UNIC Athens is hosting IMCL 2026, the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Multimodal Communication and Learning Technologies, on 12 and 13 November at its campus in Elliniko. The theme of this edition is Artificial Intelligence in Education, Learning and Research.
The programme brings 119 papers into 21 sessions across three rooms, with four keynote lectures, two workshops, and on-site and remote presentations. The papers study how schools and universities use AI in practice: tutors built from course materials, AI in assessment and feedback, immersive and multimodal learning, learner analytics and accessibility, and the governance questions that follow.
The conference is co-organised by the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), UNIC Athens and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with technical co-sponsorship from the IEEE Education Society and IGIP. Professor Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is General Chair; Professor Despo Ktoridou and Dr Epaminondas Epaminonda of the University of Nicosia are Conference Co-Chairs. The opening programme lists addresses by Professor Nicos Papaioannou, Deputy Minister of Higher Education of Greece, and Antonis Polemitis, CEO of the University of Nicosia.
Four Keynote Lectures
On Thursday, Demetrios Sampson of the University of Piraeus asks how AI may change teaching, learning and assessment, and Oksana Arnold of the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt argues that learners should treat the output of language models as hypotheses to test. On Friday, Maria Roussou of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens speaks on designing learning environments for dialogue and reflection, and Christian Geisler Asmussen of Copenhagen Business School on whether AI that everyone can use levels the field or helps the strong pull ahead.
UNIC Research in the Programme
University of Nicosia authors contribute 11 papers. Among them, Maria Michailidis and Spyros Makridakis present Education in the Age of AGI; Napoleon Tsougkas examines what happens to entry-level employment when generative AI does junior work; and Vasso Stylianou, Despo Ktoridou, Andreas Savva and Epaminondas Epaminonda report a usability study of multimodal mobile AI as a study companion. Chris Christou and Marinos Themistocleous present Neoverse, virtual campus infrastructure with embodied AI agents for a European university alliance, with Daniele Monaco of the University of Salerno.
Papers that are accepted and presented are published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems.
The keynotes, every session with a summary and all 119 papers are on the IMCL 2026 page.