Dear All: - The Department of Economics of the Ca 'Foscari University of Venice has announced a public selection for a one-year research grant entitled "*Combining optimization metaheuristics and artificial intelligence to design quasi-real-time trading strategies*"; - Application deadline: 23 July 2021, 12:00 (Italian time); - Call can be downloaded from the page *https://www.unive.it/data/17967/ <https://www.unive.it/data/17967/>*; - The main objective of the project is to develop and implement a decision-making system for financial trading combining metaheuristics for optimization with Machine Learning and Deep Learning techniques. Best regards, Marco Corazza -- Marco Corazza, Ph.D. Department of Economics - Ca' Foscari University of Venice San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873 - 30121 Venezia, Italy Mobile: (+39) 366 602-9134 Phone: (+39) 041 234-6921 Fax: (+39) 041 234-7444 E-mail: corazza@unive.it Editor-in-Chief: Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance - www.unive.it/m2ef -- <<[S]e siamo in grado di replicare un derivato, siamo anche in grado di determinare il suo valore relativo.>> M. Rubinstein (1999): "Derivati. Futures, opzioni e strategie dinamiche". Il Sole 24 Ore [pag. 72].