Welcome to ESSIR 2026
The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students and young professionals to learn about modern research challenges and methods on IR and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on IR with collaborations all around the world.
The summer school will include, apart from the hands-on sessions, a workshop, a practical challenge/hackathon and of course the social and networking activities. PhD students can obtain ECTS credits based on the graduation of an exam organized on the last day of the school.
ESSIR 2026, the 17th edition, is organized in Bucharest, Romania as a cooperation between the CAMPUS Research Institute, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, and Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, and CEA LIST, Paris, France, from July 27-31, 2026.
Previous editions
- ELLIS ESSIR 2025, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
- ELLIS ESSIR 2024, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- ESSIR 2023, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
- ESSIR 2022, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
For more information and other previous editions see essir.eu.
