Periodic Reporting for period 2 - Adra-e (AI, Data and Robotics ecosystem)
Reporting period: 2024-01-01 to 2025-06-30
The overall objective for Adra-e is to support the ADR partnership in its full breadth. These include:
• Adra, as private side of the partnership
• The European Commission as public side of the partnership
• The larger ADR stakeholder community that is impacted by the partnership, notably the projects that are funded by the partnership, but also national (and regional) ADR initiatives and other related European initiatives (e.g. TEFs, NoEs etc).
The analysis made when preparing the proposal (submitted Oct 2021) was that the success of the partnership is critical for Europe, yet it is also a highly ambitious endeavor due to the holistic nature of ADR, and the fragmentation that exists between the involved stakeholder communities (AI, Data, and Robotics communities as well as industry and research). At the same time, the (diverse) communities that exist are valuable. They facilitate diverse viewpoints and priorities to emerge, which makes the European ADR ecosystem more complete, representative, and robust.
In close collaboration with representatives of the Adra Board of Directors, Adra-e was setup around the premises that this diversity is to be nurtured, but that bridges are to be built for an effective dialogue and action plan on European level. Assuring this balance and representation is therefore at the core of Adra-e. The Adra-e consortium includes partners from all stakeholder communities.
While the objective of Adra, and Adra-e is to create the conditions for an inclusive, sustainable, effective, multi-layered, and coherent European ADR ecosystem, there are challenges to overcome, including:
• Cultural differences, and different levels of maturity between stakeholder communities
• Interdependencies that exist between ADR topics (e.g. regulation, standardization, education, awareness)
• Breadth of the ADR ecosystem including nearly all industry sectors, and societal challenges
• Levels of granularity of the ADR ecosystem including regional, national and European and global dimensions.
The complexity of addressing these challenges is in the interdependencies that exist between them. Adra-e adopts a holistic approach to advance upon these by stimulating exchange between topic/domain experts organized in work packages through convergence events, recommendations to the SRIDA and the Adra-e web platform.
Adra-e counts 5 work-–packages (WP1 – WP5) that are structured around important topics for the ADR partnership, and 2 operational work packages (WP6 - WP7) to support the project.
• Adra, as private side of the partnership
• The European Commission as public side of the partnership
• The larger ADR stakeholder community that is impacted by the partnership, notably the projects that are funded by the partnership, but also national (and regional) ADR initiatives and other related European initiatives (e.g. TEFs, NoEs etc).
The analysis made when preparing the proposal (submitted Oct 2021) was that the success of the partnership is critical for Europe, yet it is also a highly ambitious endeavor due to the holistic nature of ADR, and the fragmentation that exists between the involved stakeholder communities (AI, Data, and Robotics communities as well as industry and research). At the same time, the (diverse) communities that exist are valuable. They facilitate diverse viewpoints and priorities to emerge, which makes the European ADR ecosystem more complete, representative, and robust.
In close collaboration with representatives of the Adra Board of Directors, Adra-e was setup around the premises that this diversity is to be nurtured, but that bridges are to be built for an effective dialogue and action plan on European level. Assuring this balance and representation is therefore at the core of Adra-e. The Adra-e consortium includes partners from all stakeholder communities.
While the objective of Adra, and Adra-e is to create the conditions for an inclusive, sustainable, effective, multi-layered, and coherent European ADR ecosystem, there are challenges to overcome, including:
• Cultural differences, and different levels of maturity between stakeholder communities
• Interdependencies that exist between ADR topics (e.g. regulation, standardization, education, awareness)
• Breadth of the ADR ecosystem including nearly all industry sectors, and societal challenges
• Levels of granularity of the ADR ecosystem including regional, national and European and global dimensions.
The complexity of addressing these challenges is in the interdependencies that exist between them. Adra-e adopts a holistic approach to advance upon these by stimulating exchange between topic/domain experts organized in work packages through convergence events, recommendations to the SRIDA and the Adra-e web platform.
Adra-e counts 5 work-–packages (WP1 – WP5) that are structured around important topics for the ADR partnership, and 2 operational work packages (WP6 - WP7) to support the project.
The main achievements of the project include:
• WP1: Organization of 2 AI, Data and Robotics Forum (ADRF), the Future Ready event, cross-community workshops to support the ADR community, Launch Events for Horizon Europe projects, production of a SRIDA methodology guidelines document and the AI Powered Robotics Roadmap.
• WP2: Development of the ecosystem mapping study and ADR Community cartography, creation of the ADR Joint Task Force, organization of 3 workshops, successful cross-project coordination, and piloting of the technology exhibition small-scale concept
• WP3: Development, launch, and promotion of the ADR Awareness Centre; Selection of the AI Trust label, Organization of the three Awareness Day events, and two open access books published by Springer.
• WP4: Organization of two European Convergence Summits, two Regional Ecosystems events, Ecosystem cartography and procurement cartography, organization of two procurement workshops
• WP5: develop networks and expand the ecosystem and for different members to open collaboration, achieved by monthly online meetings
• WP6: Continuous event support, production of 35 newsletters and 15 videos, surpassed KPIs on social media, continuous updates to the Awareness Centre on website and technical integration with AI-on-Demand via API, support to Adra communication and website management, production of Adra-e Sustainability Report.
• WP7: Online workspace and mailing lists to ensure successful collaboration, monthly WP and task leader meetings, General Assembly every 6 months, meetings of the Adra-e Advisory Board and Reference Committee
• WP1: Organization of 2 AI, Data and Robotics Forum (ADRF), the Future Ready event, cross-community workshops to support the ADR community, Launch Events for Horizon Europe projects, production of a SRIDA methodology guidelines document and the AI Powered Robotics Roadmap.
• WP2: Development of the ecosystem mapping study and ADR Community cartography, creation of the ADR Joint Task Force, organization of 3 workshops, successful cross-project coordination, and piloting of the technology exhibition small-scale concept
• WP3: Development, launch, and promotion of the ADR Awareness Centre; Selection of the AI Trust label, Organization of the three Awareness Day events, and two open access books published by Springer.
• WP4: Organization of two European Convergence Summits, two Regional Ecosystems events, Ecosystem cartography and procurement cartography, organization of two procurement workshops
• WP5: develop networks and expand the ecosystem and for different members to open collaboration, achieved by monthly online meetings
• WP6: Continuous event support, production of 35 newsletters and 15 videos, surpassed KPIs on social media, continuous updates to the Awareness Centre on website and technical integration with AI-on-Demand via API, support to Adra communication and website management, production of Adra-e Sustainability Report.
• WP7: Online workspace and mailing lists to ensure successful collaboration, monthly WP and task leader meetings, General Assembly every 6 months, meetings of the Adra-e Advisory Board and Reference Committee
As Adra-e is a Coordination & Support Action (CSA) and not a Research & Innovation project, Adra-e does not actively contribute to the current technological state of the art in the ADR research Community. Through its close collaboration with Adra Board of Directors and the European Commission, Adra-e has contributed to European sovereignty of AI, Data and Robotics technologies and knowhow, established European leadership, and reinforced a strong and global competitive position of Europe in ADR. The main developments of Adra-e to maximize impact of EU investments in ADR include : a) development of services such as the Awareness Centre and AI Trust label; b) focused network gatherings such as the European Convergence Summits, Awareness days, and cross-community workshops; c) support to Adra in providing actionable recommendations for the SRIDA; and d) creating a reference website with tools and services to support the ADR community.