SERESSA combines academic, government, and industrial communities working in the area of radiation effects on embedded systems. Radiation effects are a significant concern for space and avionics systems, as well as for critical applications operating at ground level such as automotive, high energy facilities, medical or even banking. The school is based on lectures and exercises involving real case studies using the common tools of the domain. The intended audience includes both beginning and experienced researchers, engineers, and post-graduate students wishing to enhance their knowledge base in this rapidly evolving field. Topics covered by SERESSA include: radiation environment, spacecraft anomalies, single-event effects (SEE), total dose effects (TID), radiation effects in power systems, radiation effects in solar cells, architecture hardening in analog, and digital circuits and in memories, software hardening, effects in FPGAs, hardness assurance, rate prediction, radiation testing, laser testing and remote testing experiments.

First SERESSA was organised in 2005, in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, Manaus, Brazil. Then, it moved around the world, being organised in Seville, Buenos Aires, Palm Beach, Takasaki, São José dos Campos, Toulouse, Ansan, Moscow, Bariloche, Puebla, Montreal, Munich, Nordwick, Seville and Porto Alegre (virtual). Now, in 2021, it will be a fully Virtual Edition again, from Porto Alegre, Brazil.

• Enxia Zhang (Vanderbilt University)
• Fernanda Kastensmidt (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Joaquim E. R. Costa (INPE)
• Jorge Johanny Sáenz Noval (Instituto de Microeletrônica em Sevilla)
• José Azambuja (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Laurent Artola (Onera, France)
• Luca Sterpone (Poltecnico di Torino, Italy)
• Luciano Ost (Loughborough University)
• Matteo Cecchetto (CERN, Switzerland)
• Nadia Rezzak (Microchip Technology Inc.)
• Nilberto Heder Medina (Universidade de São Paulo)
• Paolo Rech (Politécnico di Torino and UFRGS)
• Ricardo Reis and Leonardo Brendler (UFRGS, Brazil )
• Rodrigo Possamai Bastos (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, TIMA Laboratory)
• Slawosz Uznanski (CERN, Switzerland)
• Tiago Balen (UFRGS)