
INESC-ID takes part in the world’s largest consortium on Responsible AI
INESC-ID has been announced as one of the members of the world’s largest consortium on Responsible Artificial Intelligence (Responsible AI).
Led by Unbabel — and including a set of ten other startups, eight research institutes (in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra, amongst them INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, the Champalimaud Foundation and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto), a law firm and five industry leaders across the life sciences, tourism and retail — the Centre for Responsible AI will invest 78 million euros from the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan (Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência, PRR) with the goal of positioning Portugal as a world leader in Responsible AI technologies and regulation.
INESC-ID will participate in the Centre for Responsible AI via eleven of its researchers (some of whom will also integrate the Scientific and Executive Boards of the consortium): Isabel Trancoso, Ana Paiva, Bruno Martins, Helena Moniz, João Paulo Carvalho, Francisco Melo, Paolo Romano, Luísa Coheur, David Matos, Ana Teresa Freitas and Arlindo Oliveira.
With a predicted impact on the Portuguese economy rounding 250 million euros, the Centre for Responsible AI is set to create 210 highly qualified jobs and result in over 130 advanced academic degrees.
As part of its ambitious plan, this consortium will develop twenty-one innovative AI products, leveraging Responsible AI technologies to reduce biases and the potentially negative impact of these applications, fostering their equitable and sustainable use. Exemplifying the groundbreaking reach of the Centre for Responsible AI, one of these products will allow the automatic translation of clinical data, resolving and bypassing current challenges that should, for instance, contribute to the acceleration of clinical trials and the rapid transition of clinically important consumables to the market.
On this world-first Centre for Responsible AI, Paulo Dimas, Vice-President of Innovation at Unbabel, commented that “we are creating what is the biggest Responsible AI consortium in the world. In it, we will develop a virtuous circle between startups and advanced research centers, creating next-generation AI products while positioning Portugal at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence. It was for us an enormous privilege to be able to lead this consortium where some of the brightest minds in Portugal are gathered to invent the future of Artificial Intelligence.”
Upcoming Events
INESC Lisboa 2023 Annual Meeting

On November 3rd will take place the first Meeting of INESC Lx, a consortium of the INESC institutions based in Lisbon: INESC-ID, INOV and INESC MN.
The event will take place at Hotel Golf Mar, in Vimeiro, giving all the participants the opportunity to discuss and share the work being developed at INESC Lx. The agenda includes in the Opening Session the President of the Commission for Regional Development and Coordination of Lisbon and Tagus Valley (CCDR LVT), Teresa Almeida and in the Closing Session the Portuguese Minister of Economy, António da Costa Silva.
If you are a member of INESC Lx you can register here by September 29th.
About INESC Lisboa
INESC Lisboa is a unique research consortium in Portugal, representing INESC-ID, INESC MN and INOV, research institutions in the areas of computer science, electronics and computer engineering, and physics engineering in Lisbon. Its mission is to facilitate synergies among the institutes to promote the Research, Development, and Innovation (R&D+i) made in Portugal.
OLISSIPO Workshop: “Metabolism and mathematical models: Two for a tango”

The 3rd Edition of the workshop “Metabolism and mathematical models: Two for a tango” will take place online on November 14-15, 2023.
The topic of the workshop is metabolism in general. As in the previous cases, a special focus will be placed on parasitology. Besides an exploration of the biological, biochemical and biomedical aspects of metabolism, the workshop will also aim at presenting some of the mathematical modelling, algorithmic theory and software development that have become crucial to explore such aspects.
More details will soon be provided but initial information may be already found here.
Keynote speakers:
- Barbara Bakker (Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
- Igor Cestari (Institute of Parasitology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada)
- Vassily Hatzimanikatis (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Steffen Klamt (Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Magdeburg, Germany)
- Ina Koch (Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
- Laura-Isobel McCall (San Diego State University, US)
Besides the talks given by the above Keynote speakers, there will be two sessions, one per day, of 30 minutes each, dedicated to a discussion of some specific open questions. More details on these will be provided very soon.The workshop will take place in the afternoons, from 2pm to 5:30pm CET time.
Registration is free but is required here.
Olissipo website.