Técnico ULisboa’s Research Unit attracts €27.2 million to set an excellence laboratory in Artificial Intelligence

The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Research and Development (INESC-ID), a research unit affiliated with Técnico of the University of Lisbon, secured total funding of €27.2 million for the establishment of the Sustainable Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), a new Center of Excellence dedicated to sustainable and reliable Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The team responsible for this application includes Arlindo Oliveira, Inês Lynce and Rodrigo Rodrigues, professors at Técnico and researchers at INESC-ID. 

This nationally led project will be conducted in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. The researchers of Tecnico will be involved in investigation and innovation activities in areas such as explainability and reasoning in AI systems, computational sustainability and the safe usage of these technologies.

Within the scope of advanced training, this project also foresees the creation of a dual doctoral programme in Artificial Intelligence, offered by Ténico and the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität, as well as the connection to the industry, through collaborative projects, the creation of a “Living Lab”, and of technology transfer mechanisms.

The project has received total funding of €27.2 million under the Horizon Europe programme, through the initiative Teaming for Excellence. This amount includes a €13 million grant from the European Union, matched with €14.2 million from national funding. 

In the same edition of this competition, Portugal secured European funding for six research centres, a total of €81 million. National applications account for approximately 30% of the indicative funding available, in a call that received 64 proposals.

Source: Técnico Ulisboa