Please read this information before applying to the Summer School.
About the event
Join us for the Joint Summer School on Resilience and Regulation, arranged by the WASP Research Arenas Robotics, Public Safety, Media & Language, and Operational Data, as well as WASP-HS.
This year’s theme—Resilience and Regulation—centers on building safe and robust AI-driven systems while addressing the legal and regulatory frameworks shaping AI and autonomy. The summer school welcomes PhD students from various disciplines, fostering interdisciplinary discussions on the challenges and opportunities in developing responsible and resilient autonomous technologies.
The program will feature a mix of lectures, hands-on technical sessions, workshops and student presentations, with embedded discussions on regulatory and legal aspects across all tracks. Topics included in the tracks will be shared shortly. Beyond the academic experience, the Summer School offers engaging social activities and a conference dinner.
This Summer School is a unique opportunity to explore your research at the intersection of technology, regulation and resilience, while connecting with peers from WASP and WASP-HS.
Target Groups
The main target group from WASP Graduate School is Class 2024, however, students from other classes are more than welcome to attend.
All WASP-HS graduate students are expected to attend.
There is a limited number of seats so please register as soon as possible. There will be a waiting list in case of high demand.
Accommodation
During this week, Norrköping is hosting an SM-week so there is a high demand for accommodation during this period. We strongly recommend booking your accommodation provided that.
Accommodation WASP-HS students
WASP-HS have booked rooms at Scandic Strömmen for their students. Visit hotel website.
Accomodation WASP students
You are responsible to book you own hotel accommodation but due to the high demand of hotel rooms during this week there are rooms reserved by WASP at Hotel Nordic which you can book at your own expense. You will need to fill in your credit card when you book the room. The rooms are available until May 25th but please note that we only have a limited amount of rooms so the rooms might be fully booked before that date.
Visit this website to book your room. Fill in booking code “TRAVEL”.
- Single room (for 1 person): 1010 SEK/night including breakfast and VAT
- Double room (for 2 persons): 1400 SEK/night including breakfast and VAT
If you don’t get a room in Norrköping, there is a possibility to stay in Linköping and commute to Norrköping (approximately 30 minutes by train or bus).
Program
TBD
Participant information
The Summer School is divided into three tracks: WARA Media and Language, WARA Public Safety and WARA Robotics.
Tracks
WASP students can choose any track, as long as they meet the requirements needed for the track.
WASP-HS students can choose any track.
Read more about requirements further down on this page.
WARA Media and Language
The WASP Research Arena for Media and Language (WARA M&L) builds a multidisciplinary ecosystem that bridges scientific fields and industrial sectors.
The WARA Media and Language (M&L) track focuses on generative AI models of human communicative behaviour, such as text, speech audio, and 3D motion, and how these can be combined to obtain a communicating avatar. The track has two parts: an online pre-assignment (1.5 ECTS) and the on-site work (1.5 ECTS): In the pre-assignment, students learn how synthesis differs from classification and regression in machine learning and are introduced to technologies such as language modelling, speech synthesis, etc. They also fine-tune a flow-matching based-speech synthesiser on their own voice. The subsequent on-site assignment in Norrköping comprises workshops on AI and regulation, along with group work where students use generative AI tools and technologies to create a brief 3D video skit with a variety of animated avatars that speak using the text-to-speech voices created during the pre-assignment. The resulting video is shown to all summer-school students in 3D in the visualisation dome on the last day.
WASP students must complete both the pre-assignment and the on-site assignment; WASP-HS students participating in the M&L track are only required to do the on-site component, but may also choose to complete the online pre-assignment if they wish to do so and have the technical proficiency to comprehend maths and use PyTorch.
1.5 ECTS credits for the in-person summer school (mandatory for everyone in the M&L track) + 1.5 ECTS credits for the online pre-assignment (mandatory for WASP students in the M&L track; optional for WASP-HS students in the M&L track)
WARA Public Safety
Public Safety and Security research is of increasing importance globally. The WASP Research Arena for Public Safety (WARA PS) promotes research in collaborative heterogenous agents and systems of systems - with the mission to keep society safe.
The WARA-PS Summer School track focuses on Human-AI Teaming to enhance societal safety. Participants will learn and apply the Joint Control Framework (JCF), which describes interactions between human operators and autonomous, automated, and manual control systems, to analyze the humans role in autonomous systems.
Students will engage in hands-on exercises to modify systems, exploring ways to strengthen human operators’ roles in autonomy. The course is scenario-driven, bringing research closer to real-world applications and encouraging students to critically assess the societal impact of autonomous systems. Labs will utilize the WARA-PS Core System for Urban Air Traffic Management (UTM), a cutting-edge system for unmanned aerial systems.
The track welcomes both technical and non-technical participants. Those without a technical background will focus on developing and analyzing scenarios related to regulation and prioritization.
Lectures will complement the labs and exercises, culminating in a final demonstration on the last day of the summer school. To earn full credit, students must attend all lectures and complete assigned tasks.
Familiarity with the Python programming language.
1, 5 credit.
WARA Robotics
Discovering unforeseen challenges and driving breakthroughs – this is the essence of the WASP Research Arena for Robotics (WARA Robotics). We are creating a tangible, industry-relevant environment tailor-made for revolutionary industrial automation research.
The WARA Robotics track explores the challenges of resilience and regulation in robotics and AI, focusing on trust dynamics between humans and autonomous systems. Students will interact with a language-enabled robot (a dual-arm ABB YuMi robot) , instructing it to build structures with cubes or arrange them in specific patterns. However, they may encounter unexpected execution failures, leading to disruptions in their tasks. Through this hands-on experience, students will critically examine the consequences of robot failures, discuss the psychological and ethical implications of trust in automation, and explore strategies for rebuilding reliability in AI-driven systems. The workshop will equip participants with a deeper understanding of how human-robot trust is established, broken, and repaired, informing broader discussions on responsible AI development and regulation.
Familiarity with the Python programming language and preferably experience with Linux OS.
1.5 ECTS credits for the in-person assignment (mandatory for everyone in the robotics track).
1.5 ECTS credits for the online pre-assignment (this is conditioned to the collaboration with WARA-OPS)
WASP Humanity and Society
The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society (WASP-HS) is a national research program in Sweden. The vision of WASP-HS is to foster novel interdisciplinary knowledge in the humanities and social sciences about AI and autonomous systems and their impact on human and social development and vice versa. WASP-HS enables cutting edge research, expertise and competence building in the humanities and social sciences. As such, WASP-HS contributes to the development of innovative humane technologies and their transformative interaction with society.
Video from last years' Summer School
Contact
For general questions from WASP PhD students, contact wasp.event@partner.liu.se
For general questions from WASP-HS PhD students, contact graduate.school@wasp-hs.org