SIGSOFT provides financial support to summer or winter schools focused on all aspects of software engineering across the world. Our goal is to promote education, foster academic growth, and improve access to quality learning experiences.
Current Call for Proposal (2025-2026)
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Program Committee
- Chair: Christoph Treude, ctreude@smu.edu.sg, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Chair: Yuan Tian, y.tian@queensu.ca, Queen’s University, Canada
- Bianca Trinkenreich, bianca.trinkenreich@colostate.edu, Colorado State University, USA
- Chetan Arora, chetan.arora@monash.edu, Monash University, Australia
- Fabian Gilson, fabian.gilson@canterbury.ac.nz, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Fabio Petrillo, fabio.petrillo@etsmtl.ca, École de Technologie Supérieur, Canada
- Gemma Catolino, gcatolino@unisa.it, University of Salerno, Italy
- Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur, gopikrishnanrajbahadur@gmail.com, Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada
- Igor Steinmacher, igor.steinmacher@nau.edu, Northern Arizona University, USA
- Manuel Rigger, rigger@nus.edu.sg, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Michel Chaudron, m.r.v.chaudron@tue.nl, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Nicole Novielli, nicole.novielli@uniba.it, University of Bari, Italy
- Raula Gaikovina Kula, raula-k@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Japan
- Sarah Nadi, sarah.nadi@nyu.edu, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Xin Peng, pengxin@fudan.edu.cn, Fudan University, China
- Yingfei Xiong, xiongyf@pku.edu.cn, Peking University, China
11 schools funded, 80K USD
| 2025-2026 Summer/Winter Schools | Organizer(s) |
|---|---|
| 5th LATAM School - The Latin American School in Software Engineering Research, September 22-23, 2025, Brazil | Lina Garces |
| 2nd School of Empirical Studies in Software Engineering, July 2026, Brazil | Lilian Passos Scatalon, Maria Lydia Fioravanti, Edson OliveiraJr, Ellen Francine Barbosa |
| 2025-2026 Summer/Winter Schools | Organizer(s) |
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| 5th LATAM School - The Latin American School in Software Engineering Research, September 22-23, 2025, Brazil | Lina Garces |
| 2nd School of Empirical Studies in Software Engineering, July 2026, Brazil | Lilian Passos Scatalon, Maria Lydia Fioravanti, Edson Oliveira Jr, Ellen Francine Barbosa |
| BRIDGES Summer School in The South Pacific: Innovative Prototyping through AI-powered tech and Open Source, January 9–11, 2026, Papua New Guinea | Raula Gaikovina Kula, Youmei Fan, Benson Mirou, Winifred Kula |
| Proposal for the 1st SIGSOFT African Winter School on Software Engineering and Intelligence (ASSEI 2025), November 23–25, 2025, Tunisia | Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Maha Khemaja, Montassar Ben Messaoud |
| Robotic Mission Engineering (RoME) - A Software Engineering for Robotics Summer School, February 23–27, 2026, Brazil | Genaína Nunes Rodrigues, Paulo Henrique Maia, Lina Marsso, Ana Cavalcanti, Patrizio Pelliccione |
| ACM SIGSOFT Winter School on AI-Infused Software Engineering (AISE) - Research and Practice, December 2025, India | Saurabh Tiwari, Santosh Singh Rathore, Sridhar Chimalakonda, Chetan Arora, Meenakshi D’Souza, Sudakshina Dutta |
| International Summer School on LLM-based Agents for Software Engineering, September 1-3, 2025, Spain | Roberto Rodriguez-Echeverria, José María Conejero, Fernando Sanchez-Figueroa, José Raúl Romero Salguero |
| ACM SIGSOFT Australian Summer School on Software Engineering (OzSE), February 2-4, 2026, Australia | Patanamon Thongtanunam, Kla Tantithamthavorn, Chetan Arora, Tingting Bi, Michael Fu |
| TAROT 2026 | 21st Summer School on Software Testing, Verification & Validation, July 2026, Germany | Andrea Stocco, Alessio Gambi |
| 22nd International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering, October 1st, 2025, USA | Davide Taibi, Tim Menzies, Dan Port |
| LLM Software Development, November 2025, Germany | Chunyang Chen, Jieshan Chen, Shengcheng Yu |
Previous schools
2024-25: 13 schools funded. 81K USD
| 2024-2025 Summer/Winter Schools | Organizer(s) |
|---|---|
| ICT4Dev summer school, Mozambique | Luciano Baresi |
| SDR winter school, Namibia | Ari Happonen |
| Argentinian Summer School on Informatics RIO, Argentina | Sebastian Uchitel |
| International Summer School on Specifications and Analysis for Software Engineers, CMU | Eunsuk Kang and Shahar Maoz |
| Robotic Mission Engineering (RoME), Brazil | Genaina Nunes Rodrigues |
| Summer School for Software Engineering in Robotics, Brussels | Darko Bozhinoski |
| International Software Architecture Ph.D School, Netherlands | |
| Summer School on Emo-aware Persuasive Software Systems, Lima, Peru | |
| Green Software Engineering Winter School, Nigeria | |
| UMBC Ethical Software Lab Workshop, Baltimore MD | Muhammad Samarah |
2023 - 2024: 13 schools funded. 80K USD
| 2023-2024 Summer/Winter Schools | Organizer(s) |
|---|---|
| Singapore Summer School on Fuzz Testing | Abhik Roychoudhury |
| SIESTA 2023 - 3rd International Software Engineering Summer School, Switzerland | Roberto Minelli |
| 20th International Advanced School on Empirical Software Engineering, New Orleans | Jeffrey Carver |
| Summer School on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Bogota, Colombia | Esteban Parra Rodriguez, |
| Australasian Software Engineering Summer School (ASESS), Australia | John Grundy |
| The ICTAC 2023 Training School on Applied Formal Methods, Peru | Silvia Lezeth Tapia Tarifa |
| 2024 Summer School on Retro Gaming History, Critic, and Development, Montreal, Canada | Yann-Gael Gueheneuc |
| Robotic Mission Engineering (RoME) - A Software Engineering for Robotics Summer School, Brazil | Genaina Nunes Rodrigues |
| International Summer School on Training and Research on Testing, Bergamo, Italy | Angelo Gargantini |
| Summer School for Software Engineering in Robotics, Brussels, Belgium | Darko Bozhinoski |
| ICT4DEV Summer School on Software Engineering, Mozambique | Luciano Baresi |
| Summer School on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Software Engineering (AIT4SE), Montreal, Canada | Tien Nguyen |
| Winter School on Scoping Empirical Studies in Software Engineering, Brazil | Lilian Passos Scatalon |