Summer/Winter School Sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT

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 (2026-2027)

Please refer to here

Support Details

• Funding: Selected proposals will receive financial support of up to USD $10,000 per school program, depending on the scope and scale of the project. Not all schools are expected to receive the full amount of funding they request.
• Duration: The grant covers summer/winter school programs taking place between August 1, 2026, and August 31, 2027.
• Eligibility: Anyone is eligible to apply. Priority will be given to applicants/organizers who are SIGSOFT members.

Program Chairs

• Christoph Treude, ctreude@smu.edu.sg, Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Yuan Tian, y.tian@queensu.ca, Queen’s University, Canada

Program Committee

To be announced.

Previous schools

2025-26 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

2025-26: 11 schools funded. 80K USD

2024-25: 13 schools funded. 81K USD

2023 - 2024: 13 schools funded. 80K USD