Tag: AI

  • FAME: Federated decentralized trusted dAta Marketplace for Embedded finance

    FAME: Federated decentralized trusted dAta Marketplace for Embedded finance

    January 1, 2023 @ 8:00 am – December 31, 2025 @ 5:00 pm CET

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    FAME. “FAME.” Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.fame-horizon.eu.

    FAME is a joint effort of world-class experts in data management, data technologies, the data economy, and digital finance, aiming to develop and launch to the global market a unique, trustworthy, energy-efficient, and secure federated data marketplace for Embedded Finance (EmFi).

    ​The FAME project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2023 Research and Innovation Programe under grant agreement nª 101092639. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Horizon Europe. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

    Marketplace

    The FAME Federated Data Marketplace for Embedded Finance is a Data Space, according to the definition of the EU, customized for buying and selling federated data assets in the financial sector.

    Accessible through a unified entry point, the Marketplace allows for secure data access, sharing, trading and analysis through FAME’s analytical tools for both finance and non-finance organizations, tech and non-tech users, and other end-users.

    Why FAME?

    Modern data marketplaces are transforming how data assets are shared, traded, and utilized. Recent European initiatives have made significant strides, particularly in enhancing data monetization, regulatory compliance, and secure data exchange. However, existing centralized marketplaces face challenges that limit broader participation and accessibility. Notable limitations include complex data discovery processes, limited transparency in value-based data monetization, and insufficient integration of trusted, energy-efficient analytics. Addressing these gaps can unlock new data-driven applications in sectors like finance, retail, and smart cities, empowering innovative services that seamlessly integrate financial data. That is where FAME comes in.

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  • Data Space for Smart and Sustainable Communities

    Data Space for Smart and Sustainable Communities

    October 1, 2023 @ 8:00 am – September 30, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CEST

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    European data space for smart communities (DS4SSCC-DEP). “DS4SSCC”. Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.ds4sscc.eu/home.

    DS4SSCC–DEP is funded by the European Union Digital Europe Work Programme 2021-2022 under Grant Agreement No. 101123342. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.

    The European Data Space for Smart Communities (DS4SSCC-DEP) initiative is a pivotal deployment following the preparatory action for a Data Space for Sustainable and Smart Cities and Communities (DS4SSCC). 

    Emphasising sustainability aspects and diversity in communities, DS4SSCC developed a multi-stakeholder data governance scheme, created a blueprint for the European DS4SSCC, delivered priority datasets, and developed a roadmap towards a mature DS4SSCC.

    DS4SSCC-DEP’s vision revolves around creating a well-governed federated territorial, place-based data space for smart communities available for developers and infrastructure providers, aligning with the prospects outlined in Europe’s Digital Decade objectives. This approach distinguishes itself from sectoral data spaces by encompassing diverse domains, and underpinning governance across all levels of society.

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    Open & Agile Smart Cities and Communities (OASC)

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  • EBRAINS: A Research Infrastructure to Advance Neuroscience and Brain Health

    EBRAINS: A Research Infrastructure to Advance Neuroscience and Brain Health

    September 1, 2022 @ 8:00 am – December 31, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CEST

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    EBRAINS. “EBRAINS.” Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.ebrains.eu.

    EBRAINS is an international non-profit association (AISBL), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. It is made up of 8 Full Members and 35 Associate Members. The Research Infrastructure is organised around a central hub that coordinates a pan-European network of services delivered through National Nodes. EBRAINS is governed by three bodies, the General Assembly, the Governing Board and the Management Board. A National Node Board gathers Node representatives. EBRAINS also has two Advisory Committees, the Science and Technology one and the Ethics and Society one which will soon be instated. EBRAINS is funded by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme.

    A state-of-the-art ecosystem for neuroscience

    EBRAINS is on a mission to revolutionise how neuroscience is conducted. The digital ecosystem that we provide enables advances in brain research that translate to innovations in neuroscience, healthcare and technology.

    Towards a European Brain Partnership to accelerate scientific, technological, and societal needs.

    EBRAINS’ ambition is to enable breakthroughs in different areas of brain science. We are proud to be part of several game-changing projects and initiatives, in which we join forces with leading institutions to achieve tangible results and outcomes. If you’re interested in working with us on specific projects, different possibilities exist. Don’t hesitate to contact us for more information.

    EBRAINS is organised around a central hub that coordinates a pan-European network of services that are delivered through national nodes.

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  • AI-Mind: Artificial Intelligence for Dementia Prevention

    AI-Mind: Artificial Intelligence for Dementia Prevention

    March 1, 2021 @ 8:00 am – February 28, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CET

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    Accelopment Schweiz AG. “AI-Mind”. Accessed 13.08.2025. https://www.ai-mind.eu.

    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964220. This website reflects only the author’s view and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

    What is the challenge?

    There are over 50 million people worldwide living with dementia and by 2030 this number is expected to reach 82 million.

    The ageing brain becomes vulnerable to decline and keeping independency in daily life can become a challenge for the elderly. People with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), an intermediate condition between normal brain ageing and dementia, may develop dementia in the future.

