The 16th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE) aims at bringing academics, researchers, teachers, practicing engineers and industry experts from all over the world onto a common platform.The 2025 Edition of RiE will be held live in the Thessaloniki, Greece. We encourage you to submit and present new trends, practical experiences, innovations and advances in the area of Robotics in Education.

The conference will include plenary sessions, contributed paper sessions and exhibits. The final program will be the result of a highly selective review process designed to include the best work of its kind in every category. Video presentations are recommended when they help presenters to offer a better understanding of robots, experiments and technical or educational practices. We expect an exciting conference program, and cordially invite researchers and educators from the field of Educational Robotics to submit their papers.

List of Topics

• Robotics in school and its curricula
• International trends in educational robotics
• Project-based learning and robotics
• Didactic approaches in educational robotics
• Exemplary robotics projects in classes
• Web-based and remote robotics and simulation
• Assessment and evaluation of robotics – enhanced class activities
• Integration of robotics in school curricula
• Evaluation criteria and tools for measuring the impact
• Constructivism/constructionism and robotics
• Methodologies for teaching robotics
• Robotics contests and their educational impact
• Robotics through edutainment, museums, personal robots and their educational value
• Humanoid robots in education
• Dextrous autonomous robots and humanoids
• Cognition, natural and automated – cognitics
• Robotic competitions and their use in education

Committee

• Dr. Panicos Masouras, Cyprus University of Technology
• Richard Balogh, Slovak University of Technology
• David Obdržálek, Charles University, Czech Republic

Publication

All accepted papers will be published by Springer as a special volume in the prestigious Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series. The volumes of this series are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services including SI Proceedings, SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, SCImago and Springerlink.

Venue

The conference will be hosted at the premises of the Macedonia University in Thessaloniki, the second and “youngest” University of the city of Thessaloniki specializing in economic and social sciences.

Thessaloniki is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area. It is located on the Thermaic Gulf, at the northwest corner of the Aegean Sea. It is Greece's second major economic, industrial, commercial and political centre, and a major transportation hub for Greece and southeastern Europe, mainly through the Port of Thessaloniki.

The city is easily accessible, and its international airport has frequent flights from Athens and all the major European capitals. It can also be reached by car, bus or train.

Contact

All the additional information can be found on the conference website https://rie.science.

Any additional questions about submissions should be emailed to Richard Balogh (balogh@elf.stuba.sk), the conference chair.