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Call for Fellow Nominations for the AIED DEIA Mentoring Fellowships
(Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility)

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AIED Society is providing “AIED DEIA Mentoring Fellowship” to encourage greater participation from academics and researchers from communities that are currently underrepresented in AIED conferences and the AIED community.

The underrepresented communities include but are not limited to:

• Geographic: Countries with limited historical participation in AIED, specially those in Asia, Africa, Central America and South America
• Demographic: Demographic groups that have not historically participated in AIED in large numbers  
• Needs: Researchers with special needs

Nomination: Nominations are being solicited from members of underrepresented communities as defined above. If in doubt whether you belong to an underrepresented group, please feel free to contact the AIED-DEIA Chairs listed later in this call.

• The nominations could be self-nominations or nominations by AIED researchers who are already working with potential nominees from underrepresented groups.
• The nomination package should include:
  1. a portfolio of the work done to date, 
  2. a proposal for the work to be done during the AIED DEIA Mentoring Fellowship, 
  3. a CV, and 
  4. optionally, a list of up to 3 possible mentors that the nominee would like to work with during the fellowship.
• Nominations should be sent by email to Vania Dimitrova (V.G.Dimitrova@leeds.ac.uk) and Ig Ibert Bittencourt (ig.ibert@ic.ufal.br) with the subject heading “AIED DEIA Mentoring Fellowship”.

Selection of Fellows: Up to 5 Fellows will be selected based on their nomination package and participation in an AIED 2025 training workshop. Each selected Fellow will work with an AIED mentor for a year.

Mentoring of Fellows: 

• The Fellow nominees will be invited to attend an online training workshop during AIED 2025 where research methodologies will be discussed and potential mentors will be introduced.
• Throughout the year following the AIED 2025 conference, Fellowship awardees will meet with their mentors regularly once a month to flesh out their research and report progress.
• Fellowship awardees will be expected to submit a paper or poster co-authored with their mentor to AIED 2026. AIED 2026 registration fees will be waived for Fellows who submit their work to the conference.

• If the submission is accepted for presentation, the Fellow will also be awarded US $ 1,000 towards travel costs. They will be expected to attend the AIED 2026 conference in person and assist conference organization for up to 5 hours during the conference.
• If the submission is not accepted for presentation, if AIED 2026 is held in hybrid mode, the Fellow will be invited to attend the conference online for free.

Timeline

1. Friday, May 16, 2025: Fellow nominations due  
2. July 22 2025: AIED 2025 Workshop – During the AIED 2025 conference, an entirely online training workshop will be conducted that nominees will be expected to attend remotely. The workshop will include multiple topics of interest and concern to the research community.
3. Late July 2025: Based on nomination applications and participation in the online training workshop, 2025 Fellows are selected and paired with mentors.
4. August 2025 – February 2026: Mentoring occurs on a monthly basis.
5. February 2026: 2025 Mentee Fellows will submit a paper or poster of their work to AIED 2026. Mentees whose submissions are accepted for presentation will be awarded a travel stipend to attend AIED 2026.  
6. July 2026: AIED conference. 2025 fellows with travel stipends will attend the conference and present their work. Those who are not awarded stipends will be given the opportunity to participate online if the conference is held in hybrid mode. Neither will be charged a registration fee.