Last week the BIP (blended intensive program) in "Machine Learning for data Science" has concluded in Bremen. The course focuses on the study of Artificial Intelligence methods, specifically Machine Learning, for use in Data Science. The BIP has been assigned 6 credits that correspond to 60 contact hours. This teaching is mainly online. It takes place throughout the semester and ends with a face-to-face week at one of the participating institutions, in this case at the Hochschule Bremen City University of Applied Sciences (Germany).

These short, intensive programs encourage innovative methods of learning and teaching, including research-based approaches and challenge-solving. In this edition, the project proposed to the students used a database of vehicle dealerships. The objective was to predict, from more than 100 characteristics of each vehicle, the time it will remain in the dealership until it is sold. To solve the problem, students had to use artificial intelligence methods and process more than 10 million pieces of data.

In addition to the University of La Laguna and the HSB Bremen, the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal) and the University of Applied Sciences of Hanze (Netherlands) are participating in this course. The total number of students was 40, seven of them from the IPB. The coordinators of the BIP at the IPB, Rui Pedro Lopes, have participated as teachers both in the online phase and in this face-to-face week.