The AI4Europe project acts as the “enabling engine” behind the AI-on-Demand (AIoD) Platform, which aims to make AIoD a renowned channel for AI-related knowledge, services, and tools.

Europe is implementing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy that seeks to create a research environment characterised by scientific excellence and consistent with the fundamental ethical values of its citizens. Part of this strategy foresees the consolidation of ongoing research activities through the development of the AI on-Demand Platform that will act as a community resource for the research community, facilitating experimentation, knowledge sharing and the development of state-of-the-art solutions and technologies. AI4Europe builds on the work of AI4EU and multiple supporting projects (ICT-48/ICT-49), creating an open, impartial, and collaborative Platform, built by the European research community according to their needs.

Equipped with the necessary hardware, the Platform will offer interoperable services, data, and tools from several related communities and provide solutions to facilitate research productivity, reproducibility, and collaboration. AI4Europe will establish and support mechanisms to foster exchange between academia and industry and ensure the Platform reaches out to and engages with the next generation of researchers and those in widening countries. The project will develop and implement a business model that will ensure the long-term technical and financial structures providing sustainability for the Platform beyond the lifetime of the project. AI4Europe will support the community to create a tool that will help position Europe as the place where the very best AI research is conducted.

The goal is that the AIoD Platform becomes a community-driven tool to boost AI research that scientists can deploy, customise, and extend, and that is both open and easily accessible as it distributes shared AI resources.

The project is comprised of over 20 different institutions from all over Europe and is coordinated by University College Cork (UCC), Ireland.

Alan M. Sears is the project leader at Leiden University. eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies supports the project and platform by identifying and addressing legal and ethical issues that arise during the development of the AIoD platform and its community.

More information can be found about the platform and the project on this website.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme under the open call HORIZON-CL4-2021-HUMAN-01-02 - European coordination, awareness, standardisation & adoption of trustworthy European AI, Data and Robotics (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) (CSA) (Grant Agreement No. 101070000)