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1. Kick-off meeting of the first European Network of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Centres https: //ec.europa .eu/digita l-single -market /en/news/towar ds-vibrant-european-network-ai-excellence
The first European Network of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Centres held a kick-off meeting at begin of October consisting of five projects which have been selected following a call launched in July 2019 to establish a common approach, vision and identity for the European AI ecosystem. The project AI4Media focuses on advancing AI to serve media to yield trustworthy AI as a beneficial technology in the service of society and media based on European values and ethics. The project ELISE focuses on different kinds of reasoning and types of data applicable for almost all sectors of science and industry, while being aware of data safety and security, and striving for explainable and trustworthy outcomes. The HumanE-AI-Net project targets to support technologies for human-level interaction, by providing new abilities to perceive and understand complex phenomena, to individually and collectively solve problems, and to empower individuals with new abilities for creativity and experience. The TAILOR project has set its goal towards building an academic-public-industrial research network to provide the scientific basis for Trustworthy AI, combining learning, optimization and reasoning to produce AI systems that incorporate safeguards for safety, transparency and respect for human agency and expectations. Finally, the coordination and support action VISION fosters exchange between the selected projects and other relevant initiatives to overcome fragmentation in the European AI community. 2. Official launch of ELLIS Units https://ellis.eu/news/official-launch-of-ellis-units-15thof-september-2020
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) has officially launched its 30 ELLIS research units on Tuesday, September 15. Since the first 17 units were announced in December 2019, the ELLIS
initiative has added another 13 units at research institutions across Europe. While an in-person launch was initially planned in spring at the Royal Society in London, the event was postponed as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic and has now taken place online with the opportunity to join via livestreaming. 3. EU member meeting for start of Horizon Europe Programme 2021 https://www.bmbf.de/de/karliczek-eu-mitgliedsst aate n-erzielen-einigung-zu-horizont-europa---wichtiger12628.html
The EU member states had a meeting in the beginning of October for the upcoming Horizon Europe Programme (2021–2027). Remaining issues to be negotiated concern synergies with other EU programmes, budgeting through the rebuilding measure “Next Generation EU”, the fragmentation of the Horizon Europe Budget in the individual program areas and international collaboration as well as the
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