diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04ce39b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+name: unit-tests
+on:
+  # Trigger the workflow on push or pull request,
+  # but only for the main branch
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - master
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: python-3.7
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: 3.7
+    - name: install-dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install -e .
+    - name: print env
+      run: |
+        env
+    - name: pytorch-test
+      run: |
+        ./tests/end2end_pytorch/run.sh
+    - name: tensorflow-test
+      run: |
+        ./tests/end2end_tensorflow/run.sh
+    - name: doc-creation-test
+      run: |
+        ./tests/test_docs/run.sh
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4da7377..0000000
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-language: python
-python:
-  - "3.7"
-cache: pip
-install:
-  - pip install -e . --quiet
-jobs:
-  include:
-    - script: ./tests/end2end_pytorch/run.sh
-    - script: ./tests/end2end_tensorflow/run.sh
-    - script: ./tests/test_docs/run.sh
diff --git a/tests/end2end_pytorch/run.sh b/tests/end2end_pytorch/run.sh
index c88969d..e8383f7 100755
--- a/tests/end2end_pytorch/run.sh
+++ b/tests/end2end_pytorch/run.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ cd ${DIR}
 cookiecutter ../.. --no-input --output-dir=./
 cd wonderful_project
 git init
+# setting some fake name/email for git:
+git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
+git config --global user.name "Your Name"
 git add -A
 git commit -m "initial commit"
 pip install -e . --quiet
diff --git a/tests/end2end_tensorflow/run.sh b/tests/end2end_tensorflow/run.sh
index 3d0fecc..ae5fc5e 100755
--- a/tests/end2end_tensorflow/run.sh
+++ b/tests/end2end_tensorflow/run.sh
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ cd ${DIR}
 python -c "from cookiecutter.main import cookiecutter; cookiecutter('../..', no_input=True, extra_context={'dl_framework': 'tensorflow_cpu'}, output_dir='./')"
 cd wonderful_project
 git init
+# setting some fake name/email for git:
+git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
+git config --global user.name "Your Name"
 git add -A
 git commit -m "initial commit"
 pip install -e . --quiet
diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.travis.yml b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.travis.yml
index bebe64c..d9936a2 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.travis.yml
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/.travis.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ cache: pip
 install:
   # Reducing verbosity is needed because of Travis' limit on log length
   - pip install -e . --quiet
-  - pip install pytest-cov
 script:
   # run flake8 with exactly the same options as in the commit hook:
   - config/hooks/pre-commit