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CIT UPC, at the fifth edition of the Open Innovation Forum
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November 17, 2022CIT UPC, at the fifth edition of the Open Innovation Forum
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The UPC Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI) is one of the members of the AIRA alliance, which was created to promote scientific research, attract and retain talent, and accelerate the transformation of knowledge into impactful solutions based on artificial intelligence in Catalonia. The Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) are also part of the initiative.
The Artificial Intelligence Research Alliance (AIRA) was presented on 23 November at an event at the Casa de la Convalescència of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). The event was attended by members of the Catalan research ecosystem in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
AIRA’s mission is to strengthen the competitiveness of the Catalan AI research ecosystem by boosting the knowledge industry and projecting Catalonia as a major hub, a leader in southern Europe, in research in this field. Its main objectives are to bring together all the leading research capacity of the Catalan ecosystem, promote high-impact research, attract and retain talent, and promote specialisation in the field of AI.
The alliance is one of the four pillars of the Artificial Intelligence Strategy of Catalonia (Catalonia.AI), which establishes the priorities and lines of action to make Catalonia a hub of innovation, leadership and attraction of talent and companies in the field of artificial intelligence. Within this strategy, AIRA is part of the research and innovation axis: it is a structure to promote synergies and collaborations between groups, institutes, universities and research centres specialised in AI, to promote joint activity at national and international level, and to establish a shared vision of priority objectives in this field in Catalonia.
An alliance open to all groups and research centres in the country
The AIRA initiative has been established as a cooperative workspace where institutes, research centres and AI infrastructures in Catalonia can develop a coordinated strategy to foster scientific research, manage talent and accelerate the development of AI-based solutions in Catalonia.
The alliance is driven by the Government of Catalonia and initially formed by the Computer Vision Centre (CVC), coordinator of the initiative; the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC); the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - National Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS); the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI-CSIC-UPC), and the Institute for Research in Artificial Intelligence (IIIA-CSIC). However, it is open to any institution that is researching artificial intelligence and achieving high levels of excellence in this field.
Related Projects
- Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) have developed a unique infrastructure serving the UPC, research centres and companies for the experimentation and validation of technologies and services using next-generation networks. This platform enables the validation of 5G solutions in real-world scenarios and leads research towards 6G, facilitating technology transfer to the market.
- The AgroTech research group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), together with its spin-off Ugiat Technologies, have driven DoblAI, an AI platform that integrates transcription, translation, subtitling and video dubbing into a single workflow. The solution, which uses deep learning technology and cloned or default voice models, is specifically designed for the journalism and communications sector.
- The inLab FIB at the UPC has collaborated with Lizcore® for the development of a proof of concept based on artificial intelligence to improve safety in climbing with autobelay devices. The system allows the automatic and accurate detection of risk situations before starting a route.
- As part of the DigiPatICS project, eight ICS hospitals have optimised breast cancer diagnosis thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that automate the analysis of tissue samples, enabling earlier and more accurate detection of the disease. The results and diagnoses are shared in real time across the eight centres, thereby forming the largest pathology network in Europe.
