Project description
Putting European Values and Creative Practice at the Heart of AI
While AI is rapidly reshaping Europe’s cultural and creative sectors, artists and businesses face uncertainty over copyright, transparency, creative control, quality, and market concentration. The EU-funded EAiCCI project responds with a European by design AI Commons serving creative practice and public value. The goal is to place current realities and future possibilities of AI in Europe at the centre of dialogue among artists, CCI, higher arts education and policymakers. Together, they will collect data, develop and test practical small data tools and guidance, drawing also on artistic practice and foresight. Next they empower communities in the fair and creative use of AI, grounded in democratic values and cultural diversity. Additionally, the project creates open resources that can be integrated with European data spaces.
Objective
Artificial intelligence has become a defining force in Europe, shaping economies, culture, and public debate while testing the Union’s commitment to democracy, diversity, sustainability, and competitiveness. In the cultural field, AI arrives with hype and anxiety. Europe’s CCI lack trusted rights-aware tools and evidence to guide adoption. Artists, industry, policymakers and higher arts education face opaque systems, legal uncertainty, mediocre quality and market concentration. This proposal responds with European-by-design AI Commons serving creative practice and public value.
EAiCCI advances sovereign, transparent and values-aligned AI with four goals: sovereignty, small-data innovation, rights-based trust and professional empowerment via literacy and agency. Objectives are realised through community-based data collection and creation of evidence-based learning resources, policy recommendations and provenance-rich datasets, coupled with small-data machine-learning pipelines. Artistic foresight guides scenario development and engagement, and sector-ready tools are co-designed with artists, SMEs and institutions, tested in pilots and validated through independent evaluation, benchmarks, and community feedback. Higher arts education takes a leadership role and activities connect actors, initiatives and communities, with a platform and open APIs ensuring integration into European data spaces.
EAiCCI’s ambition is to transform Europe’s CCI by fostering AI literacy rooted in European values, developing technologies for human-centric artistic expression, and empowering stakeholders to shape innovation. In the long term, it will establish transparent, sovereign and democratic AI alternatives that counterbalance non-European big tech and safeguard cultural diversity.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.2 - Cultural Heritage
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2025-01
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14482 Potsdam Babelsberg
Germany
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