[General] Summer School on Virtual Humans

Summer School on Virtual Humans CLIPE’s 1st training workshop - Summer School on Virtual Humans - is scheduled to take place in Cyprus from the 13th until the 17th of September 2021! The workshop’s aim is to provide an overview of the latest developments in technology and applications in the field of virtual characters. The workshop will be held in Adams Beach Hotel in Ayia Napa but it will be a hybrid event, giving the opportunity to participants to join the workshop online. The first four days of the workshop will be open to researchers that do not participate in the CLIPE project, but still find the workshop of interest to them. You can find the program here (https://www.clipe-itn.eu/news/training-workshop-1%3A-summer-school-on-virtu…) We can allow a limited number of remote participants, researchers specialising in the field of virtual humans. If you are interested to join the workshop online, please send us your name, affiliation and webpage at info(a)clipe-itn.eu <mailto:info@clipe-itn.eu> . Registration to the workshop is free. About CLIPE CLIPE is a Marie Curie Training Network (https://www.clipe-itn.eu/) that addresses the core challenges of designing new techniques to create and control interactive virtual characters, benefiting from opportunities open by the wide availability of emergent technologies in the domains of human digitization and displays, as well as recent progresses of artificial intelligence. CLIPE aspires to train the new generation of researchers in these techniques, looking at the area holistically. The training and research programme is based on a multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral philosophy, bringing together industry and academia experts and focusing on both technical and transversal skills development. The CLIPE network consists of universities/research centers and industrial partners. Universities & Research Centres: University of Cyprus; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya; INRIA; University College London; Trinity College Dublin; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems; KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; Ecole Polytechnique; Silversky3d Ltd. Industrial Partners: Treedy’s ; Amazon; British Broadcasting Corporation, Golaem and Ubisoft. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860768