The Department of Informatics organizes summer schools in the three focus fields Information Systems, Software Systems, and Multimodal and Cognitive Systems. In this summer schools the doctoral students can earn ECTS credits for their degrees. The summer schools focus on two goals:

• Courses on research methodologies teach the doctoral students the basics of scientific work. The courses cover topics such as to conduct a literature survey, to formulate a doctoral proposal, to read, write and review scientific papers, and to evaluate research ideas.
• Invited speakers will provide the doctoral students with deep insights into the state of the art in their field of research.

This year's IfI summer school will take place June 28 - July 2, 2021 at the University of Zurich, Department of Informatics.
Due to the current situation with the Corona pandemic the IfI Summer School 2021 will be operated digitally via Zoom.

2019 IfI Summer School on Data Science (June 24 to 28, 2019)

2018 IfI Summer School on Machine Learning (June 25 to 29, 2018)

2017 IfI Summer Courses

2016 IfI Summer School (June 20 to 24, 2016)

2015 IFI Summer School (June 22 to 26, 2015)

2014 IFI Summer School (June 23 to 27, 2014)

2013 IFI Summer School (June 24 to 28, 2013)

2012 IFI Summer School (June 25 to 29, 2012)

ifi Summer School 2011 on Interaction, Visualization and Ubiquitous Computing(July 4 to 8, 2011)

4th International Summer School on Network and Service Management (June 21-25, 2010)