The Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE) is a European organisation, created to strengthen
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...
(AI) and human-centred AI research and innovation, in Europe. CLAIRE is referred to as the world's largest network for artificial intelligence research.
CLAIRE was launched in 2018, with a vision document signed by over 550 experts in AI. The founders of CLAIRE are
Holger Hoos,
Philipp Slusallek and
Morten Irgens. CLAIRE aims to establish a network of Centres of Excellence in AI, across all of Europe, and a European AI Hub (or "Lighthouse Centre"), a new, central facility with state-of-the-art infrastructure similar to
CERN.
Headquartered i
The Hague CLAIRE has opened administrative offices i
SaarbrückenPragueRomeBrusselsOsloParis
an
Zürich
with further offices planned to open in 2022 and 2023.
Support
CLAIRE has the support of more than 4,000 people, representing the vast majority of Europe’s AI community, spanning academia and industry, research and innovation, including 2295 AI experts (PhD-level expertise in AI or equivalent) and 1126 supporters in industry.
Furthermore, nine advisory groups with 48 members from 18 countries have been established, covering all areas of AI, along with the topics of ethical, legal and social implications of AI.
The CLAIRE vision for excellence in European AI has received official letters of support from the governments of nine European countries, from over 30 scientific associations across all of Europe.
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HumanE AI
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Big Data Value AssociationeuRoboticsAI4EU
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Association for the Understanding of Artificial Intelligence
several European Union funded projects, and cooperates closely with ESA.
The CLAIRE Network
The CLAIRE Network consists of the Research, the Innovation and the Rising Researchers Networks and collectively creates the world‘s largest AI network of labs and institutions, companies and start-ups, and graduate students involved in AI research, that are committed to working together towards developing European sovereignty in trustworthy AI and fostering close links between non-profit research and impactful industrial applications.
Started in 2019
CLAIRE's Research Network
now consists of over 440 research groups and research institutions, covering jointly more than 25 000 employees in 37 countries.
The Innovation Network, launched in 2021, comprises companies, legal entities, and groups or units within these companies that develop or use Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods or technologies (for-profit), and consists of 12 members from 6 countries across Europe.
The Rising Researchers Network, launched in early 2022, The CLAIRE , Rising Researchers Network aims to gather graduate students, especially Ph.D. students, postdocs, and master students, involved in AI research, who believe in European excellence in AI and that ethical and human-centered AI should be the norm of AI research and development in the future.
Contributions
CLAIRE regularly provides feedback to the European Commission on matters pertaining to Artificial Intelligence including the CLAIRE's
Response to the European Commission White Paper on Artificial Intelligence – A European approach to excellence and trust
and the
Response to the European Commission’s Proposal for AI Regulation and 2021 Coordinated Plan on AI
.
Awards
On 30 September 2021, Prof. Holger Hoos, chair of the Board of Directors of CLAIRE, accepted on behalf of CLAIRE the Innovation Award for ground-breaking achievements in the research and development of AI, together with the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). The German AI Award (“Deutscher KI-Preis”), awarded by WELT, one of Germany's most widely read daily newspapers, is the one the largest awards of its kind in Europe.
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External links
Official website
Artificial intelligence associations
Organisations based in The Hague