LEAD Retreat October 2025 |

October 15-17, 2025, Blaubeuren

Dear LEAD members and guests,

You are warmly invited to our upcoming LEAD Retreat taking place from October 15-17, 2025 at the Tagungszentrum Blaubeuren in Blaubeuren.

We have again prepared a program with a wonderful set of keynote speakers. The progam is still provisional and there is still some room for you to contribute to it to make this a successful retreat. Please enter your planned attendance for meals, accommodation and contributions below. Of course all personal data will be treated confidentially.

All documents and updates on the retreat will be communicated through a dedicated LEAD Retreat channel on MS Teams. If you have technical problems accessing the channel, please let us know and we will find a solution.

Feel free to contact us with any questions regarding the retreat through coordination@lead.uni-tuebingen.de.

We are looking forward to the retreat and to seeing you soon in Blaubeuren!

Best wishes,

Simone, Sophie and Philipp on behalf of the LEAD Scientific Coordination Team

Please indicate here if you need child care options during the retreat and we will try to work out an individual solution with you.

Please indicate here if you would like to reserve a seat on the bus. The bus is the primary mode of transportation. Except in justifiable cases, LEAD will not reimburse travel costs for other transportation (public transport, car, taxi etc.). 

If you cannot take part for the whole duration of the retreat and are interested in sharing a ride (either as a driver or passenger), please make use of the carpooling option and check/enter this list.

During the retreat only vegetarian meals will be served. â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹Please list other dietary restrictions (e.g. intolerances, allergies, vegan etc.) below.

All PhD candidates will present a poster. Please indicate the (preliminary) title of your presentation in this document (also available through the MS Teams Channel).

New PhD candidates on their first retreat will present their PhD project in a dedicated "newcomer poster fair" and there will be a poster fair dedicated to posters of projects in the AI + Education Future Funds on Friday.

The so called "Special Interest Groups" give you the opportunity to discuss an individual topic with a smaller group of people to give or receive feedback (e.g. new research projects; new research idea; third party funding or any other proposals). Please indicate the title of your group or the group you would like to participate in this document on the MS Teams channel. If you want a specific person to attend your group, please contact them yourself.

If you can imagine offering a social activitiy (e.g. social walk, sports, games...) in the mornings or evenings, please enter your idea(s) into this document. Of course, this is only preliminary and just a help for us to make the planning process easier! We will be in touch with you about your planned activities in due time.

All documents, e.g. the program, registration for poster sessions and SIGs, are available on the Retreat Teams Channel. To join the channel, please follow this link. If you have problems accessing the channel, please send an email to coordination@lead.uni-tuebingen.de.