    There is an urgent need for early risk assessment and intervention. Current practices with time-consuming patient investigations focus on late symptoms management  due to a lack of diagnostic tools. This causes numerous implications in terms of familial, medical and care costs.

    With AI-Mind we aim to reduce the disease’s burden by developing novel, AI-based tools to support healthcare professionals in their diagnosis and offering timely interventions to patients.

    At the heart of AI-Mind is our research study, that

    Takes place in Norway, Finland, Italy and Spain and will involve 1,000 participants. 

    Helps to develop and validate artificial intelligence (AI) based tools to predict who is likely to develop dementia.

    The AI-Mind project aims to ease the burden of dementia by creating innovative, AI-driven tools that assist healthcare professionals in predicting dementia risks in patients affected by mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Most dementia treatments focus on managing symptoms once they appear, leaving little room for early prevention. AI-Mind seeks to transform this process by replacing complex and inefficient screening methods with advanced, automated tools powered by AI. These tools will address the critical need for early and precise diagnosis, allowing doctors to identify patients at high risk of developing dementia with greater confidence.

    Oslo University Hospital

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  • enRichMyData

    enRichMyData

    October 21, 2022 @ 8:00 am – September 30, 2025 @ 5:00 pm CEST

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    enRichMyData. “enRichMyData.” Accessed 13.08.2025. https://enrichmydata.eu.

    enRichMyData develops a novel paradigm for building rich, high-quality and valuable datasets to feed Big Data Analytics and AI applications. It has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101070284.

    The enRichMyData project is coordinated by SINTEF (Norway), one of European’s largest independent research organisations. The project partners include companies such as Philips (The Netherlands) and Bosch (Germany), dedicated to engineering and manufacturing; Speed Network (Estonia), a provider of procurement data; JOT Internet Media (Spain), a digital marketing company; CS Group (Romania), a software service company; Expert AI (Italy), a technology company specializing in natural language understanding; and Ontotext (Bulgaria), a semantic technology company. They will have the full support of the research partners that, in addition to SINTEF, include the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy), Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), GATE Institute (Bulgaria), and BGRIMM Technology Group (China).

    enRichMyData delivers an open software toolbox – the enRichMyData toolbox – comprising practical, robust and scalable components to support organizations in enriching their data with reference data they may have limited knowledge of, as well as supporting data providers in making their data reusable and available in data enrichment processes.

    The toolbox lowers the technological entry barriers by providing support for the definition of highly scalable and replicable data enrichment pipelines through a set of tools and infrastructure services related to capabilities needed during the lifecycle of enrichment pipelines. The toolbox makes the data enrichment process accessible to a broader set of stakeholders by reducing the required expertise and enhancing the tool support level.

    Empower AI-driven business products and services

    h-quality, rich and meaningful data are crucial to successfully implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics (BDA) solutions. Delivering required data to feed into AI and BDA models is costly, difficult, and often limited in data and skill availability. It is well known that up to 80% of the effort spent in AI and BDA projects is dedicated to ensuring data is fit for purpose. Activities are required to discover, understand, select, clean, transform, and integrate data from a variety of sources in such a way that data can be fed into the modelling phase. Such activities result in enriched data, eventually improving the quality of downstream BDA and AI applications. The data enrichment process is implemented by specifying, deploying, and executing data enrichment pipelines over data that can be structured, semi-structured and unstructured, in large amounts, and from static or streaming sources. While techniques exist to cover different enrichment operations such as data cleaning, linking, feature extraction, classification and semantic annotation, etc., the lack of comprehensive approaches and established tools dedicated to data enrichment makes the definition, implementation, and operation of enrichment pipelines difficult for too many organizations willing to improve their BDA and AI applications.

    The overall vision of the enRichMyData project is to create a novel paradigm for building rich, high-quality, valuable, and FAIR-compliant datasets to feed downstream BDA and AI applications in the context of data-sharing ecosystems, such as data spaces. The paradigm facilitates the specification and execution of data enrichment pipelines, focusing on supporting various data enrichment operations. enRichMyData makes this easily accessible to a wide set of large and small organizations that encounter difficulties in delivering suitable data to feed their BDA and AI solutions due to the lack of usable tools/expertise for the cost-effective management of data enrichment pipelines.

    SINTEF

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  • ENFIELD: European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI

    ENFIELD: European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI

    September 1, 2023 @ 8:00 am – August 30, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CEST

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    NTNU. “ENFIELD”. Accessed 13.08.2025. https://enfield-project.eu.

    ENFIELD is set to establish a distinctive European Center of Excellence focused on advancing fundamental research in Green, Adaptive, Human-Centric, and Trustworthy AI and applied research within key sectors like Energy, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Space. 
     
    Promoted by 30 leading research institutions, businesses, and public sector representatives from 18 countries, the project builds a vibrant AI community of the brightest minds from across Europe. 
     
    ENFIELD network will deliver over 75 unique AI solutions, 180 high-impact publications, strategic documents and extensive outreach efforts. 

    Our Mission

    Our goal is to develop AI solutions that address challenges in sectors such as healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and space, while promoting sustainability and ethics. 

