an established researcher or a curious practitioner, you’ll leave inspired and ready to apply new insights to real-world projects.

Key topics

The conference uniquely combines four distinct disciplines:

• Energy, eGovernment, Finance, and Tourism
• Sensors and loT
• Artificial Intelligence
• Blockchain Technology

Call for presentations

We invite submissions of high-quality research abstracts (up to 250 words). This is a unique opportunity to share your work with an international audience and contribute to the advancement of information systems engineering.

Important Dates:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 22 July, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: 10 August, 2025

Please send abstract (max. 250 words) to rawan.akkouch@uni.lu

Preliminary programme

Tuesday 9 September 2025

• 8.00 – 11.00

  Travel with Bus

• 12.00 – 13.00

  Registration

• 14.00

  Welcome lunch and official opening

• 14.30 – 15.00

  Session 1 Keynote

• 15.30 – 17.00

  Networking session

• 19.00 – 23.00

  Dinner

Wednesday 10 September 2025

• 9.00 – 11.00

  Session 2 workshop

• 12.00 – 14.00

  Lunch break

• 13.00 – 16.30

  Session 2 paper presentations

• 17.00 – 18.00

  Coffee break

• 19.00 – 23:00

  Gala dinner

Saturday 13 September 2025

• 9.00 – 12.00

  Activity

• 12.00 – 14.00

  Lunch

• 14.30 – 16.30

  Session 4 workshops

• 17.30 – 21.00

  End