The China-Europe International Symposium on Software Engineering Education (CEISEE) was evolved from the China-Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Oriented Education (CEISIE), which was founded in 2005, according to rapid development of software engineering education in both China and Europe.

The China-Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Oriented Education was initialized from an international education project, EMERSION project (Education to Meet the Requirements of Software Industry and Beyond – Establishing, Implementing and Evaluating an Industry Oriented Education Model in China) which is supported by the “Asia-Link Programme” of European Commission, with the collaboration of Dublin Institute of Technology(DIT) in Ireland and Harbin Institute of Technology(HIT) in China. During the EMERSION project, the project members would like to share the educational achievements and experience with more universities and institutes in Europe and in China.

In January 2005, the 1st China-Europe International Symposium on Software Industry Oriented Education was held in HIT, Harbin, China. The initial abbreviation of the symposium was CEIS-SIOE. In 2006, the 2nd CIES-SIOE was again held in HIT, Harbin. In that conference, it was decided that this conference should be held in each year in exchanged side of either China or Europe. Then the 3rd Symposium was held in DIT, Dublin, Ireland, in 2007. The initial abbreviation of the symposium was changed from CEIS-SIOE into CEISIE. The 4th CEISIE symposium was held in Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2008. The 5th CEISIE symposium was held in University of Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France, in 2009. The 6th CEISIE symposium took place in Northwestern Poly-Technical University, Xi’an, China, in 2010. The 7th CEISIE symposium was held in University of Northampton, Northampton, UK, in 2011.

Then it was decided to change the name of the symposium from CEISIE into CEISEE (China-Europe International symposium on Software Engineering Education), in order to extend the scopes of the conference and to emphasize development of discipline on software engineering. The 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th CEISEE symposium was held by Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China in 2012, University of Pavia, Milan, Italy in 2013, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China in 2014, Applied University Zwickau, Zwickau, Germany in 2015, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China in 2016, University of Derby (UK), Athens, Greece in 2017, Harbin Institute of Technology at Shenzhen, China in 2018, UNINOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal in 2019, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China in 2020(online/offline), Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China in 2021 (online/offline),Algebra University College in Zagreb, Croatia in 2022 (online), and Wuhan University, Wuhan, China in 2023 respectively. In 2024, the CEISEE will be held in Serbia.

The CEISIE/CEISEE symposiums were very successful and attracted great attentions from educators, industrialists and governmental officers, who are interested in software engineering education, in both China and Europe. Until now, more than 1,500 participants from 25 countries, e.g. China, Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Russia, USA, Australia, etc. have attended symposiums.

The CEISEE aims at exploring new approach to develop software engineering discipline and software engineering education in both China and Europe, according to the changing tendency of technical development of software engineering and educational requirements of the software talents all over the world. The CEISEE is a good platform for the educators, industrialists and governmental officers related to software engineering education to exchange their ideas, to share their experience, and to develop their academic community in this domain.

The theme of the CEISEE 2024 is “AI Enabled Software Engineering Education in Digital Era”, especially the blooming of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, block chain, service science, robotics, autonomous systems, IoT, metaverse education, etc. Scope of the conference ranges from knowledge body and curriculum to the industry-university collaboration, to make the symposium more valuable and inspiring to the software engineering education community. This conference aims to explore the new approaches for software engineering education, including new software engineering related specialty programs and curriculum, cross-disciplinary education, cooperation between universities and industry, online education and e-learning, metaverse education, AI enabled education, digital transformation of education, innovative entrepreneurship practice, international cooperation on education, belt and road cooperation and connection, and other relevant topics.