This Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) equips students (and early-career/full professionals) with up-to-date knowledge and practical skills to design, deploy, and govern AI responsibly across education, industry, and public services. The 5-day structure blends 2.5 days of expert talks and dialogues with 2.5 days of lectures, guided labs, and hands-on workshops. Concretely, expert-led content spans invited talks and panels on cross-cultural collaboration in AI, ethics and disinformation, AI avatars in education, explainability and AI in healthcare, and university?industry co-creation. The practice-oriented track covers: a training day on secure and responsible AI use, workshop afternoons with a deep dive on ?Generative AI for Automatic Program Discovery,? where participants will see our EASE framework (Effortless Algorithmic Solution Evolution) in action for orchestrated, feedback-driven algorithm design. And a last day focused on modern cybersecurity and AI-for-cybersecurity. The BIP?s overarching objectives are to: (1) align AI education with real-world needs, also thanks to PIONEER-alliance collaborations, (2) foster critical and ethical AI literacy, and (3) develop portable competencies through mini-projects and demonstrations that transfer back to students' and professionals? home institutions and communities.
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