EV4EU’s new website is up: more on the massification of electric vehicles
The EV4EU project (“Electric Vehicles Management for carbon neutrality in Europe”) — a 4-year venture funded by the European Union in 9 million euros through Horizon Europe and coordinated by INESC-ID — has a brand new website!
Detailing how EV4EU will implement user-centric Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) management strategies to create the conditions for the mass deployment of electric vehicles, the consortium’s new website contains a wealth of information and continuous updates on EV4EU’s progress.
Coordinated by Hugo Morais (senior researcher within the Sustainable Power Systems Research Area at INESC-ID and Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico), EV4EU has been keeping busy: from virtual R&D sessions to TECH@WEEK and outreach events such as “Electric You”. The latest EV4EU newsletter is available here (where you can access further details on these and other events).
You can also follow EV4EU through its social media channels: LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
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.”