Project description
Training tomorrow's scientists
Twenty-six PhD students will benefit from an innovative, interdisciplinary and intersectoral PhD programme created by the French public university Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. They will be trained in their main discipline (engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, and human and social sciences) and exposed to the latest AI technologies and machine learning as applied in their field. The EU-funded project AI4theSciences has set up this programme to contribute to the creation of an EU AI pool of excellence. The programme will provide the students with a supportive environment to be the scientists of tomorrow. It will offer research projects proposed by worldwide renowned research departments, in cooperation with business partners.
Objective
"""Artificial Intelligence for the Sciences” (AI4theSciences) is an innovative, interdisciplinary and intersectoral PhD programme. It aims at training a new generation of researchers at the highest academic level in their main discipline (engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, human and social sciences) and mastering the latest technologies in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning as applied in their own field.
It will contribute to create an EU AI pool of excellence to tackle the major global challenges we are facing today and to answer to international competition. Both in the private and in academia, there is a lack of scientists capable of running interdisciplinary projects involving both a deep knowledge of a specific application field and a good knowledge of AI techniques.
AI4theSciences programme will recruit 26 PhD students through qualitative HR processes, based on equal opportunities and excellence. They will benefit from a supportive environment to be the scientists of tomorrow. PSL will offer breakthrough research projects proposed by our worldwide renowned research departments, in cooperation with our business partners, plus a strong partnership for technological innovation with the venture capital firm Elaia Partners, dedicated trainings in AI and Machine Learning, and international academic networks. They will be mentored by a pair of PhD supervisors, one specialised in AI and the other specialised in the application field, plus a peer sponsor. AI4theSciences programme will accelerate the emerging “AI PSL Graduate Transverse Program”. Creative outreach events will favor participatory and open science to foster AI4theSciences’s impacts on policy makers as well as civil and economic society making AI accountable.
Paris Sciences et Lettres is a unique university of excellence to train this new generation, with 19 schools members pushing the boundaries of a wide spectrum of research areas (45th in 2020 THE ranking)."
Keywords
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
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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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
MAIN PROGRAMME
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H2020-EU.1.3.4. - Increasing structural impact by co-funding activities
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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.
MSCA-COFUND - Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-COFUND-2019
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75006 Paris
France
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