Community Events

An intensive 5-days of bridging the various disciplinary knowledge and views of othering and polarization. This will include social simulators but also people from all fields.

By taking part of this 2-week training course, you will gain a modelling culture and learn the different skills required for building agentg-based models applied to sociological, ecological or socio-ecological systems.

Paid 10-week summer research experience for U.S. undergraduates focusing on disinformation detection and analytics at Old Dominion University. US residents must be enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program and will conduct hands-on research with one-on-one faculty mentor supervision.

The BIGSSS-CSS Summer School on social cohesion takes place on July 4 – 15, 2022 at the Department of Sociology of the University of Groningen (Netherlands). (The school was planned for 2020 but […]

ABMUS is a workshop where urban and geo-spatial models get together in a focused session, during the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). The ABMUS2022 wo[…]

Taught by Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler (Mainz University; president of ESSA) and Dr. Corinna Elsenbroich (Glasgow University), the course “Policy Modelling” focuses on the substantive problems, theories, and related computational models in a number of core areas of policy modelling. Participants learn to bridge the gap between policy practice and formal models by applying complexity-sensitive computational methods (especially agent-based modelling) using Netlogo and Python.

iEMSs 2022 is the official biennial conference of the International Environmental Modelling & Software Society, sponsors of the high impact journal, Environmental Modelling & Software, and the op[…]

This online school aims to train students on Agent-Based Models (ABM) in NetLogo by using modelling examples from social science research. The course is ideally addressed to beginners but also mo[…]

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States are invited to apply to participate in the 12th International HPC Summer School, June 19-24, 2022 in Athens, Greece.

Social Simulation FesT will return in 2022, making the event a tradition (see https://www.socsimfest.eu/). This year we will have a SocSimFesT Month: 3, 10, 17 and 25 May 2022. The first four Tue[…]