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15.11.2020 | Community
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Kick-off meeting of the first European Network of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Centres
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.
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Official launch of ELLIS Units
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.
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EU member meeting for start of Horizon Europe Programme 2021
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 association of third countries. The goal is to pass the Programme till the end of this year.
In contrast to the predecessor programme “Horizon 2020” the European Innovation Council (EIC) will now be institutionalised with the goal to support market building innovations. Also, with “Horizon Europe” a “Strategic Planning Process” and “Missions” are being introduced. The Strategic Planning Process will determine the most important political and strategic priorities till 2024 with a special focus on ecological and digital transformations as well as the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. Currently five Mission areas have been defined concerning strategies for climate change, cancer, healthy oceans, climate neutral intelligent cities and healthy soil and food. Notably, no missions explicitly targeting digital challenges have been named so far.
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German Government’s AI programme halting: almost none of the 100 announced AI professorships appointed
A query of the Green Party in the German Bundestag regarding the status of the 100 announced new AI professorships reveals a faltering implementation of the AI strategy. According to the Handelsblatt the ministry listed 28 newly created AI professorships in an answer to the query. However, 2 of these are funded by Northrine-Westphalian bodies and—significantly—according to Anna Christmann, speaker for innovation and technology of the Green party, most of the listed professorships were funded by other programmes. A new programme that was created within the scope of the AI initiative was the AI-professorship programme of the Humboldt Foundation which achieved so far 2 new AI-professorships. Many of the listed professorships belonged to the Heisenberg-Programme of the DFG which does not belong to the AI programme of the German government.
This observation is in line with the fact that the BMBF has so far published no strategy how the announced 3 + 2 billion € for AI till 2025 will be invested. Similarly, from the 60 billion € that were announced as part of the Measures for the Future of the Innovation Country Germany for education, research and innovation, measures for only about 20 billion € have so far been announced by the BMBF.
While this may be a consequence of the Corona Pandemie which allocates also political resources and hinders translation processes of political decisions it should raise public attention. Already the Corona Crisis has obscured the public awareness and discussion of the fact that the public share of funding of research and innovation in Germany [1] has been in the decline almost continuously over the last decades and that the EU in its historical EU-Deal in July 2020 has effectively shortened the budget for Horizon Europe, the European research and innovation programme, to 81 billion € for 2021–2027, including the resources for fighting Corona. In 2018 the EU had suggested a budget of 94 billion €—which means that the research and innovation budget of the EU has effectively been shortened by about 14% since the plans from 2018.
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German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) initiates action plan for Research Data
The BMBF brings its action plan for research data into the digital Cabinet of the German government. The goal is to make research data accessible for the state, economy, research and society. Therefore, all measures and initiatives of the BMBF to this end will be bundled under the action plan Research Data.