Project description
Facilitating cooperation for European AI-enabled scientific research
Advances in AI are creating new opportunities for scientific discovery, but access to AI technologies, data, computing resources, and research infrastructures remains uneven across Europe. The EU-funded SCIANCE project aims to establish the foundations of the Resource for AI Science in Europe (RAISE), a European coordination initiative designed to facilitate the integration of AI into scientific research. By bringing together research infrastructures, scientific organisations, and AI centres of excellence, SCIANCE will develop a strategic research and innovation agenda identifying key challenges and priorities for AI-enabled science. The project will support collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capacity building, thereby strengthening Europe’s AI-in-science ecosystem and enabling more accessible, trustworthy, and collaborative AI-driven research.
Objective
SCIANCE is a European coordination initiative establishing the foundations for the Resource for AI Science in Europe (RAISE). The project promotes interdisciplinary collaboration to integrate AI into scientific research by enabling streamlined access to trustworthy data repositories, computing resources, and research infrastructures across Europe.
Bringing together leading research infrastructures, scientific organisations, and AI centres of excellence, SCIANCE develops a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) through an iterative co-creation process. Building on a comprehensive AI-in-science landscape analysis, the SRIA identifies long-term research challenges where AI can accelerate discovery and defines cross-domain AI research and innovation priorities, focusing on open, trustworthy, and frugal AI methods for science. A roadmap for infrastructure upgrades and cooperation mechanisms supports its implementation, translating scientific research and innovation priorities into coordinated action.
To consolidate the European AI-in-science ecosystem, SCIANCE pilots the RAISE Secretariat, supported by the RAISE Digital Hub, community-building events at annual AIS Summits, and the RAISE Academy, providing a continuous framework for engagement, capacity building, knowledge sharing, and cross-domain collaborations. By combining scientific domain expertise with AI research and infrastructure knowledge, SCIANCE delivers robust, evidence-based guidance that is scientifically credible and strategically aligned with European Commission objectives, laying the foundations for future collaborative, AI-enabled science in Europe.
Keywords
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.4.3 - Emerging enabling technologies
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL4-2025-01
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67080 Strasbourg Cedex
France
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