    The ENFIELD Project is co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or DG CNECT. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.  The University of Nottingham’s participation in the Horizon Europe Project ENFIELD is supported by UKRI grant number 10094603. 

    NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

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  • IMS Commercialisation

    IMS Commercialisation

    June 18, 2020 @ 8:00 am – June 1, 2021 @ 5:00 pm CEST

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    The IMS commercialisation project was managed by an affiliated company that VentureNet acquired in 2023. The project was co-financed by the Norwegian development bank, Innovation Norway.

    The project developed a prototype of an Innovation Management System, which provided the technical foundation and building blocks for VentureNet’s Information Management System (IMS) and secure data exchange platform.

    Among the unique and groundbreaking IMS features are dynamic data enrichment capabilities with human-in-the-loop (HITL) models, low-code/no-code development functionality, and container technology for rapid deployment of digital applications, which can be customized for specific customer needs at a fraction of the time and cost of comparable application development platforms.

    Furthermore, digital applications that are developed by VentureNet can be integrated seamlessly with VentureNet’s marketplace to enable secure data exchange in digital marketplaces that adhere to EU data privacy regulations and common standards for International Data Spaces, Cybersecurity, Safety, Data Governance, Interoperability, and Cyber Resilience.

    Contact us to learn more about the IMS and how your organisation or region can leverage the IMS to manage your data, develop data-driven systems with trustworthy AI, build a virtual innovation ecosystem with resilient digital supply chains and access to secure international digital marketplaces.

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  • Norwegian Digital Innovation Ecosystem Launch: Development of Critical Digital Infrastructure in Norway

    Norwegian Digital Innovation Ecosystem Launch: Development of Critical Digital Infrastructure in Norway

    June 6, 2024 @ 9:30 am – 5:30 pm CEST

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    The launch event for the Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem brought together stakeholders from leading research, innovation, public and private sectors to discuss development of next-generation digital infrastructure in Norway.

    To ensure a well-functioning and competitive digital future for Norway and the Nordic region, it is crucial that business and the public sector actively contribute to the development of our digital infrastructure. Join an important initiative by taking part in the work to:
    • Create value through data sharing and digital trust.
    • Build a robust and secure digital infrastructure.
    • Develop new and innovative technologies.

    In connection with the rapid development of important national initiatives with tight deadlines, we have had the opportunity to discuss development plans with Ulrich Ahle, CEO of Gaia-X, a European initiative for secure digital infrastructure, who is visiting Hamar on June 6. Ahle will participate in the opening of a national center for data-driven innovation that includes a Nordic Gaia-X hub and Fiware iHub.

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    VentureNet

    Hamar Kulturhus

    Torggata 100
    Hamar, Innlandet 2317 Norway     + Google Map
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  • Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem

    Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem

    May 22, 2024 @ 8:00 am – December 1, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CEST

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    The Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem (NDIE) is an ongoing business network development initiative to support development of trustworthy systems and infra- structure in critical sectors by connecting public and private sectors and research institutions and supporting project establishment.

    The project was initiated in 2024 and managed by Klosser Innovasjon AS and VentureNet AS in collaboration with the Norwegian Computing Center (NR), the Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (SFI NORCICS), the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), and Smart Innovation Norway, with financial support from Innlandet County in Norway.

    Within 5 months of the project’s start, NDIE organised and executed 9 successful international events, including some of Norway’s first seminars and webinars on European Data Spaces and a trailblazing 2-day Nordic Matchmaking Event at DNV Headquarters and NR Headquarters in Oslo.

    Some of the speakers included representatives from the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency, Sykehuspartner, Det Norske Veritas, DNV-Nixu, FICEC, F-Secure, Defendable, Business Finland, the City of Wien in Austria, Gaia-X, and FIWARE.

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    VentureNet

  • Norwegian-Finnish Workshop and Matchmaking Event: The Role of Cybersecurity in Digital Resilience

    Norwegian-Finnish Workshop and Matchmaking Event: The Role of Cybersecurity in Digital Resilience

    November 18, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – November 19, 2024 @ 5:00 pm CET

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    This event aimed to strengthen collaboration on cybersecurity and digital resilience initiatives between industry, research and public sectors in Norway and Finland.

    Organized in collaboration with the Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (SFI NORCICS), the Norwegian Cybersecurity Cluster (NCC), the Finnish Center of Expertise for Cybersecurity (FICEC), North European Cybersecurity Cluster (NECC), University of Jyväskyla, DNV Norway and Finland, NR, NTNU, the Norwegian Ecosystem for Secure IT-OT Integration (NESIOT), and the Nordic Digital Innovation Ecosystem (NDIE).

    One of the outcomes of this 2-day event was the establishment of the Nordic European Cyber Days 2025 conference in collaboration with the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), the North European Cybersecurity Cluster (NECC) and all 8 Nordic and Baltic National Coordination Centers for Cybersecurity Research and Innovation (NCCs).

    Download the brochure to see the list of speakers and partners.

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    Hamar Kulturhus

    Torggata 100
    Hamar, Innlandet 2317 Norway     + Google Map
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