European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability

ELIAS aims at establishing Europe as a leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research that drives sustainable innovation and economic development.

We will create a Network of Excellence connecting researchers in academia with practitioners in the industry to differentiate Europe as a region where AI research builds towards a sustainable long-term future for our planet, contributes to a cohesive society, and respects individual preferences and rights.

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ELIAS USE CASES

UC1: AI for Building Optimisation

Cost reduction by improving the energy consumption through smart control systems which requires both control algorithms and prediction of actual consumption based on historical patterns and metadata, such as meteorological intormation.

UC2: AI for Monitoring the Virtual Infrastructure

Identifying cyber-attacks targeting the microservices architecture in an unsupervised and robust manner as anomalies

UC3: Responsible, User-centric Advertising

Addressing the challenges of responsible use of AI in online advertising, where traditional optimisation metrics focus on click-through and conversation rates.

UC4: Mitigating misinformed migrant perception in EU

Supporting migrants, refugees and students’ counter-narrative ideation and definition, providing support in verifying information, access to reliable sources, and describing how fake news spreads in social media.

UC5: AI for Forecasting of Vegetation State

Studying AI-based predictions of the effects of climate extremes on ecosystems, which can then be translated into crop harvest, forest health and water balance forecasts.

UC6: Open Materials Discovery Project

Developing AI methods that can (1) predict the structure of new materials from unrelaxed structures (2) predict target properties from unrelaxed structures and ultimately to (3) identify the structure that optimises a target property.

Latest News & Updates

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications 2024

The ELLIS PhD program is a key pillar of the ELLIS initiative whose goal is to foster and educate the best talent in machine learning and related research areas by pairing outstanding students with leading academic and industrial researchers in Europe.

Apply by November 15, 2024, to join the ELLIS PhD Program in 2025

Over 100 PhD students from across Europe gather in Paris for this year’s ELLIS Doctoral Symposium

Five days of networking and insightful exchanges on the latest machine learning research: Paris was the location of this year’s ELLIS Doctoral Symposium (EDS) under the theme of ‘AI and Sustainability’.

Sciencepreneurship Summer School 2024 on Sustainability & AI: Empowering Entrepreneurial Innovators

The Sciencepreneurship Summer School: Sustainability & AI took place from April 29 to May 3, 2024, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Its aim was to help participants turn scientific innovations into real-world businesses. The summer school focused on addressing important...

ELIAS Consortium held a successful 3rd project meeting in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands - March 20-21, 2024 The ELIAS Consortium achieved a significant milestone as it convened for its 3rd project meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hosted by the University of Amsterdam, this gathering brought together project partners from various...
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AAAI Bridge Programme: Collaborative AI and Modelling of Humans

On February 21, 2024, the AAAI Bridge Program convened at the Vancouver Convention Centre to explore the intersection of AI and human modelling in an initiative aimed at fostering collaboration between artificial intelligence (AI) systems and human users.

2024 Sciencepreneurship Summer School: Sustainability & AI

Sciencepreneurship Summer School 2024: Sustainability & AI

Rolling admissions - deadline March 22, 2024April 29 - May 3, 2024 ― Lausanne, Switzerland A week-long summer school of talks, workshops, and socials on turning scientific innovation into societal impact through entrepreneurship. accomodation included | travel grants...

ELIAS Consortium Member Nuria Oliver Joins International Scientific Expert Advisory Panel on Advanced AI Safety

Nuria Oliver, Director of ELLIS Alicante and Vice-President of ELLIS, has been selected to join an esteemed international advisory body tasked with providing expert insights for the "International Scientific Report on Advanced AI Safety." Representing Spain, Nuria...
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AIDA Semester Course : Statistical Methods for Machine Learning

The International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) invites you to attend the upcoming semester course by Prof. Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi: Statistical Methods for Machine Learning This is a course about the theoretical foundations of machine learning and the analysis of machine...
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Advancing AI Frontiers: Exploring Multimodal Foundation Models at ELLIS Workshop

ELIAS Consortium Members Engage in Cutting-Edge Exploration of Multimodal Foundation Models at ELLIS Workshop The ELIAS Project Coordinator Niculae Sebe and Consortium Member Cees Snoek, both directors of the ELLIS Program on Multimodal Learning Systems, lead...
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#Opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher in AI for Sustainability – University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Postdoctoral Researcher in AI for Sustainability at the University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab (AMLab) Duration: 2 years (starting winter 2024)The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in AI for sustainability. AI has a...

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ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications 2024

The ELLIS PhD program is a key pillar of the ELLIS initiative whose goal is to foster and educate the best talent in machine learning and related research areas by pairing outstanding students with leading academic and industrial researchers in Europe.

Apply by November 15, 2024, to join the ELLIS PhD Program in 2025

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IDEAHACK 2024

IDEAHACK is the first hackathon organized by IDEAS NCBR under the European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability (ELIAS) project. The mission of this event is to create a dynamic platform where business-minded individuals and scientists can connect, exchange ideas, and collaborate on solutions to real-world challenges. The focus is particularly on Artificial Intelligence (AI), with the aim of bridging the gap between science and entrepreneurship.

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ELLIS-VISMAC Winter School 2025

The scientific program will run from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday, featuring lectures by ELLIS Fellows and prominent researchers from academia and industry. The lectures will cover topics such as large-scale foundation models, self-supervised and multi-modal representation learning, multi-modal...

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