European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability

We live in a crucial historical moment, with tremendous challenges ahead, from climate change to the energy crisis. ELIAS emerges from the belief that AI will be a key discipline to help us tackle these challenges. At the same time, the development of AI entails deep ethical and societal concerns that need to be addressed. As for fundamental research, ELIAS will address key scientific questionsabout how AI can reduce computational costs, serves to model effects of policy decisions on society, and impacts individuals. ELIAS will strive for a deep integration of the fundamental research that takes place in academia and the more applications-focused research from industry.ELIAS builds on and expands the highly successful and internationally recognized European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). ELIAS will further develop the excellence criteria and the pillars in ELLIS and implement actions that will support AI researchers and young talents at different stages of their careers. Furthermore, ELIAS will develop a Sciencentrepreneurship track, with the purpose of attracting and empowering talents at the interface of scientific innovation and business and establish original AI solutions that move towards a sustainable long-term future for our planet,contribute to a cohesive society, and respect individual rights.The outcome of ELIAS will be to establish Europe as a leader in AI research in which impact on the environment, society and the individual are integral considerations during development. We will measure the success of this endeavor in terms of key indicators, including the number of new cross-institutional collaborations, the number of cross-disciplinary collaborations, the number ofindustry-academic partnerships, publications in top conferences and journals, patents, and the number of projects that have resulted in deployed technologies.
Rettorato Università degli Studi di Trento
AALTO-KORKEAKOULUSAATIO, BITDEFENDER SRLBitdefender SRL, Robert Bosch GmbH, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Czech Technical University Prague, ELLIS Alicante, Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica SPA, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH, IBM Ireland Limited, IDEAS NCBR SP ZOO, Idiap Research Institute, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Institut de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Jozef Stefan Institute, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Sciences, Politecnico di Milano, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Copenhagen University, University of Manchester, UMEA UNIVERSITET, Universita degli Studi di Milano, University of Genoa, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, University of Amsterdam, Universitat de Valencia
Horizon Europe
Sep 01, 2023
Aug 31, 2027