Press Release: ELIAS Publishes Strategic Research Agenda: Building Europe’s Pathways to Responsible and Sustainable AI.

Join Europe’s leading AI research network! The ELLIS PhD Program offers world-class mentorship, interdisciplinary research, and international exchanges in machine learning and related fields.

Join the ELIAS AI-Based Modeling for Energy-Efficient Buildings Challenge to build cutting-edge Machine Learning (ML) methods for modeling
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems of real buildings, and optimising their energy efficiency. Work with real-world building data and compete on Kaggle. Open to all -academics, startups, and professionals.

At the workshop on Foundation Models, researchers and innovators explored the future of large-scale AI systems like GPT-4 and CLIP. The event highlighted Europe’s push for open, multilingual, and ethically aligned alternatives, featuring models such as NeoBabel, OpenCLIP, and TabPFN. With a focus on transparency, inclusion, and sovereignty, the workshop showed that Europe is actively shaping the next generation of AI.

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The AI for Trade Global Challenge is an international competition calling on data scientists, economists, and machine learning experts to reimagine the future of global trade forecasting. Participants will develop predictive models to forecast the trade flows of the United States and China for October 2025—specifically, estimating dollar trade values for the top 200 exports and imports (at the HS4 product level) with the top 20 trading partners.

ELLIS is seeking nominations for outstanding AI researchers—senior Fellows and early-career Scholars—shaping Europe’s AI future. Fellowships, supported by the ELIAS project, recognize scientific excellence, societal impact, and community engagement. Deadline: 30 September 2025.

Press Release – ELIAS announces the winners of its first Open Call, funding four innovative AI projects tackling key sustainability challenges across Europe. These projects will receive support to develop solutions for a greener, fairer future.

The European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability (ELIAS) is shaping the next generation of AI researchers—through the ELLIS PhD Program—by uniting cutting-edge technical training with ethical responsibility and a focus on sustainable impact.

From 21 to 23 May 2025, the ELIAS project was prominently featured at the inaugural GITEX Europe in Berlin, joining forces with the IRCAI, International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO, to spotlight the intersection of Responsible AI and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).