OBJECTIVES
AI4Europe's main objective is to support & facilitate a sustainable digital platform and experimentation environment through the creation of open research channels and mechanisms that foster the European AI research ecosystem, academic and industrial, and that maximises the academic, social, and industrial impact while it seamlessly integrates other projects, platforms, and solutions.
The specific objectives are to:
1. Ensure platform support for the research community fostering a cooperative & transparent governance model open to contributions from all stakeholders to address their needs
2. Design and execute a sustainability plan that supports and ensures the long-term viability of technical, financial, & legal features of the AIOD platform
3. Integrate hardware resource provisioning into the platform to provide underlying computational resources, establishing it as a place to carry out and disseminate AI research
4. Advance the AIOD platform as an open distributed tool extendable by the community with new services & tools, and ensure interoperability with other strategic EU platforms
5. Enhance the accessibility & usability of the excellence science of Europe’s AI research community, and to ensure standard, secure, and executable reusable research assets
6. Embed mechanisms to facilitate the development & use of Trustworthy AI aligned with policy and regulatory developments in the EU
7. Foster the uptake of AI in research communities, industry, and society at large by mobilizing & enriching efforts in AI education, upskilling & reskilling
8. Enhance access, sharing, training & mobility for all European nations, ecosystems, & communities, with special attention on young AI scholars, facilitating cooperation & matchmaking
9. Ensure cooperation with the AI, Data and Robotics PPP & other related Digital Europe initiatives, to support them and to maximise the impact of the AIOD platform
IMPACTS
#1 - Scientific
• An AI platform to provide researchers with a comprehensive, sovereign, & sustainable infrastructure following European values
• Mitigate many IPR challenges that restrict the sharing of AI, datasets, & solutions
• An open governance model owned by the community, driven by their needs, based on contribution and fair principles
#2 - Economic/Technological
• An EU-wide platform for AI researchers to translate research into innovation
• By making online educational resources accessible, AI4Europe will promote European values to create a seal of quality
• A sustainable platform that ensures its technical, legal, & financial continuation after the finalisation of the project
• Easy-to-use set of services used by all researcher institutions on AI
• Ease to access heterogeneous hardware
#3 – Societal
• Increased inclusiveness, by supporting a human-centered approach to technology development, aligned with European social & ethical values, as well as sustainability
• Explicit & more transparent connection of the EU’s AI ecosystem with policy priorities
