SCIANCE project kicks off: Shaping AI in Science, by Scientists, for Europe
This week, the SCIANCE project has its official kick-off meeting in Brussels, Belgium.
SCIANCE (AI in Science) will support the development of Resource for AI Science in Europe (RAISE) and coordinate AI-enabled scientific research across Europe through a bottom-up approach. The project mobilises leading European scientific organisations and research infrastructures across five pilot areas - fundamental physics and astronomy, materials science, life science, earth sciences, and social sciences and humanities - together with AI research centres and e-infrastructures. SCIANCE will identify AI-in-science research and innovation priorities and pilot the structure of the RAISE Secretariat for AI in science.
SCIANCE key outcomes include:
- a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for AI in Science
- an implementation roadmap for infrastructure upgrades
- and the RAISE Secretariat for AI in science, to support long-term collaboration, capacity building, and alignment with European policy objectives.
“SCIANCE represents a unique opportunity to coordinate AI-enabled science across Europe - connecting research communities, infrastructures and AI expertise in a way that truly reflects scientific priorities,” says Jonas L’Haridon, Project Coordinator, ESF.
The SCIANCE consortium includes 13 leading European organisations and research infrastructures: ESF, EGI Foundation, OpenAIRE AMKE, CNR, Euro-BioImaging ERIC, EMBL, CU, MU, UT-ITC, Nikhef, DFKI, SZTAKI, and BDVA.
As Work Package 4 Lead (Feasibility Assessment and Roadmap), EGI Foundation will ensure that infrastructure upgrade scenarios and cooperation mechanisms are realistic, actionable and aligned with the relevant stakeholder groups and roadmaps. The final result will be documented in the AI in Science Roadmap.
As WP8-WP9 Lead, (Communication, Engagement and Sustainability) we will lead project communication, dissemination and engagement activities, including the co-organisation of the annual AIS Summit, and we oversee the tasks dealing with the set up of the RAISE Secretariat for AI in Science, the stakeholder management and the RAISE Academy.
Information requests
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