🌍 Secure Smart Regions — The Systems Challenge of Our Time
Cyber-Physical Systems • Critical Infrastructures • Security • Real-Time • Resilience • Trustworthy AI • Sustainability • Distributed Systems • Data Management • Interoperability
Explore the Future of Hyperconnected, Resilient Regions – Join the 7th Future-IoT Summer School!
📅 When: August 20–26, 2025
📍 Where: Scharbeutz (near Timmendorfer Strand), Germany — with hybrid options available
🌐 Details & registration: https://fiot.me
🌐 2025 Theme: Secure Smart Regions
Our everyday surroundings are becoming smarter—homes, streets, buildings, vehicles, utilities, and services are increasingly interconnected, autonomous, and responsive. These hyperconnected systems hold the promise of more sustainable, efficient, and livable communities, but only if we build them to be secure, trustworthy, and resilient.
This year’s theme—Secure Smart Regions—tackles the urgent need to design and protect these evolving digital ecosystems. From smart energy and mobility to urban services and environmental monitoring, we’ll explore how to make smart things not only function—but function safely, at scale, and for the public good.
Why should you attend?
🔍 Engage in real-world challenge solving. Work hands-on with peers during an intensive week of project-based learning, culminating in a pitch to an international jury.
🧠 Learn from top researchers and innovators. High-level keynotes and masterclasses from leading European academics and practitioners.
🌍 Collaborate across cultures and disciplines. A truly Franco-German and European experience with binational mentorship and participants from diverse backgrounds.
🏖️ Immerse yourself in a unique, all-inclusive setting. Your registration covers accommodation, meals, and drinks, allowing you to focus entirely on learning, connecting, and creating—set by the beautiful Baltic Sea coast.
🫱 Experience the full spectrum: technical, social, and personal. From deep technical dives to evening hackathons and coastal excursions, this summer school is designed as a wholesome, enriching journey—intellectually and personally.
🎓 Who should apply?
We welcome applications from motivated doctoral candidates and advanced Master’s students, and also practitioners in areas such as computer science, embedded systems, data science, cybersecurity, urban tech, smart cities, public infrastructure, and beyond. Interdisciplinary thinkers and change-makers are especially encouraged.
This is more than a summer school. It’s a launchpad for those who want to shape the digital foundations of tomorrow’s society—and a chance to do it in one of the most inspiring learning environments in Europe.
📍 Apply now or learn more: https://fiot.me
We look forward to welcoming you this summer in Scharbeutz!
Warm regards,
Olivia Pahl (IMT)
Prof. Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl (IMT Atlantique)
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Steinhorst (TUM)
Chairs – Future-IoT Summer School 2025