On March 17–18, 2026, the AI-BOOST project held its general assembly, with the aim of summarizing the second phase of the project and preparing further activities within the project.
AI-BOOST is an EU-funded prominent open challenge prize programme that will serve as a benchmark for the European artificial intelligence (AI) community. The project consortium also includes Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice.
AI-BOOST stands for “Artificial Intelligence for better opportunities and scientific progress towards a trustworthy and human-centric digital environment”. The overall objective of the project is to create and run highly replicable AI open innovation competitions that attracts the outstanding talent all over EU and Associated Countries to drive scientific progress in the major AI Areas.
Following the successful completion of the Large AI Grand Challenge, the consortium is currently launching the Frontier AI Grand Challenge and preparing additional challenges focused on using AI tools to solve significant problems across various sectors of industry and society.
The working meeting was organized by one of the partners—the Cineca Bologna, which operates one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, Leonardo. Its computing resources will also be made available to research teams that succeed in the calls for proposals issued as part of the project.
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