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We hope this letter finds you well
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While most of Europe is in lockdown and all physical workshops are being cancelled or postponed, more and more organisers explore and exploit various virtual meeting forms. There has been a significant increase in AI related webinars and online workshops. Below we list some suggestions, and we’re happy to hear from you if want us to include anything on the list.
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Both the national and European research councils are trying to alleviate the situation with increased flexibility and new calls to stimulate both research in directly pandemic-related research but also longer term research and innovation for industry.
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EUROPEAN NETWORKS AND COLLABORATION PLATFORMS
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CLAIRE has several national offices and one of them is the CLAIRE office Norway/Nordics (contact email office-norway@claire-ai.org). The main goal of the CLAIRE office in Norway is to help all Norwegian AI researchers to engage in AI research activities and collaborations across Europe through networking, project application (EU funded), innovation and industry cooperation.
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AI4EU have launched their collaboration platform to be used by everyone in Europe, not just members. It is thought to be a tool for collaboration between AI researchers, developers and companies, and the goal is that it will become a one-stop-shop for European AI resources of high maturity and quality. In order to avoid garbage publications (including codes, data etc.), there is a scoring and rating system, and while the portal is open for everyone you have to register to use it.
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REPORTS
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The beginning of a Strategic Agenda for a European AI Public Private Partnership
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In the beginning of June euRobotics and BDVA (the Big Data Value Association) published a joint Strategic Agenda for a European AI Public Private Partnership (PPP). The objective of strategic agenda is to bring together the stakeholders from the European AI Innovation Ecosystem to achieve a consensus on the way forward in advancing AI in Europe developing strong foundations for a European Public-Private Partnership on AI.
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- Measures that will streamline research, foster collaboration between Member States and increase investment into AI development and deployment;
- Policy options for a future EU regulatory framework that would determine the types of legal requirements that would apply to relevant actors, with a particular focus on high-risk applications.
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AI Watch - Defining Artificial Intelligence
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The AI Watch initiative by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission monitors European Union’s industrial, technological and research capacity in AI; AI-related policy initiatives in the Member States; uptake and technical developments of AI; and AI impact. They have recently released a report with proposals for taxonomy and keywords for AI to be used for this monitoring.
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IP and Artificial Intelligence: New Report by Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
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ONLINE EVENTS AND WEBINARS
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The Research Council of Norway offers several workshops (online) for those considering applying for Horizon 2020 (registration required):
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PHYSICAL EVENTS
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SAVE THE DATA AND AWAIT THE SITUATION
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ABOUT NAINE
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NAINE spans across academia and industry, research and application. In line with the European Commission, we use the expression AI in the broadest context covering machine learning, deep learning, hybrid analytics, learning based control systems, optimisation etc. At the moment, EU does not have an overarching programme for "everything AI". Instead, AI is covered by multiple initiatives in and alongside the EU framework, both in the running H2020, Horizon Europe, and the coming Digital Europe Programme for 2021. NAINE is monitoring selected calls and activities, forwarding information and coordinating hearings for calls together with the Research Council of Norway. In addition, we will organize two workshops yearly with information about relevant activities and calls as well as networking opportunities.
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The main purpose of the NAINE network is to contribute to increased number of EU proposals within AI involving Norwegian institutions. NAINE is open for everyone in Norway interested in AI and national and European collaboration.
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The core group in NAINE is:
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Anne Marthine Rustad – SINTEF Digital
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Signe Riemer-Sørensen – SINTEF Digital
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Anders Løland – Norsk Regnesentral
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Søren Kragholm – Universitetet i Agder
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Jim Tørresen – Universitetet i Oslo
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