INESC-ID awarded close to €1 million in FCT research funding
INESC-ID has been awarded shy of one million euros in FCT funding from the latest call for research projects, in a spread of Research, Development and Innovation corresponding to over a quarter of the successfully-funded projects across its two relevant evaluation panels.
On 27 July FCT released the results of the 2022 call for R&D projects across all scientific domains. Of the 630 projects selected to share a funding pot of 74,8 million euros, eight involve INESC-ID researchers, with: six projects coordinated by INESC-ID principal investigators, one project co-coordinated by an INESC-ID researcher and another in which INESC-ID researchers will collaborate.
Of the 57 applications deemed eligible for evaluation across the two panels — “Computer and Information Sciences and Informatics” (CISI) and “Electrical and Electronic Engineering” (EEE) — covering the six funded projects coordinated by INESC-ID PIs, only 22 were successful. This means that INESC-ID alone swooped-up 27% of the total number of projects awarded funding across the CISI and EEE panels.
Advancing the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), these eight projects cover two FCT funding modalities (“Scientific research and technological development projects” and “Exploratory projects”), a wide range of topics and six of INESC-ID’s eleven research areas: Distributed, Parallel and Secure Systems (DPSS), Automated Reasoning and Software Reliability (ARSR), Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (AIPS), High Performance Computing Architectures and Systems (HPCAS), Graphics and Interaction (GI), Information and Decision Support Systems (IDSS).
Upcoming Events
Educational Workshop on Responsible AI for Peace and Security (UNODA)
On June 6 and 7, The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are offering a selected group of technical students the opportunity to join a 2-day educational workshop on Responsible AI for peace and security.
The third workshop in the series will be held in Porto Salvo, Portugal, in collaboration with GAIPS, INESC-ID, and Instituto Superior Técnico. The workshop is open to students affiliated with universities in Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Date & Time: June 6 a 7
Where: IST – Tagus Park, Porto Salvo
Registration deadline: April 8
Summary: “As with the impacts of Artificial intelligence (AI) on people’s day-to-day lives, the impacts for international peace and security include wide-ranging and significant opportunities and challenges. AI can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, but its dual-use nature means that peaceful applications can also be misused for harmful purposes such as political disinformation, cyberattacks, terrorism, or military operations. Meanwhile, those researching and developing AI in the civilian sector remain too often unaware of the risks that the misuse of civilian AI technology may pose to international peace and security and unsure about the role they can play in addressing them. Against this background, UNODA and SIPRI launched, in 2023, a three-year educational initiative on Promoting Responsible Innovation in AI for Peace and Security. The initiative, which is supported by the Council of the European Union, aims to support greater engagement of the civilian AI community in mitigating the unintended consequences of civilian AI research and innovation for peace and security. As part of that initiative, SIPRI and UNODA are organising a series of capacity building workshops for STEM students (at PhD and Master levels). These workshops aim to provide the opportunity for up-and-coming AI practitioners to work together and with experts to learn about a) how peaceful AI research and innovation may generate risks for international peace and security; b) how they could help prevent or mitigate those risks through responsible research and innovation; c) how they could support the promotion of responsible AI for peace and security.”