The research council have announced the first step of the AI centre call: https://www.forskningsradet.no/forskningspolitikk-strategi/ltp/kunstig-intelligens/
The research council strongly encourage collaboration between institutions.
The University of Stavanger has the ambition of applying for a Centre for Application driven AI with focus on the following three main topics: energy, health, and education. We see this as relevant for all three tracks in the call; technology, innovation, and societal consequences. We are also open to be partner on some of these topics, and other topics where we are research active.
We believe that UiS has a strong foundation in these application areas – and we are welcoming other research institutions, industry and public sector with overlapping research interests to come together to plan for collaboration.
The workshop will be hybrid. We will welcome physical participants, but also make sure you can participate from remote, both as a speaker and for the discussion.
Date and time: 23.04.2024, 13.00 - 16.00
Place: University of Stavanger and online, details will be provided for registered participants
Objective:
Discuss research challenges in application driven AI research for the three topics, including possible crossover topics like information retrieval. Identify collaboration potential for one (or more) AI research centre.
Agenda:
- Short introduction by UiS
- discussion “Centre for application driven AI research”
- Topic presentations and discussions
- Energy
- Health
- Education and learning
- The way forward
Details will be sent to participants closer to the meeting.
Sign up here:
We invite you to register for the workshop through this link, before 16.04.24. If you want to give a 10 minutes presentation, please indicate so in the registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/2zKvPZv2NC?origin=lprLink
About UiS and SAIL:
The Stavanger region, and the University of Stavanger, is renowned for its research, education and innovation in the energy sector. Health technology and AI in health is another area where UiS can show long lasting activities and collaborations with both industry and public sector. The Norwegian reading centre at UiS is both a leading research centre and a national education centre, in addition we have risk and management and societal safety as one of the pillars. We have a strong research group in information retrieval, which we believe is an example of technologies relevant for many applications. Stavanger AI Lab (SAIL) is a research network connecting the AI research groups at UiS with industry and public sector. https://www.uis.no/nb/forskning/stavanger-ai-lab
For questions: tom.ryen@uis.no / kjersti.engan@uis.no / alvaro.f.quilez@uis.no