[DL] [RW 2025] 3rd CFP: Reasoning Web 2025 (New: Travel Grants Available)

[Kai Sauerwald]

Third Call for Participation & Call for Travel Grant Applications
21st Reasoning Web Summer School
September 25-28, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey

https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web
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We are happy to announce that the 21st edition of the Reasoning Web 
Summer School (RW 2025) will take place from September 25-28, 2025 in 
Istanbul, Turkey. RW 2025 is part of Declarative AI 2025, which also 
includes the 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning 
(RuleML+RR) and DecisionCAMP 2025, both held from September 22-24, 2025.

The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent 
advances in reasoning techniques and relevant topics related to 
ontologies, rules, logic, the semantic web, linked data, and knowledge 
graph applications. The summer school is primarily intended for 
individuals who are currently pursuing or have recently completed 
postgraduate degrees (PhD or MSc). However, the school also welcomes the 
participation of researchers at later career stages who wish to become 
acquainted with the area or deepen their understanding of recent 
developments. The RW school is a great venue for meeting like-minded 
researchers and exchanging with an engaging and approachable group of 
international lecturers!



*** Summer School Program ***

As in previous years, the summer school will feature 8 tutorials 
delivered by researchers who are experts in the area. Here are the 
confirmed speakers and topics for this year's school:

   * Camille Bourgaux: Inconsistency-Tolerant Semantics Based on 
Preferred Repairs

   * Esra Erdem, Aysu Bogatarkan, Muge Fidan: Human-Centered ASP 
Applications: Representation and Reasoning

   * Patrick Koopmann: Explaining Reasoning Results for Description 
Logic Ontologies

   * Markus Krötzsch: Modern Datalog: Concepts, Methods, Applications

   * Antonella Poggi: From One-Level to Multi-Level Ontology-Based Data 
Access

   * Francesco Ricca and Giuseppe Mazzotta: ASP Essentials: Modelling 
and Efficient Solving

   * Luciano Serafini: Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence

   * Przemyslaw Walega: Reasoning about Time in DatalogMTL

Tutorial abstracts and speaker bios can be found on the RW 2025 website: 
  https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web/program



*** Applications & Registration ***

To participate in RW 2025, you will need to submit a short application, 
with information on your academic and research background and motivation 
for attending the school. You can do so by filling out the following form:

  
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aIIeJdHS2zash1gCMmqw2_UnFMNO7DMA7X8SyI8x3bI/edit

or alternatively, by sending the organizers an email with all of the 
information requested on the form.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and notifications will 
be sent within 1-2 weeks from the time of application. Successful 
applicants will receive information on how to pay the registration fee 
to confirm their spot in the school.

There is a discounted fee of 240€ (incl. VAT) for applications received 
by May 31st (180€, for local participants with a Turkish affiliation). 
The regular fee of 300€ (incl. VAT) applies to applications received on 
or after June 1st (240€, for local participants with a Turkish 
affiliation). The registration fee includes access to the lectures, 
lunches, and coffee breaks for the four days, as well as a social event.

Note that students who participate in RW 2025 are also encouraged to 
apply to the Rule ML+RR Doctoral Consortium. Summer school participants 
who have a paper accepted at the Doctoral Consortium can attend the 
relevant Doctoral Consortium session without registering for the conference.



*** (NEW) Travel Grants ***

We are happy to announce the availability of a limited number of travel 
grants to help support students who wish to attend RW 2025 but lack 
sufficient funding. Travel grants will consist of free registration to 
the school and a contribution of up to 600€ to help cover travel 
expenses (the grant amount will be transferred shortly after the school).

To apply for a travel grant:

1) Submit an application to attend RW 2025 (see above), if you have not 
already done so.

2) Send an email to the RW 2025 chairs (email addresses below) with 
subject line "RW 2025 Travel Grant Application". The email should 
contain a brief estimate of your expected travel costs and a letter from 
your supervisor in support of your travel grant application confirming 
that you are a full-time student and that your participation cannot be 
financed by other means.

The deadline for submitting a travel grant application is *Tuesday, May 
20*. Notifications will be sent by the end of May.

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If you require additional information, please get in touch with the chairs.

   * Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
   artale at inf.unibz.it

   * Meghyn Bienvenu, CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France
   meghyn.bienvenu at u-bordeaux.fr